Childlike Things

Album: Eusexua (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Childlike Things" is a 2025 track by FKA Twigs featuring North West, the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, recorded for her album Eusexua. Playful and steeped in nostalgia, the song explores themes of innocence, creativity, and resisting the cynicism of adulthood. Twigs originally penned the lyrics at age 13, making the pre-teen North's appearance a fitting echo of the song's celebration of childlike wonder.
  • While Eusexua is largely a club-pop affair, Childlike Things steps sideways into bubblegum territory, pairing airy, nostalgic vocals with a feature nobody saw coming.

    "I thought it felt only right to me that it had like a young spirit on the song," Twigs explained in an Instagram video.
  • The hook references Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, which Twigs adored as a child. Back then, she dreamed about stardom and "being around people that are eccentric and big thinkers."
  • North West delivers her guest verse entirely in Japanese. Translated, it's a mix of personal introduction and devotional statement.

    Hello, my name is North
    From California to Tokyo
    Jesus the King
    Praise God
    Jesus is the only true God
    Jesus is the one and only true God (You need to know)"
  • This is North's first major release without her father, though she'd already appeared on Ye's Vultures 1 track "Talking" and Vultures 2 cut "Bomb," which also features her younger sister, Chicago West. Twigs previously crossed paths with Ye on Ty Dolla $ign's 2020 single "Ego Death" alongside Skrillex.
  • Alongside Twigs and North, the other writers are:

    Koreless (Lewis Roberts), a Welsh electronic musician with a taste for the experimental
    Ojivolta, the bi-coastal producer duo of Mark Williams and Raul Cubina
    Jeff Bhasker, Mike Chapman, and Simon Pilton rounding out the team
  • Twigs said the song resurfaced while she was in the studio with Koreless and her friends: "They start playing this bassline, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I just heard a song. It just came into my head."

    Grabbing the mic, the opening verse spilled out instinctively. "They were like, 'Did you just make that up?' And I said, no, that's something I wrote when I was a kid."

    In that moment, while she was on the mic in the studio, the words of the song's opening verse came tripping out of her mouth. "They were like, 'Did you just do that?' And I was like, no, that's a song I wrote when I was a kid," she said.
  • London-based photographer and videographer Jordan Hemingway directed the video, and the script was written by playwright Jeremy O. Harris. It leans into a meta-narrative about creative freedom and battling industry expectations. Filmaker Kevin Smith and influencer Jake Shane cameo as record executives who just don't get it. Twigs responds by calling in North, who provides a bold, childlike, creative voice.

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