The artist renamed Christine and the Queens, now in the masculine gender, returns with a new album where Madonna puts her voice, served by an impressive show on the roads.
Forgot the confusing alias Redcar chosen in mid-November 2022 for a record release, the lovely starsIt went a bit unnoticed. And that it was only the prologue in French to a continuation in English, Paranoia, angels, true lovemore seductive and that comes out this Friday.
the lovely stars it had been preceded by two concerts at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, configuring a visceral and overloaded performance, destined for the most fanatical.
As a prelude to Paranoia, angels, true lovethe pop singer performed at the Californian Coachella festival in April and especially at the French Art Rock festival in May, presenting five new titles.
Those who attended were amazed. “It was super impressive, a total show, we went beyond a concert,” Alice Boinet, Art Rock programmer, described to AFP.
This festival is accustomed to this type of good shots since Phoenix, a French group that, like Christine and the Queens, finds a good echo internationally, had unveiled their set design for their latest work there. alpha zulu last year.
“Dominatrix”
“On stage, for Christine and the Queens, there is a monumental statue, Anglo-Saxon musicians and him, in the middle, very theatrical, with a vocal power that perhaps we had forgotten a little and that hit the audience”, Alice continues. Boinet.
The thirty-year-old artist will tour the European stages, the United Kingdom, will return to North America, without forgetting, of course, some steps in France to bring this album, of 20 titles in its long version, 9 in the short.
Obviously, the titles with Madonna – Crying angels in my bed, i met an angel AND lick the light – It’ll get people talking. The megastar, who will begin a world tour this summer to celebrate her 40-year career, speaks there with a spectral voice. Which fits perfectly with the themes of spiritual journey after bereavement -Christine and the Queens lost her mother in recent years- and the search for love that run through the album.
The French artist, revealed by the album human heat (2014), explains in his notes of intent sent to the interpreter of fashion “parts to read instead of refrains to sing, to speak to the actress in it.”
And greet “this iconic voice, so emblematic, of Madonna, who speaks with all the facets (inscribed) in our consciousness, assuming multiple forms and roles, from the mother figure to the dominatrix.”
“You’re crazy”
Madonna, a great admirer of the Frenchman, even invited him in 2015 to accompany her on stage at the Bercy (Accor Arena) in Paris, slapping his buttocks for a video sequence that went viral.
But how to convince the singer of material girl participate in a very conceptual project on paper? “She happened on a phone call, she told me: ‘You’re crazy, I’ll do it’ (‘You’re crazy, I’m going to do it’),” says Christine and the Queens in the French magazine The Unrockuptibles.
We must not dwell on the songs where Madonna appears, nor on the esoteric interview passages from Christine and the Queens. Who so recounts in The Unrockuptibles a complex discussion with the DJs of a French radio station. They assure that they can “judge the effectiveness of a piece in the first ten seconds”, they speak of a “shamanic journey”…
The album, which the Frenchman co-produced with Mike Dean (a collaborator of Jay-Z, The Weeknd and Beyoncé), includes beautiful moments such as the ballad i feel like an angel. Pieces big eye AND tears can be soft takes advantage of the rhythm of Portishead (one of the main British trip-hop groups). AND marvin descending promises chills on stage.
Source: BFM TV
