‘It Felt Really Dangerous,’ says Fka Twigs, on her new single ‘Honda’ featuring Pa Salieu. Twigs tells Rolling Stone, “I adore the idea that people are furious about how short they are because that’s the whole point.”
Fka Twigs is introducing fans into the visual realm of her album three months after releasing her mixtape Caprisongs. The singer debuted the abridged visual for her hit “Honda,” which features Pa Salieu, with Rolling Stone on Friday.
Twigs took the “Honda” motifs to the extreme for the dark, dub-meets-Afrobeats track’s imagery, as she was “tied front first onto a pole just zooming down the motorway.”
“Yolo, it’s simply anything to get the shot for me.” Aiden Zamiri has been amazing to work with; he’s a genius,” she tells Rolling Stone. “For me, ‘Honda’ is the epitome of a caprivid because it’s incredibly short and sassy, and it leaves you wanting more.”
The video is intended to be “a tiny flash shot into my world, into my London, and into who I am,” according to Twigs. The singer has been releasing these short, layered visuals for several of the album’s main songs since it was released in January. She released one for “Papi Bones” last week, in which she can be seen dancing and thrusting on a motorcycle inside a little house.
“Making these shorts or caprivids is like a hole punch of your favorite scenes from a music video, nothing more, nothing less,” says the filmmaker. “It’s like sorbet, where you just keep wanting more and more,” she explains. (Caprivids are “mini music videos constructed with minimal time and resources,” according to Urban Dictionary.) “I love it when people get irritated about how short they are because that’s exactly the point.”
Caprisongs included songs like the Weeknd’s “Tears in the Club,” Daniel Caesar’s “Careless,” and Jorja Smith and Unknown T’s “Darjeeling.” The album was her first full-length release since Magdalene in 2019.
