Eusexua

FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

When I asked about Charli XCX’s “BRAT” and Beyoncé’s “Renaissance”—two of the biggest club albums of the past several years, each backed by expensive arena tours and hefty production budgets—she distanced herself from those records, calling them “brilliant” but “commercial.” Where they had borrowed from some of the same scenes, she told me, “ ‘Eusexua’ was born from a crevice of subculture.” (Reconciling her celebrity status with her genuine desire to be immersed in—and regarded as—part of the underground can be a challenge.