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CHRISTINE and the QUEENS – ” Eyes of a Child “

Posted: July 4, 2020 in MUSIC
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Christine & The Queens has debuted ‘Eyes of a Child’, a new track created for the second season of the Amazon Prime Video series “Hanna”. Accompanied by a bare-bones instrumental featuring spare keys and haunting backing vocals, frontperson Héloïse Letissier sings: “She will come whenever I call her/ But she’ll leave as soon as I sigh/ She’s got the eyes of a child/ And she’ll love without any sorrow/ For she just aims for the heart.”

The latest effort from Héloïse Letissier is one of her most affecting efforts to date – with the singer’s vocals backed by haunting instrumentals throughout the track. It’s the first new track from the singer since ‘I Disappear In Your Arms’ debuted in April, which was  a bonus cut from her recently released surprise EP ‘La vita nuova’.

She’s also been sharing a series of theatrical live-streamed performances while in lockdown, most recently debuting a rendition of ‘La Vita Nuova’ for the ‘Global Goal: Unite For Our Future’ digital benefit concert. Other efforts include a performance of People, I’ve Been Sad, which she performed via livestream from her Parisian home for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Christine and the Queens has shared a handful of quarantine live performances, including an appearance of ‘I Disappear in Your Arms’ at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Christine and the Queens – “Eyes of a Child”, taken from the original soundtrack of “Hanna”

CHRISTINE and the QUEENS feat PERFUME GENIUS – ” Jonathan “

Posted: March 7, 2016 in MUSIC
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Héloïse Letissier and Mike Hadreas have both previously sung about inhabiting queer identity to its most provocative extent, exposing the conservative public to the parts of society they would rather erase. Perfume Genius’ “Queen” is officially immortal now, while this year’s “iT” found the Christine and the Queens auteur declaring, “I’m a man now/ And there’s nothing you can do to make me change my mind.” But their collaboration “Jonathan” (a new track on the forthcoming U.S. release of Letissier’s 2014 debut) explores how that outward confidence can be undermined by a lover’s internalized shame.

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Their questions about why a relationship only comes to pass by night go unresolved, fractured in English and French. Letissier eventually concludes, “Je te croyais au-dessus des lois” (“I thought you were above the law”), her sense of guilt shifting to one of sad betrayal. Throughout, the pair maintain a heartbreaking poise, matched by the utterly exquisite balance of strings, percussive pop and hiss, and delicate, otherworldly synths that gather to fill the song with mournful elegance. “Can you walk with me in the daylight?” Letissier asks, her head held high.