FKA Twigs Dances for Inmate on Death Row in Creepy New Clip

1 November 2014 | 11:00 am | Pilerats
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26 year-old British musician FKA Twigs makes creepy video about sex and death.. Prior to FKA Twigs’ success as a solo artist, she worked as a dancer in other artists’ videos. Now, she’s come full circle, starring in her own videos – that are undoubtedly several times more f*&cked up than any of the stuff she was in the background for. The 26 year old experimental priestess directly references her own history in her new clip for Video Girl, a track off her recent LP1 release (sings Twigs in the song: "is she the girl from the video?"). The video is shot in black and white and has a sombre mood that perfectly matches Twigs' ethereal, twisted R&B - it features FKA dancing for a prisoner on death row – she writhes around him sexily, and jerks her body in the corner, as he is laid out on his back, and a euthanasia injection is being pumped through his veins. The clip is more suggestive than fixed in terms of its narrative – FKA could potentially be a figment of his imagination, his last dit