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"Pendulum" is the fifth track on FKA twigs‘ debut full-length album LP1.
FKA twigs released the video for Pendulum via MTV on January 13th, 2015.
twigs discussed the inspiration behind the lyrics and the video in an interview with Triple J:
"'It’s saying, it’s really lonely trying to exceed your expectations when I don’t know what you expect me to be. Within the video, it’s basically about me setting myself free from that, because if someone says to you ‘you’re not good enough,’ and then you believe that, ultimately that’s yourself telling yourself. Because if I said to you (the interviewer)…‘you are a terrible radio presenter’…that would down to you to be like ‘twigs, that’s not nice, that’s not even true’…If someone says something to you and you believe it, that’s your decision. That’s something that I realized–if someone says you’re not good at something, or if someone puts you down, and if you let that get to you, it’s kind of like a harsh way of looking at it, but that’s your fault…That’s what I went through in the creative process when I was working with someone, and just out of the blue, they kind of turned around and they were just like, ‘You know, the quality of your conversation isn’t high enough. You’re not a present enough person; you ask one less question than you should at all times.’ And these were all things that like, I don’t even know what these sentences mean. And that’s a terrible thing to say to people because it’s nothing you can fix, it’s nothing you can really comprehend. Like, what does it mean not to be present enough with a person? It’s like, well, I’m here, I’m looking at you, I’m in your room… And like the Papi Pacify video, (the Pendulum video) is like a physical representation of how I was feeling.'"
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