Chris (English Version)

Chris is the second album by French singer Christine and the Queens, following her 2015 debut Chaleur Humaine.

In an interview with Beats One, Christine states why she decided to call the album “Chris“:

I think I’ll always be slightly confused – which is what’s fun! But it’s good now because people are even more confused now between my civil state, my first stage name and this altered stroked-out name. I guess I like to be called Chris more and more because it’s kind of evolving. I’m back and I’m evolving. It’s about making the character evolve in a way that feels to me that it fits more well with where I’m at now. And Chris feels more like a nickname, like something that is more confident and exposed and I do feel like the new sounds are going to be very much about that.

Christine and the Queens wrote “Fragments of a Self-Portrait” for EGOISTE N°18 – TOME II, MARCH 2018.

In an a Pitchfork article, Christine also stated:

Chris is about going in unexpected places, trying to confront extreme otherness, precisely because of a wild trust in feelings, in finding pleasure in zones of discomfort; even if it could kill me, I’d still go for the thrill of it. It’s true also that this album was born out of stories of desire that led me astray of what one could expect me to love or want.