Photo: Jasa Muller Recently, Chris — a.k.a. Christine and the Queens , or Redcar, or Red — began talking to angels. It had been a difficult few years for the 34-year-old French singer: He lost his beloved mother, went through a breakup, officially adopted he/him pronouns at an excruciatingly transphobic moment in history, and released an eccentric concept album (2022's Redcar les adorables ètoiles ) that, by his own account, baffled fans and critics alike. Calling on spirits was a way to gain wisdom and guidance through grief, and the practice eventually served as the inspiration for his latest project, Paranoia, Angels, True Love . Chris's music has always been tinged with the avant-garde, defying easy categorization and pushing the boundaries of pop. 2014's Chaleur Humaine , a sparkling debut that vaulted him to stardom in his home country, saw him singing about "draw[ing] her own crotch, by herself" and "dying before Methuselah"; on 2018's confident, sultry Chris , he mused cheekily about not "feeling like a girlfriend," but "damn, I'd be your lover"; and his pandemic-era EP La Vita Nuova dug into bone-deep sadness and featured an accompanying short film in which he morphs into a seductive vampire …. Read full this story
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