“CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS’ SURPRISE EP IS THE EPITOME OF ‘MYTHOLOGY BUT MAKE IT SEXY’”

February 27, 2020

4:59 pm

RUN WILD IN THE WORLD OF CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS

Who hasn’t felt like the one thing missing from Homer’s The Oddessy was a genderfluid French Pop God? Christine and the Queens makes this dream a reality for us in her new surprise EP La Vita Nuova. Earlier this month she dropped the ultra synthy, vulnerable new single, “People I’ve Been Sad”, and today Chris literally just mic-dropped all of us with a striking EP and accompanying short film featuring all 5 songs.

The film is a 14 minute hero’s journey that first follows Chris dancing daringly on top of the Paris Opera House, only to then leap into the arms of a mythological devil creature who serenades her. Suddenly, she’s falling through the sky and caught by a group of dancers in a studio who introduce the second track “Je Disparais Dans Tes Bras” (I disappear in your arms). The music gets funkier, then bloodier, but unbearably sexier (trust us), ending with the titular Caroline Polacheck collab as a red-eyed vampiric Chris bites her neck. In the end, she’s become the devil herself, and suddenly I’m wishing Chris would suck my blood, too.

You’ll have to see this film for yourself, though, because every shot explodes with emotion and boldness (shot by long time collaborator Colin Solal Cardo) that only a God like Christine and the Queens could inspire. The shape-shifting choreography (by Sia choreographer Ryan Heffington – “Chandelier” VMA Award 2014, Grammy nominated) unapologetically takes up space and transforms through each song, mirroring Chris’s own character arc.

Not all heroes wear capes – and Christine and the Queens is the hero we all deserve, but didn’t know we needed.