After weeks of teasing, FKA twigs premiered the music video for her new single, "Predictable Girl". The song is featured on her upcoming album Afterglow, a successor to January's release of Eusexua, coming out this Friday, November 14 via Atlantic.
Watch/listen to "Predictable Girl" below:
The new music video was directed by Jordan Hemingway, twigs' long-time collaborator and boyfriend.
The avant-pop artist initially planned to release this song last Friday, teasing to fans on her social media with a video still on October 28. But, despite the song title, her rollout for Afterglow has been anything but predictable. The project has evolved in the few months of its promotion, transforming from a Eusexua addendum into a fully realized, standalone concept, as reported on UPROXX. (Remember the Eusexua-channeling single "Perfectly"? That's not on Afterglow anymore.) The drop of "Predictable Girl" follows suit, with the video premiering today, the Tuesday before Afterglow's release.
Fans online are speculating the involvement of generative AI in the final animated section of the "Predictable Girl" music video. It's true that FKA twigs is open to using similar technology, as she announced in 2024 that she and her team made a deepfake clone of herself and planned to incorporate it in her art, per TIME. (The "FKA World" credit might be reference to that, as she's been using that kind of language to describe the immersive visual and musical arts experience she aimed to create for Eusexua. It also doesn't appear in previous videos, where generative AI was neither present nor suggested.)
Moreover, animators are not explicitly credited in the caption of the video; 2D compositors — people who blend the series of animated slides together for seamless video footage — are.
However, the use of generative AI in the "Predictable Girl" music video is still unconfirmed.
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