“Eusexua”: Beyond Love, a Transcending Hymn to Life by FKA twigs

It’s not a simple song. “Eusexua” by FKA twigs is a whole human experience born out of pleasure, excitement, and rave culture.

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Don’t call it love, call it eusexua.

That feeling of freedom, an inebriating (and sexual) euphoria that can present itself while dancing in a club or doing something exciting for the first time. When we talk about “eusexua,” it must be declared that this is not just a song (and a future album) by Fka twigs. It is the return to life, ambrosia injected into the veins. What comes closest to the definition of feeling like a deity, probably.

Wonder how you feel
Wonder how you feel
Words cannot describe, baby
This feeling deep inside

King-sized, I’m vertical sunrised
Like flying capsized
Free, I see you are
Eusexua
Do you feel alone?
You’re not alone
And if they ask you, say you feel it
But don’t call it love, Eusexua (Eusexua)

Wonder if you see
Wonder if you see
The way that we transcribe it, baby
Can change the course of time

The muse for this pulsating sound is the rave culture in Prague. Musically speaking, it’s not something you’d normally expect from a club (basically nothing like Brat was). “Eusexua” is a continuous tension, a climax that does not explode but does not stop rising. Only toward the end does the beat seem to have stopped, but the effect achieved is the exact opposite. Twigs describes having been on the edge of something greater than before, to which she is happy to be able to give a name. She and the listener are now in a totalizing ascension, they (we) have understood what it means to truly experience eusexua. And it’s up to us to spread the message, that heaven on earth is indeed there. It’s not mere hedonism, but a hymn to life.

King-sized, I’m vertical sunrised
Like flying capsized
Free, I see you are
Eusexua
Do you feel alone? (Lost out at sea)
You’re not alone (Under the stars)
Do you feel alone?
You’re not alone
And if they ask you, say you feel it
But don’t call it love, Eusexua (Eusexua)
Do you feel alone?
No, you’re not alone
And if they ask you, say you feel it
But don’t call it love, Eusexua

People always told me that I take my love too far
Then refused to help me
I was on the edge of something greater than before
But nobody told me
Eusexua

All this, then, with Eartheater’s transcendental vocals on twigs’ “Do You Feel Alone?” – the verses of a siren reminding the listener that no, they’re not alone.

They may have music, a loved one, even their own body and emotions to keep them company. As shown in the music video, escaping from everyday reality is a duty and a pleasure. We are not destined to succumb to the gray reality of work and boredom. Because we are creatures, human beings endowed with free will, souls capable of creating art and enjoying it, souls capable of loving and feeling as one, in the name of music or any other passion.

Souls capable of feeling Eusexua.

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 © Jordan Hemingway

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