RIP Twiglight: A look back at FKA Twigs and Robert Pattinson being hot together
Plus, Anwar Hadid!
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Before we move on to our main event, I need bring up an extremely important story that I do not think has gotten NEARLY enough attention.
Is Anwar Hadid an Air Pod thief?
A man named Brian Clarke accused Hadid of stealing his Air Pod. According to Clarke, a single Air Pod likely fell out of a hole in his jacket, and the find my iPhone feature directed him to Hadid and a friend. Hadid had an Air Pod in his ear, but denied acquiring the single Air Pod by dishonest means, however, Clarke’s app instructed him to follow Hadid and the Air Pod across the streets of London and eventually an altercation broke out.
My official verdict is that Dua Lipa’s boyfriend is not an Air Pod thief, but possibly gross enough to find a stranger’s single Air Pod in public and actually put it in his ears.
Now we will discuss my favorite (dearly departed) celebrity couple of all time, Robert Pattinson and FKA Twigs, because they are both hot and good.
A timeline:
August 2014
FKA Twigs releases her first full length album, the extremely good LP1, following two critically acclaimed EPs and work as a backup dancer for artists like Kylie Minogue. That same month, she and RPatz are first photographed together in New York after being introduced by a mutual friend. Some sources say Florence Welch and some claim it was Tom Sturridge.
Source: Young Turks
September 2014
The couple are officially dating and E! News (correctly, though um why?) declares that she was a cute baby.
Everything is great, right? Well, no. Once his fans got wind of the new couple, she started receiving abusive, racist messages online like clockwork.
And so the work she created before she even met him was introduced to the masses in the context of their relationship. I didn’t remember that news of their relationship broke right when her album came out. I just remember finding out they were dating and seeing him in a new light, because she is the coolest person on the planet.
RPatz is still best known for Twilight, but in 2014, there really wasn’t much else of note on his resume. Does anyone remember what Water for Elephants is about? He did a couple flop David Cronenberg movies as his first foray into the sort of unhinged performance he now specializes in, but they were still flop David Cronenberg movies. No disrespect to Julianne Moore.
The relationship coincided directly with him figuring out who he was as an artist. In the next year, Rob seems to be taking a new approach to getting the roles he wants. He saw a still of the Sadfie Brothers' then unreleased movie, Heaven Knows What, online and sent them “a romantic/psychotic email about how he felt deeply connected to [them] just by having seen a still on Indiewire.”
I recommend watching Jennifer Lopez and Robert Pattinson interview each other, primarily because you get to see her call him Bobby. But there’s another thing curious about this exchange:
Source: Variety
So…he was trying to play a ballet dancer while dating Twigs…an accomplished dancer.
December 2014
Twigs takes RPatz along to Miami, where she is performing at Art Basel. People reports that they are cute and, curiously, that Scout Willis is “notable.”
Source: People
April 1 2015
T Pain accidentally reveals that Twigs is engaged to “ol’ Patty” in an interview before immediately backtracking and insisting it was an April Fool’s joke. K!
Source: Vulture
Shortly after this alleged prank, People confirms they are engaged based on “sources close to the couple,” but neither’s reps get back to them. She is seen wearing a ring that many speculate to be an engagement ring, but some sources claim they gave each other “promise rings” as a sign of serious commitment.
April 2015
Twigs and ol’ Patty reach a celebrity couple milestone and attend Coachella together. She performs and he is fortunate enough to watch.
May 2015
The couple makes their first official red carpet appearance together at the Met Gala. They look incredible, and her Christopher Kane dress with testicles is one of my all time favorite Met Gala looks.
She is wearing the “promise ring” and yep, a lot of outlets posted zoomed in thumbnails of her hand!
At some point in all of this, they begin living together in LA with her dog, Solo.
September 2015
RPatz (finally and correctly) speaks out against his “fans” spewing gross, racist shit against Twigs in an interview with NME. He also offered this bit of wisdom, “I think it’s because most normal people are not commenters – I’ve never met anyone who’s left a comment on anything. It’s just demons who live in basements.”
May 2016
Twigs and Rob pet a dog.
May 2017
Twigs and Rob make their last public appearance together at Cannes for the premiere of Good Time :(
July 2017
Robert describes his relationship status as “kind of” engaged on the Howard Stern show after the host’s prodding.
BREAKUP
At some point in late summer 2017, they officially end things. Bobby attends the New York premiere of Good Time alone in August and Twigs is spotted on vacation without him. I am more sad about it than I should be.
WHERE R WE NOW
magdalene is out! FKA Twig’s divine sophomore record deals with the scrutiny of their relationship and debilitating health problems stemming from fibroids in her uterus through the lens of the Biblical figure. “‘An incredible woman who was always in the shadow of a man. I can relate,” she told The Guardian. I’m not going to write a review of it here, but I urge you to listen to this utterly sublime record if you haven’t already!
Rob is dating model/actress Suki Waterhouse, which is boring to me EXCEPT for that time when she and Bradley Cooper were “dating” and they read Lolita in the park for the cameras. He’s gonna be the Batman, The Lighthouse is in theaters now and I liked it.
My intention in writing this is not to define Twigs by this or any relationship. In fact, I think going through the timeline of their relationship pretty clearly indicates that she was an artist with a clear point of view when she met Robert, and being with her helped him figure out how to make the work he was meant to. He just had to deal with a lot less bullshit than she did to get there.
k bye, love trasha