FKA twigs: "Two Weeks"

If last year’s enchanting “Water Me” found FKA twigs at her most doe-eyed and mystical, and elegant stomper “Papi Pacify” was the UK singer in a mood of vulnerable desperation, then her latest single, a beguilingly straight-laced cut of silken R&B, is a commanding blast of raw sexual power. Like the anonymous goddess she portrays in her Nabil-directed video for “Two Weeks”, FKA twigs is larger than life here, knocking on the doors of great contemporary pop singers—Ciara, Mariah, and even Aaliyah, to name a few—with her breathy falsetto and magnetic presence.

But she’s not calling them out; this is a song purely about lust, sex, and ecstasy delivered with the subtlety of a dime-store romance novel (“My thighs are apart for when you’re ready to breathe in”) and sumptuous bombast that could double as a Love King outtake. No, instead she lets the innate charisma of “Two Weeks” do the talking. If FKA twigs doesn’t get the respect she deserves from earthly residents, her exquisite brand of uncanny pop will certainly find a warm welcome on other planes of reality.

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