Christine and the Queens - Chris '2018

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EDITORS’ NOTES
“I wanted to write an album that could give justice to being someone
complex in the pop world,” the surging French star sometimes known as
Héloïse Letissier tells Apple Music. “Pop music is so much recently
about trying to simplify narratives, and I was trying to complexify mine.
Christine is really me taking your shirt and talking to you really up close. I
just want to make sure you actually meet me.”

If you have not yet made her acquaintance, you are about to: Her second album
under the name Christine and the Queens takes her alter ego a step further with
a bolder, more androgynous iteration named Chris. “The first album was
born out of the frustration of being an aberration in society, because I was a
young queer woman,” she says. “The second was really born out of the
aberration I was becoming, which was a powerful woman—being lustful and
horny and sometimes angry, and craving for this will to just own everything a
bit more and apologize a bit less.”

While the new album, also named Chris, undoubtedly works as an exploration of
identity and sexuality and power—and as self-aware performance art worthy
of touchstones like David Bowie and Laurie Anderson—it is also a
supremely danceable collection of synth-pop confections that never gets
overwhelmed by its messages. “Doesn’t matter” makes something
as heavy as questioning the existence of God feel weightless;
“Girlfriend,” featuring LA producer/DJ Dâm-Funk, likewise aims
for both the hips and the head. “I don’t feel like a girlfriend,
but I’ll be your lover,” she says. “The song is basically me
trying to steal a bit from the patriarchy. It’s purely empowering out of
defiance and wittiness.”

That flair for the dramatic comes naturally to Letissier. “I wanted to be
a stage director before I became a pop performer, and writing a record is kind
of like staging a huge play in my head,” she says. “This is a
mysterious job I have.”

Tracklist:
1.01 | Christine and the Queens - Comme si on saimait
1.02 | Christine and the Queens feat. DāM-FunK - Damn, dis-moi
1.03 | Christine and the Queens - La Marcheuse
1.04 | Christine and the Queens - Doesnt Matter (Voleur de soleil)
1.05 | Christine and the Queens - 5 dols
1.06 | Christine and the Queens - Goya ! Soda !
1.07 | Christine and the Queens - Follarse
1.08 | Christine and the Queens - Machin-chose
1.09 | Christine and the Queens - Bruce est dans le brouillard
1.10 | Christine and the Queens - Le G
1.11 | Christine and the Queens - Les Yeux mouillés
1.12 | Christine and the Queens - LÉtranger (Voleur deau)
2.01 | Christine and the Queens - Comme si
2.02 | Christine and the Queens feat. DāM-FunK - Girlfriend
2.03 | Christine and the Queens - The Walker
2.04 | Christine and the Queens - Doesnt Matter
2.05 | Christine and the Queens - 5 Dollars
2.06 | Christine and the Queens - Goya Soda
2.07 | Christine and the Queens - Damn (What Must a Woman Do)
2.08 | Christine and the Queens - Whats-Her-Face
2.09 | Christine and the Queens - Feel So Good
2.10 | Christine and the Queens - Make Some Sense
2.11 | Christine and the Queens - The Stranger

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