“Paranoia, Angels, True Love” Is an Affirmation of the French Musician’s Overflowing Talent
Reviewed by June 12, 2023
Paul Panzeri
last November Christine and the Queens Four years after the previous one, returned to release a new album, titled “Redcar Les Adorables Etoiles (Prologue)”. “Chris” Now, less than a year later, the French artist comes out with her fourth album, “Paranoia, Angels, True Love”.
An album that is closely related to the previous episode – even though it is mostly sung in French, while this one is sung in English – as he actually declared: “This new album is the second part of a lyrical Including ‘Radcar Les Adorables Etoiles’ from 2022. Inspired by the iconic play “Angels in America” by American playwright Tony Kushner, “Angels in America” is a play staged in the United States in the early 1990s and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The work deals with the drama of AIDS and its impact on gay New York life in the 80s. For the previous album, Christine co-produced, with the talents of Mike Dean. (already at work with, among others, Lana Del Rey, Beyoncé, Kanye West and Madonna) did everything herself (writing and producing..) Madonna guest stars on three tracks, as does Rapper 070 Shake performs on two other tracks, their only collaborations on the album.
commitment, focus and satisfaction
Listening to “Paranoia, Angels, True Love” requires a lot of commitment and focus.
If only for its magnificence: 20 songs for over an hour and a half of music. But it is not only about this. Anyone who knows even a little bit about Christine and Queens is well aware that her music is a representation of the same, a fundamental basis for understanding the album, even more so in this case, given that it One is inspired by ‘Play. It’s a question of believing or not, of believing in Chris and letting yourself into ninety-odd minutes of great pop with a thousand nuances (mostly electronic) about a journey to the end of one’s existence. serves as the soundtrack for. Discovering Love, Whatever It Is, by Heloise Letissier, who explained: “Paranoia, Angels, True Love” is a guide towards a transformation that leads to an opening of one’s heart, a prayer to oneself, that which Breathes through it all the love it’s made.” It was said that the approach to the fourth album by Christine and the Queens requires commitment and focus, but add that you’ll find immense satisfaction.
challenge is won
At the end of the review of “Chris”, in September 2018, I wrote: The real great challenge of “Chris” is to be able to bring Mademoiselle Letissier into the mainstream, to give greater scope to her subjects. She’s already been a cult artist for a while.” Now, almost five years later, Heloise Letissier has won her challenge, Christine and the Queens is officially one of the most artistically vibrant and important musicians on the world music scene. I apologize retrospectively for calling her Mademoiselle, but it’s only since last August that she has publicly used masculine pronouns since declaring herself pansexual in 2016.