FKA twigs and Lil Yachty release ‘On Your Mind,’ a Jersey club-influenced post-EUSEXUA single born from a painful visa dispute with former management
FKA twigs released “On Your Mind” featuring Lil Yachty on June 19, 2026, and the context behind it is as unusual as the collaboration itself. The track was produced by Ojivolta, DJH, and Manni Dee, and marks the first new music twigs has released since EUSEXUA, the album that won her a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album earlier this year and anchored the Body High Tour, a full arena run that included headline sets at Madison Square Garden, Coachella, and London’s O2 Arena. “On Your Mind” is not a continuation of EUSEXUA’s sound. It is a signal that something new is beginning.
The song’s origin story is specific. Twigs shared the circumstances via X: she wrote the track with Yachty one evening after a long dance rehearsal, immediately after discovering that her former manager and production team had failed to secure visas in time for her to play Coachella and complete the US leg of the EUSEXUA tour. Rather than shutting down in the face of that news, she went directly into the studio with Yachty and turned the frustration into material.
“It never ceases to amaze me how pain can manifest into the hardest and most euphoric sonics,” she said. “I think making songs like this keeps me on my toes and reminds me that I am not in control.” The track first appeared live at her June 8 show at Paris Adidas Arena, weeks before the official release.
What ‘On Your Mind’ Actually Sounds Like
“On Your Mind” is built around a pulsing Jersey club foundation, a genre framework that suits twigs’ instinct for physical, body-orienting production while pulling the song into territory distinct from anything on EUSEXUA. The beat is more aggressive than atmospheric, carrying a bubblegum bass energy that pushes the track into an almost delirious register. Twigs’ vocals float through the mix with the effortlessness that has always been her most disarming quality: no matter how complex the production architecture, she makes the top of it sound weightless.
Lil Yachty’s guest verse slots into the late-night energy of the track without disrupting it. His contribution arrived as a surprise to some listeners given the stylistic distance from his earlier career, but listeners who followed his more experimental Let’s Start Here period, the 2023 psychedelic rock record that reshaped his critical reputation, will find his melodic instincts here entirely consistent with where he has been heading. The pairing of twigs and Yachty is not random. Both are artists who have spent years deliberately refusing the genre expectations placed on them, and “On Your Mind” is the result of those parallel sensibilities meeting in a specific emotional context.
The Grammy, the Tour, and the New Era
The commercial and critical backdrop behind “On Your Mind” is significant. EUSEXUA earned twigs a Grammy, and the Body High Tour proved she had built an audience capable of sustaining arena-level touring across multiple continents. The visa dispute that spawned “On Your Mind” became public knowledge through her own candid account, and the story of turning that specific grievance into a Grammy-adjacent release moment is the kind of narrative that arrives fully formed. Twigs herself confirmed that the single is intended to “mark the beginning of a new era,” and the distance between EUSEXUA’s sound and what “On Your Mind” suggests is coming next makes that framing credible.
Fan response has been enthusiastic and appropriately divided in the way that the best twigs releases always generate. Album of the Year users scored the track an 83, with commentary specifically noting the Jersey club production as a successful risk rather than a mismatch. For an artist who has spent a decade making music that requires listeners to meet it where it is rather than where they expect it, “On Your Mind” is exactly the kind of opening statement a new era deserves.
