She experienced sadness. But since she conquered the world with her electro dancing pop, things are better for Christine and the Queens, aka Chris. The 31-year-old Frenchwoman, consecrated "leader of the next generation of pop stars who remake the world" by Time magazine , sings his melancholy in a new cathartic piece entitled People, I've Been Sad , released Wednesday on YouTube.
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To present this surprise song, released without any communication, Héloïse Letissier, whose real name, chose the very trendy Colors Show, a video platform channel in which pop dancers are invited to sing in an empty room whose walls are painted in a bright color. Billy Eilish, Angèle or Eddy De Pretto went there before shining brightly.
Dressed in a retro style inspired by the 1980s, the singer seems to be inhabited in this title which we feel the influence of Michael Jackson. A drum machine, atmospheric synths and a powerful but laconic bass lead the dance, while Chris devotes himself to a mini-choreography, guided by the energy of his hands.
On a purple background, concentrated on her microphone and her body language, she evokes her "annoyed adolescence" in a song in English and French (international stature requires). “I have spent 20 years of my life not loving myself. My adolescence was a complex hell , ” she told Le Figaro last year. A malaise manifestly overcome over time, but which she remembers in this new title in the line of Human Heat and which could well precede a third album ...
● Watch “People, I've Been Sad” by Christine and the Queens in the Colors Show:
