Twist (Goldfrapp song)

{{Short description|2003 song by Goldfrapp}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Twist

| cover = Twist cd1.jpg

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| border = yes

| type = single

| artist = Goldfrapp

| album = Black Cherry

| B-side = Yes Sir

| released = {{Start date|2003|11|3|df=yes}}{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=29|date=1 November 2003}}

| recorded =

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| genre = Electropop{{cite magazine |last=Lynskey |first=Dorian |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=753 |title=Goldfrapp: Black Cherry |magazine=Blender |issue=16 |date=May 2003 |page=119 |access-date=21 April 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504145742/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=753 |archive-date=4 May 2006|quote=...the kohl-eyed electropop of "Twist" resembles Garbage trawling the red-light district.}}

| length = 3:32

| label = Mute

| writer = {{hlist|Alison Goldfrapp|Will Gregory}}

| producer = {{hlist|Alison Goldfrapp|Will Gregory}}

| prev_title = Strict Machine

| prev_year = 2003

| next_title = Black Cherry

| next_year = 2004

}}

"Twist" is a song by English electronic music duo Goldfrapp from their second studio album, Black Cherry (2003). It was released on 3 November 2003 as the album's third single. The song received positive reviews from music critics and was a minor success in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 31 on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, the single reached number 18 on Billboard{{'}}s Hot Dance Singles Sales chart.

In an interview with New Beats, Alison Goldfrapp described the genesis of the song:

It's a sort of sexual fantasy that I had about a boy who worked at the fairground, who I lusted after. He was in control and I wasn't cause I was sat on the waltzer and he was the one that was spinning it around and—I don't know—it's sort of lust, adolescent, awakening, smells and noise and dirt. That's what "Twist" is about.[http://goldfrapp.free.fr/php/home.php?N=2&id=814&year=03 "Beats & Lust"], New Beats, April 2003.