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The Adam Friedland Show

FKA TWIGS Talks Stans, Eusexua, Seduction

04 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

1.482 - 3.186 Adam Friedland

Do you know what the show Seinfeld is?

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3.386 - 3.486 FKA Twigs

Yeah.

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3.506 - 6.132 Adam Friedland

Okay, all right. Have you seen a movie before?

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6.332 - 7.254 FKA Twigs

The movie Seinfeld?

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7.414 - 8.396 Adam Friedland

A movie.

8.416 - 9.719 FKA Twigs

A movie? Yeah. In my life?

9.939 - 16.012 Adam Friedland

I don't know. These thoughts were popping into my head while I was doing research. I was like, she may have not seen a movie before.

16.954 - 18.036 FKA Twigs

Yeah, I've seen a movie before.

18.216 - 20.421 Adam Friedland

Okay, all right. We got that out of the way.

Chapter 2: What insights does FKA Twigs share about her creative process?

379.876 - 391.4 Adam Friedland

We have Anna Wintour. Give it up for her, guys. The devil wears Prada. You got, you tried to make me wear some, some like a poodle jacket before.

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391.42 - 392.261 FKA Twigs

You wanted to wear it.

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392.541 - 393.302 Adam Friedland

I didn't want to wear it.

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393.322 - 394.324 FKA Twigs

I had to prize it off you.

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394.564 - 402.895 Adam Friedland

I just wasn't sure if I was dressed cool enough. Cause you're like a very, you're a fashion, do you consider yourself a fashion icon? No. Are there any days where you just want to dress like shit?

405.158 - 412.628 FKA Twigs

Um, I have, I have this thing called the blues. So I have outfits which are all blue.

413.249 - 414.171 Adam Friedland

Oh, if you're sad?

414.451 - 416.414 FKA Twigs

No, if I just don't want to get dressed the whole hour.

416.434 - 418.738 Adam Friedland

Oh, like Picasso's blues, period.

Chapter 3: How does Twigs describe her experience with fame and fandom?

552.725 - 558.394 FKA Twigs

Well, I mean, it's kind of weird where I grew up because it's quite... It's quite mixed, I would say.

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558.414 - 560.377 Adam Friedland

Like working class and posh?

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560.397 - 571.79 FKA Twigs

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that where I'm from, there's not a lot in the middle. What side were you on? It's like a commuter's town. I was very much working class, but like moonlighting as middle class.

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572.251 - 585.647 Adam Friedland

Because when I first heard of you, you seemed very like highbrow, you know what I mean? And then when I found out you're kind of from like small town, it's like kind of was very like I didn't expect it, right?

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585.712 - 616.446 FKA Twigs

Yeah, well, my parents are from, like, working-class Birmingham. Yeah. I have, like, my biological dad, who is from working-class Birmingham of Jamaican descent. My stepdad, who raised me... like actively till I was 11. He's like second generation from Barbados, like very working class, first black family in a working class area in Birmingham. And my mom's from the black country in Birmingham.

617.047 - 619.954 FKA Twigs

And again, like very just humble, chill beginning.

619.934 - 630.914 Adam Friedland

Yeah. Was there like a notion of class that stuck with you from a young age? Because I know you went to like a boarding school, like a good school, and you were like on scholarship or whatever it's called in England.

631.214 - 652.596 FKA Twigs

Yeah. So when I was 11, my mom just got it into her head that I was going to go to a private school, a Catholic school in Cheltenham. And she basically like coached me to get in. And I did a lot of like tests and throughout my summer holidays to get into this school that had good education. My primary school had said that I wasn't intelligent enough to go to the grammar school.

653.077 - 659.03 FKA Twigs

And so my mom was just like, hell no. And so she basically like coached me through the summer holidays to go to a private school.

Chapter 4: What challenges does FKA Twigs face in the music industry today?

960.168 - 969.902 FKA Twigs

you know, mid to older teenager. And then I went back home and nothing was the same. I was like, I need to make it to a big city, like something can happen for me, but it's not going to happen for me here.

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970.523 - 994.438 Adam Friedland

We're the same. We're the same guy. Seriously. I mean, honestly, I wanted to move to New York so bad. I thought it was nighttime, 24 hours a day. Everyone was the strokes. And I'm like, I'm going to move there. Or I thought it was Seinfeld where like an ugly Jewish guy could get like a really hot girl. And it turns out that that was kind of true.

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994.499 - 995.821 FKA Twigs

Yeah, in New York, for sure.

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995.861 - 996.942 Adam Friedland

Yeah, it's cheating.

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997.703 - 1000.668 FKA Twigs

I think there's a lot more girls than there are men in ratio.

1000.688 - 1002.19 Adam Friedland

There's a lot of gay guys.

1002.288 - 1004.632 FKA Twigs

Oh, is that what it is? I just thought there was more women to men.

1004.812 - 1024.744 Adam Friedland

Yeah, yeah. No, there's like a lot of gay guys, so the straight guys to straight women ratio is, I feel, I mean, it's incredible. It is a place where Costanza could go out with like a Victoria's Secret model. I thought it was just because it was on TV. Do you know what the show Seinfeld is? Yeah. Okay, all right. Have you seen the movie before?

1024.964 - 1025.845 FKA Twigs

The movie Seinfeld?

Chapter 5: How does FKA Twigs define the concept of Eusexua?

1103.093 - 1103.634 FKA Twigs

Oh my gosh, so much.

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1103.654 - 1104.195 Adam Friedland

Did you like it?

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1105.396 - 1112.265 FKA Twigs

I really did. At times I felt very embarrassed by it, but now I'm so grateful. Because there was a lot of like acid jazz, jazz fusion music.

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1112.903 - 1141.425 FKA Twigs

you know non-verbal jazz like people singing scat overbeats or um you know like the scatman song like um you know that song no i don't i was thinking more about like tanya maria oh she's a scatter yeah well one of her well a few tina marie uh tanya maria oh never mind

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1142.823 - 1156.068 Adam Friedland

Did you ever, like, having, like, Caribbean roots and, like, being mixed race, did you ever get into, like, kind of, like, dub or reggae or, like, kind of second wave ska? Did you like the specials?

1156.649 - 1163.903 FKA Twigs

I did, but much later. I love the specials. I love the specials. That was more in my 20s. Like, for me, more in my teens, it was, like, discovering...

1163.883 - 1178.444 FKA Twigs

Bashment and Dancehall and because I grew up in a place called Cheltenham which is very white but then literally like 20 minutes away there's a place called Gloucester which is not only got like an amazing black community but also a Jamaican community.

1178.624 - 1181.989 Adam Friedland

Sound Clash? You went to like like dub and reggae?

1182.37 - 1189.62 FKA Twigs

No there was a club there called the Jamaican Club and it was when Dancehall and Bashment was huge and I remember going to that when I was 16.

Chapter 6: How does Twigs connect her personal experiences to her art?

1217.075 - 1225.311 FKA Twigs

They were like 16, 17. But I'd always done stuff with her and all of my white friends in Cheltenham. You know, like whatever they wanted to do.

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1225.391 - 1226.013 Unknown

They partied.

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1226.433 - 1232.926 FKA Twigs

Yeah, like go, I don't know, do stuff that my white friends wanted to do, like go to a skate park or... Celebrate Easter.

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1234.75 - 1238.574 Adam Friedland

No, I mean, they liked that. What do you mean?

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1238.874 - 1239.074 FKA Twigs

I'm sorry.

1239.094 - 1239.975 Adam Friedland

I'm not being mean.

1239.995 - 1246.16 FKA Twigs

No, I mean, like, talk about, like, getting a Tony and Guy haircut or get GHDs. What is that? Well, exactly. What is that?

1246.301 - 1249.764 Adam Friedland

I don't understand. I don't know what these white people are up to. Nor do I. Yeah, yeah.

1250.064 - 1251.485 FKA Twigs

No, like... Is that what they do?

Chapter 7: What role does sensuality play in FKA Twigs' performances?

1343.092 - 1344.234 FKA Twigs

This is basically pre-internet.

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1344.555 - 1345.678 Adam Friedland

What was it? Like Riot Grrrl?

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1346.159 - 1352.636 FKA Twigs

It wasn't my band. It was kind of like my friend's band, and I would be like the additional backing singer in the band.

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1352.656 - 1353.578 Adam Friedland

You were like the bez?

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1354.52 - 1355.841 FKA Twigs

I don't know the best.

1355.901 - 1359.745 Adam Friedland

The guy in Happy Mondays with the tambourine?

Chapter 8: What is Twigs' perspective on the evolution of music and art?

1360.005 - 1365.27 FKA Twigs

No, I was the backing singer, so I'd do additional screaming, I guess.

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1365.67 - 1367.732 Unknown

Really? Oh, so you didn't play any instruments?

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1368.372 - 1372.816 FKA Twigs

No, I would scream to double his screaming.

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1373.557 - 1374.938 Adam Friedland

Oh, it was a guy who was making you scream?

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1375.199 - 1375.479 FKA Twigs

Yeah.

1376.019 - 1378.382 Adam Friedland

Was it a guy-girl band, or you were the only girl?

1378.842 - 1382.265 FKA Twigs

No, I was the only girl, but I was an addition. I wasn't the main one.

1382.397 - 1387.746 Adam Friedland

You were weird but popular. That's my new decision about you. I was... She was cool.

1388.127 - 1388.548 FKA Twigs

I can tell.

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