FKA twigs shares intimate video for new single ‘Killer’
nme.comFKA twigs has shared a visualiser for her latest single, ‘Killer’ – watch the “raw and intimate” clip below.Previously described as a song “for baddies with a tear in their eye” by twigs – AKA Tahliah Barnett – she gave ‘Killer’ a live debut as part of NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series last month.The new video, directed by Yoann Lemoine and choreographed by Juliano Nuñes, was shot on Praia de Almagreira beach in Portugal, and also features actor Arón Piper.“Twigs approached me with a beautiful treatment for KILLER that she had written about her personal story,” Lemoine explained. “It felt empowering and vulnerable at the same time.
I said yes instantly when she asked me to direct it. It was the perfect opportunity to portray her in a way that we have not seen before, raw and intimate.“The video is about the poison and the fuel that personal trauma is in art.
How our experience forces us to create and how sometimes it is only inhibition and violence.”Speaking upon the release of ‘Killer’ last month, twigs said: “It’s dangerous to be a woman in love.
When at its worst, the effects of heartbreak can define one’s trajectory much more than the beauty of the love itself, in my song ‘Killer’, I explore this concept.“The navigation, the hunt and the kill.
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