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[SHORT SHOTS OF SOUND] FKA twigs- Glass And Patron (Music Video Analysis)

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My pussy isn’t yours. Hands may traipse their way down my sternum. Might lead you to the promise land like a rope ladder. Rung by rung your expectation grows. Fuck me, I can hear your gasps through the screen. My fingers may flick sensually down my skin. Reach my vagina and I forget about you. Masturbate. Forget about you. Staring there. Can’t forget about you. It’s all about you. A spectacle for a 1000 spectators in my own life.

This should be all about me. My fun. My jollification. But no, it’s all about reaffirming your sexual power, dude. Do you like that I’m doing this pregnant? It’s not yours. Still, fertility drips like sweat over my breasts. Does that make you feel like a real man? The camera guided you down, gave you an eye to ‘gaze’ at me from.

To control me.
To define me as slut.goodgirl.libertine.angel.wanton.

You know. I know. This music video, like all music videos, was made for the straight male to view.

That’s where FKA twigs says ‘fuck that’; and reclaims the narrative of her vagina. Of a woman’s, of a trans person’s, of a queer person’s, of even–yes–a straight man’s control of their own self-satisfaction. The Male Gaze is what she’s subverting. It’s the undeniable phenomenon of the camera in all your favorite mediums (movies, music vids, TV, oh wherever the lens may peek) of automatically assuming a straight male is your target audience. Men are the watchers, women the watched. What men want of women, what patriarchy grants them by nature of their hetero-inclined penises, happens on the other side of the camera. Women view themselves, define who they are, by what’s ok for them to do when the director counts down 3. 2. 1. Action. And they’re disciplined and punished when they fall outside it.

Action. I’m masturbating for you. Was I lost in myself? Yes? Slut.
Action. Did I subvert my pleasure? Take myself out of the moment? For you, man at home. Good girl.
Action Was I coquettish? Naive? Needing your guidance for my own sexy times? Angel.

1, 2, 3…
Now hold that pose for me
I wait all week for a moment’s
Break away from being told who I am
Am I dancing sexy yet?
Are you watching me cause I move alone?

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In ‘Glass and Patron” FKA twigs does more than subvert the male gaze. She blows it the fuck up and creates a queer gaze, a queer space. It’s a tradition that Gaga started with ‘Alejandro’, and Grimes attempted in ‘Genesis’. Stepping behind the camera, FKA twigs literally impregnates the screen with art.

Jarring music signals an end to male dominance, hegemony. She looks straight at the camera; and births a queer revolution right out her vagina. The handkerchiefs she pulls out one by one are a wink and a nod to the Hanky Code that defined the many, many ways gay men let each other know what turned them on. It’s a panoply of options, for a panoply of queer people who all come from her birth canal.

Birthed. In this queer space they are here.

To dance sexy. To meet your gaze head-on. Unapologetically. To dance like no one’s watching. Because no one is. Except to admire. Their fierceness. Their sexiness. This time with consent. Queer spaces, a queer gaze doesn’t desexualize them. It unearths. Moves on the dancefloor. Moves inside their heads. Moves later inside the bedroom. That come with being free. To be you. Liberated to use your body, under the camera’s gaze as it coaxes you. To shake your ass like a siren call to whomever, or how many whomevers you want. No judgments.

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