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Album: FKA twigs - “Melissa” [EP]
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FKA twigs - “Melissa” [EP]
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Besides leaving media obligations in the dust for a week to record EP3, twigs had new subject matter to get off her chest. She’d been thinking about the next stage of her womanhood, post-LP1, which largely reflected on a torturous relationship with an ex-boyfriend. “It’s a lot to do with more openly female energy, and things that affect that balance. That’s why I wanted to be pregnant in the video,” she said in London of EP3 and “Glass & Patron.” Here in Los Angeles, she gets deeper. “The EP is called Melissa, and ‘Melissa’ to me is my personal female energy. I’ve never called it ‘Melissa’ before the EP. It’s not a weird alter ego. It’s just my way of separating it from myself,” she says.
When discussing “Figure 8” twigs cites honing in on her “Melissa,” with the help of voguing and her vogue friends. “Voguing has helped me grow into the best young lady that I can be at this time,” she says. “Through these boys”—the dancers—“I’ve learned to embrace parts of my femininity that I wasn’t in touch with before,” she adds, before explaining that Jamel Prodigy (who was in “Glass & Patron”) taught her about everything in vogue being a figure eight. She demonstrates to me for about a minute, rapidly doing the gestures around her face and proving how they draw attention to one’s expression: “LOOK at my face, LOOK at my face, LOOK at my face,” she says. “Look at how powerful I am, look at how beautiful I am, look at how confident I am.”
With the exception of “Glass & Patron,” the other songs on EP3 explore twigs’ still more vulnerable side. She wrote the explicit “I’m Your Doll” when she was 18 (“Wind me up/I’m your doll/Dress me up/I’m your doll/Love me rough/I’m your doll”). Though her new interpretation of the song is about not being anyone’s doll, she remains shocked by the reason she wrote something so submissive and far from who she is today: “I realized that I’d been brainwashed and preconditioned to write a pop song and write it from that point of view.” She wrote “In Time” after EP1 came out, a song about “wanting and aching” for the person you’re in a relationship with to change, and in time, you’ll both become the best versions of yourselves.
Then there’s “Mother Creep,” which she describes as an “apology.”
“[It’s about] the time when you realize that when you were 15, you didn’t know everything.” For her, she says it’s also about “understanding*— through becoming the alpha female in my household now—how the other alpha female in my life did things.”
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Article says it will be rolling out over the next two months. Article was turned in in April, which means it’s coming this month.
http://www.complex.com/covers/fka-tw..._medium=social
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The link ain't working for me.
Not her messing up her titling scheme though. 
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hruoehgoGNosfofm OMG 
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Sounds very pretentious  . I hope her team didn't write that lol
BUT I AM EXCITED
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OMG
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Besides leaving media obligations in the dust for a week to record EP3, twigs had new subject matter to get off her chest. She’d been thinking about the next stage of her womanhood, post-LP1, which largely reflected on a torturous relationship with an ex-boyfriend. “It’s a lot to do with more openly female energy, and things that affect that balance. That’s why I wanted to be pregnant in the video,” she said in London of EP3 and “Glass & Patron.” Here in Los Angeles, she gets deeper. “The EP is called Melissa, and ‘Melissa’ to me is my personal female energy. I’ve never called it ‘Melissa’ before the EP. It’s not a weird alter ego. It’s just my way of separating it from myself,” she says.
When discussing “Figure 8” twigs cites honing in on her “Melissa,” with the help of voguing and her vogue friends. “Voguing has helped me grow into the best young lady that I can be at this time,” she says. “Through these boys”—the dancers—“I’ve learned to embrace parts of my femininity that I wasn’t in touch with before,” she adds, before explaining that Jamel Prodigy (who was in “Glass & Patron”) taught her about everything in vogue being a figure eight. She demonstrates to me for about a minute, rapidly doing the gestures around her face and proving how they draw attention to one’s expression: “LOOK at my face, LOOK at my face, LOOK at my face,” she says. “Look at how powerful I am, look at how beautiful I am, look at how confident I am.”
With the exception of “Glass & Patron,” the other songs on EP3 explore twigs’ still more vulnerable side. She wrote the explicit “I’m Your Doll” when she was 18 (“Wind me up/I’m your doll/Dress me up/I’m your doll/Love me rough/I’m your doll”). Though her new interpretation of the song is about not being anyone’s doll, she remains shocked by the reason she wrote something so submissive and far from who she is today: “I realized that I’d been brainwashed and preconditioned to write a pop song and write it from that point of view.” She wrote “In Time” after EP1 came out, a song about “wanting and aching” for the person you’re in a relationship with to change, and in time, you’ll both become the best versions of yourselves.
Then there’s “Mother Creep,” which she describes as an “apology.”
“[It’s about] the time when you realize that when you were 15, you didn’t know everything.” For her, she says it’s also about “understanding*— through becoming the alpha female in my household now—how the other alpha female in my life did things.”
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y did she not name it EP3
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omg yas is there a release date? I need to hear ASAP
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When is it out tho?
Edit: So there is In Time, I'm Your Doll, Figure 8 and Glass & Patron?
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YAS!
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I hope this comes this month 
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Ho, I came here for EP3.
Bye Melissa.
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Wait, she broke up with Rob Pattinson? 
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Wait, she broke up with Rob Pattinson? |
Well, she says she's in an amazing relationship, so I presume they are still together (and I am rooting for them).
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“But ultimately, I’m in an amazing relationship. So it doesn’t matter.”
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