You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
FKA Twigs is a singer, songwriter, and producer from London.
She's released three EPs and two albums.
Her most recent album, Magdalene,
came out in 2019 and was named one of the best albums of the year by Rolling Stone,
Pitchfork, Time, NME, and more.
For this episode, Twiggs chose the song Mirrored Heart from that album.
She wrote and produced it in Los Angeles with a few collaborators,
but it's an intensely personal song.
This is FKA Twigs.
The lyric mirrored heart was something that I had had written in my phone for a while.
I'd heard the saying that your greatest love will be somebody who will truly reflect who you aspire to be and can mirror.
It doesn't mean that you have to do the same thing or like the same things.
It's more to do with like morals or like a kind of deeper understanding of life or sort of human values.
Somebody who's going to give what you give, put in what you put in.
It's like an equal meeting of two loves.
I write a lot of things down.