New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Last night, Christine and The Queens appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform "Comme si"from her album Chris. The head-turning performance by the French pop sensation with 6 dancers at the Ed Sullivan Theater comes in the middle of the sold out North-American tour. Chris recently discussed her highly acclaimed second album, Chris with Variety Magazine for the GRAMMY nominees prediction issue and poured out her heart out via the Reddit AMA.
Chris was written, arranged and performed by Christine and the Queens. She discusses the album here with New York Times, NPR World Cafe and Pitchfork Song By Song for instance, and it is the follow up to her already-iconic debut record Chaleur Humaine / Christine and the Queens, released to near-universal acclaim in France in 2014 and the UK in 2016, and selling more than 1.3 million copies to date. The sophomore album features the singles "
Girlfriend", which she performed live with Dâm-Funk and The
Roots on The
Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon HERE, "5 dollars," and "Doesn't Matter" which are available in English and French language versions, Chris is available in digital and physical formats, including double CD and vinyl versions, as well as limited edition box sets, courtesy of Because Music.
"Chaleur Humaine was about teenage years, most of it," says Christine. "Loneliness, really true feelings, and there is a softness in the way I wrote as well, because I was properly introducing myself."
Chris arrives on different terms. "It gets to be a bit more exhilarating, because I get to say, okay, I've been introduced now. I get to be more confident, and it matches what happened in my life as a woman."
She says the first record turned her from a reclusive, bookish young woman writing for herself into "an athlete performer, which is something I always wanted to live, but it happened. Then suddenly I'm out in the open and I'm having more experiences, meeting people, having relationships, and stories are happening to me. All of a sudden, you're a real grownass woman." "The second album could have been me finding a fancy producer in LA and doing the pop shit," she laughs, "but actually, no. I wanted to make it even more personal, if it's possible."
Recent praise for Christine and the Queens:
"Gender Is A Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer" "Chris" is hard-nosed and irrepressible, a coiled spring unbound" - New York Times
"Worthy of a Best New Artist GRAMMY nomination" - Variety Magazine
"The resulting album is an electric blend of unforgettable imagery, emotional depth, and lurid, sizzling pop-funk". 7.9 - Pitchfork
"...her stuttering vocal cadence recalls the very best of Michael Jackson." - PAPER Magazine
"pop music that truly matters" - 5* - The Guardian
TOUR DATES:
Tue 10.23 - SEATTLE - THE SHOWBOX - SOLD OUT
Fri 10.26 - OAKLAND - FOX THEATER - SOLD OUT
Sat 10.27 - LOS ANGELES - THE WILTERN - SOLD OUT
Wed 10.31 - NEW YORK - BROOKLYN STEEL - SOLD OUT
Thu 11.01 - NEW YORK - BROOKLYN STEEL - SOLD OUT
Fri 11.02 - PHILADELPHIA - UNION TRANSFER
Sun 11.04 - WASHINGTON - 9:30 CLUB - SOLD OUT
Mon 11.05 - TORONTO - DANFORTH MUSIC HALL - SOLD OUT
Tue 11.06 - MONTREAL - PLACE BELL
Sat 11.17 - BOURNEMOUTH - BIC
Tue 11.20 - LONDON - EVENTIM APOLLO - SOLD OUT
Wed 11.21 - LONDON - EVENTIM APOLLO - SOLD OUT
Fri 11.23 - GLASGOW - ROYAL CONCERT HALL
Sat 11.24 - EDINBURGH - USHER HALL
Mon 11.26 - BIRMINGHAM - O2 ACADEMY
Tue 11.27 - MANCHESTER - O2 APOLLO - SOLD OUT
Wed 11.28 - MANCHESTER - O2 APOLLO
Fri 11.30 - DUBLIN - RDS
Tue 12.04 - NANTES - ZENITH
Wed 12.05 - BORDEAUX - METROPOLE ARENA
Thu 12.06 - MONTPELLIER - ZENITH SUD
Tue 12.11 - GENEVE - ARENA
Wed 12.12 - STRASBOURG - ZENITH
Fri 12.14 - LYON - HALLE TONY GARNIER
Sat 12.15 - TOULOUSE - ZENITH
Tue 12.18 - PARIS - ACCORHOTELS ARENA - SOLD OUT
Wed 12.19 - PARIS - ACCORHOTELS ARENA
ALBUM TRACKLISTING
English language version:
1. Comme si
2. Girlfriend (feat. Dâm-Funk) HERE
3. The walker
4. Doesn't matter HERE
5. 5 dollars HERE
6. Goya Soda
7. Damn (what must a woman do)
8. What's-her-face
9. Feel so good
10. Make some sense
11. The stranger
French language version:
1. Comme si on s'aimait
2. Damn, dis-moi (feat. Dâm-Funk)
3. La marcheuse HERE
4. Doesn't matter (voleur de soleil)
5. 5 dols
6. Goya ! Soda !
7. Follarse
8. Machin-chose
9. Bruce est dans le brouillard
10. Le G
11.Les yeux mouillés
12. L'étranger (voleur d'eau)
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