FKA Twigs on why she asked North West to feature on “meta” ‘Childlike Things’: “That energy is so inspiring”

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FKA Twigs has explained why she asked North West to feature on her recent track ‘Childlike Things’, saying her “energy is inspiring”.The musician released her critically acclaimed third studio album ‘EUSEXUA’ in January and it included ‘Childlike Things’ in its tracklist, a collaboration with the 11-year-old daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.North delivers a verse in Japanese on the track, and now Twigs has spoken about the decision to collaborate with her in a video posted on Instagram.“I was working on ‘EUSEXUA’, I was working on my album, and then I was in the studio one day with Lewis [Roberts, aka Koreless] and my friends, and they start playing this bassline, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I just heard a song,” she said. “It just came into my head.”FKA twigs explains why she asked North West to feature on her album, ‘EUSEXUA.’ pic.twitter.com/Ds2viE43x6— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 21, 2025She then says that in that moment, while she was on the mic in the studio, the words of the song’s opening verse came tripping out of her mouth. “They were like, ‘Did you just do that?’ And I was like, no, that’s a song I wrote when I was a kid.”Twigs went on to explain that she was a fan of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are as a child, which is also referenced in the song’s lyrics, and the song she had written when she was younger was about her dreams of being a star and being “around people that are eccentric and big thinkers”.As she developed the song, she said, her label requested that it include a feature. “Really, it needs that childlike energy,” she said, agreeing with her label’s assertion.