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FKA twigs has returned with new music: her first since 2019's breathtaking MAGDALENE. A collaboration with Headie One and Fred again.., 'Don't Judge Me' is a moving mash-up between twigs' ethereal pop and the powerful flow of Headie One. With a beautiful video, it's a celebration of Blackness and a plea for change to come faster.

In the impeccably-choreographed video for the single, Twigs battles an invisible force, sent back again and again to the chair she tries to leave. In the epilogue to the visuals, a Black man can be seen struggling against an invisible arrest.

The video also features Kara Walker's Fons Americanus statue, which was recently showed at London's TATE Modern. 

Spot in the video: Clara Amfo, Munroe Bergdorf, poet Solomon O.B and Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race author Reni Eddo-Lodge. The song follows the 'Judge Me' interlude from Headie One's 2020 GANG release.

Directed by Black Is King creator Emmanuel Adjei, the video was explained thus: "Having the enormous Victorian-inspired fountain Fons Americanus by visual artist Kara Walker—depicting the historical, sorrowful story of slavery and colonization—as our setting, and particularly as the spirit of the film, this important monument creates another layer of depth and meaning to an invisible yet shared history," he commented.

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