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Celeb News: Héloïse Letissier (Christine And The Queens) covers NME
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Héloïse Letissier (Christine And The Queens) covers NME
The current queen of France (Louane who?? Indila who?) covers the latest issue of NME
Praising Beyonce and being imperfect:
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“I know I’ve been welcomed and embraced with this album, so technically I shouldn’t, but I still live in a society that makes me feel that way. As women, we’re given impossible things to do, and I feel I’m totally failing at them, whereas Beyoncé’s the ultimate personification of a powerful woman. She’s ticking the boxes that people expect women to tick, and I admire her for that. She strives to be perfect, and this is why we love her. But I don’t believe in perfection.”
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On the "Christine" persona:
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The relationship between Héloïse and Christine is complex, way beyond a straightforward on/off-stage dynamic. She refers to Christine as a “character” and often talks about her in the third person, but she’s not a pop persona in the mould of Ziggy Stardust or Slim Shady – an artistic means to an end that can be adopted or discarded at the wearer’s discretion. In a manner of speaking, she’s a crutch for Héloïse’s self-perceived shortcomings, “but really she’s just a better version of me, one who embraces everything more. It’s a shy person trick: give yourself another name and start over. When people call me Christine, it feels good; I wish everyone could call me Christine. For my parents, though, it’s weird: whenever they call me Héloïse, I’m like, ‘Ugh! You’ve taken my mojo out!’”
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About her upcoming "sexy" album and learning new languages:
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On her next album, she says, “I’m going to redefine what it means to be sexy, and it’s going to be creepy as hell. Because I could never do the ‘sexy’ way of being sexy. The first album was a coming-of-age album – I don’t like the phrase, but when you listen to it you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn’t socially relating to people. Since then, things have happened to me, including sexual experiences. I’ve experienced being properly lost in my desires and it’s really influenced my writing. I’m obsessed with the lusting female figure in pop music: I don’t know why George Michael should be able to sing ‘I Want Your Sex’ and I can’t, because I do. I want their sex as well, you know?”
She’s still only at the writing stage, but it’s clear Letissier has already spent a lot of time scheming over what the record will look and sound like. The English-language version of ‘Chaleur Humaine’ has made her a star far beyond the borders of her homeland, but she’s still writing songs in French, “because it’s part of who I am, and I like working with my own musical references within that language.” Interestingly, the record is shaping up to be trilingual: she’s excited by the prospect of making what she calls “French-language G-funk,” but she’s also been writing in English and Spanish, and wishes she could add German and Arabic to her lexicon, “because I love how different my voice sounds in each of them”.
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On Trump/ Marine Le Pen:
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The conversation turns to Brexit, Donald Trump and the impending French presidential election, which Letissier expects Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right, anti-EU National Front, to win. “I’m not even worried about it; I know it’s going to happen anyway,” she sighs. “It’s terrible, but we don’t have any good alternative. The right wing is depressing, but even more depressing is the lack of direction or dynamic from the left wing.
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She also talks about her social anxiety, feminism, dealing with fame... overall it's a great interview, she's amazing
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http://www.nme.com/features/christin...erview-1842670
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She's also right about this:
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One thing Letissier isn’t particularly obsessed with is fame. The French relationship to success, she explains, “is not like the American one. We raise people up, then we hate them for what they’ve become and feel the need to destroy them. At some point, that happened to me too – not harshly, but some people in France think I’m out of the zone, that I’m a has-been now. So I don’t brag about it too much.”
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French people imo are way harsher on their pop girls than the UK, so many of em were done wrong
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Love her so much
Here for her Spanish songs too!
And how is she a has been? She peaked with this album, she's doing amazingly well even in the UK
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Love her so much
Here for her Spanish songs too!
And how is she a has been? She peaked with this album, she's doing amazingly well even in the UK
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Some people here are already calling her an overrated/pretentious rich parisian, the usual haters
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this legend
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Which version of her album should I check out? I don't speak French by the way, but there's tons of French artists I adore so that's no issue for me.
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love her!!! perched for CATQ2
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Queen of talent! A French artist that I'm actually proud of (with Daft Punk, Phoenix and some other ones)
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Originally posted by SpaceOddity
Which version of her album should I check out? I don't speak French by the way, but there's tons of French artists I adore so that's no issue for me.
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I'd go with the international version myself. It's a great alternative pop album.
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Queen, i need to get this issue
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