2023-06-07 04:32:00
The album title also hides the central stations of his artistic journey: from tormenting states of anxiety (Paranoïa) to the loss of loved ones (Angels) to the meaning of true love (True Love). The journey has not been easy for the 35-year-old in recent years: the French singer-songwriter, also known as Redcar, lost his mother and struggled with the end of his love affair. The third single from the album “Tears can be so soft” is supposed to represent an “interplay between the suffering that causes tears and the gentle healing effect they can have at the same time”, as Letissier recently told the music magazine “Rolling Stone”.
Recorded by producer Mike Dean (Lana Del Rey, Jay-Z), pop legend Madonna can be heard on three of the 20 tracks on the album. But instead of sending her choruses to sing, Letissier gave her lines to speak into. “She just delivered brilliantly and spoke every single line with such a wonderful ambivalence,” as the singer said in the run-up to the album release (June 9).
Madonna’s strong presence on the tracks and the musician’s energy complement each other amazingly. They allude to a viral video on the album of them dancing together on stage in Paris in 2015. In fact, some of the songs on “Paranoïa, Angels, True Love” are reminiscent of Madonna from the ’90s ray-of-light era with their lightness and light synth sounds.
Christine and the Queens’ music often explores gender identity and sexuality while baffling critics and fans alike. In his new work, Letissier uses the artistic process as a way to explore identity as a construct – for him it serves as a life’s work, like a “love letter to the world and the heavenly spheres where the fever of life unfolds”.
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