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Call Her Chris: How Christine and the Queens Is Shape-Shifting Pop’s Future
On a late summer morning, Heloise Letissier — the 30-year-old pansexual pop phenomenon who’s garnered worldwide renown upending gender norms as Christine and the Queens — sits at an outdoor cafe in Manhattan’s East Village, drinking a glass of water. Though she is French, she neither smokes nor drinks, and though it’s barely 10 A.M., she’s already had enough coffee. “It’s my only vice,” she says. Too much and her heart starts to palpitate.
Christine — even her friends call Letissier by her stage name, which she has now shortened, along with her hair, to pursue a more masculine, aggressive persona for her excellent new album, Chris — has achieved the kind of stardom overseas that’s seen her brought onstage by Madonna and shouted out by Paul McCartney. In the U.K., the English language version of her first album, Chaleur Humaine (Human Warmth, though the hint of body heat isn’t far off the mark), was the best-selling debut of 2016, and the besuited, color-saturated visuals that accompanied it have turned up in video
Christine and the Queens on refusing to be anything other than herself
In just three short years, Héloïse Letissier – better known as Chris from Christine and the Queens – has transformed from critically acclaimed musician to a bona-fide icon-in-the-making. This is the story of how refusing to be anything other than herself made 2019 her biggest year yet.
Héloïse Letissier does not want you to call her a role model.
Since her first album, Chaleur Humaine, became the UK’s biggest-selling debut of 2016, she has been nominated for two Brit Awards, performed with Sir Elton John and Madonna, counts Sir Michael Caine as a fan and played out the season finale of RuPaul’s Flamboyant Race (while harbouring a secret admiration on drag queen Sharon Needles).
Few musicians have enjoyed such mainstream success while so openly and authentically putting two fingers up at the straight, sexualised, male-gaze-dominated world of pop. Yet still, Letissier does not want you to call her a role model.
It’s four in the afternoon, after a five-hour shoot that has seen her alter in front of the camera from a delightfully goofy, 4ft 11in girl-next-door into a break-dancer, belly dancer and – at
Christine and the Queens
Christine and the Queens, or simply Chris, is a French singer-songwriter. The artist identify "Christine and the Queens" is based on performative queens who taught Chris how to play with gender.[4]
Chris identifies as pansexual because of perceived binary-ness of the term bisexual.[5]
Chris historically identifed as genderqueer[2] rather than trans,[5] but in 2022 revealed that he now identifies as a man and had done so for a year.[6]
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"Once we free women of stereotypes, we can free men as well. Men will be allowed to cry in public, and actually be queer and feminine. Some guys appreciate Young Thug make me believe in the fragile thug, the feminine thug. I'm waiting for gender-fluidity to actually rule the world and then we can all be free."[7]
"Feminism, it helps men, as well. If we don't have one way to be a woman, then we don't have one way to be a man. Everybody wins! There's a lot to be done, still. Because you feel, with the Internet, with discussion articles, it comes in waves. It goes forward, and then it goes backward, and then it goes forward again. With the Interne
Christine and the Queens Singer Chris Says He’s ‘Been a Man’ for the Last Year, Updates Pronouns
French singer-songwriter Chris (formerly known as Christine and the Queens) is owning his truth to its fullest extent in his latest TikTok.
Posted last week, the clip shows Chris — who also updated his pronouns online to “he/him” — sharing with his fans where his journey with gender identity has taken him. “I’ve been a male for a year now – a little more officially in my family and in my relationship,” he said, speaking in his native French. “It is a distant process.”
Chris has elongated been outspoken about his queer culture, especially when it comes to gender, in interviews. Speaking to The Fresh York Times in March, Chris distributed that his bond with gender has long been “tumultuous.” “It’s raging right now, as I’m just exploring what is beyond this,” he explained. “A way to convey it could be switching between they and she. I kind of yearn to tear down that system that made us label genders in such a strict way.”
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Christine And The Queens: Creature queer glossed out as super-fancy accessory
The music video for Swift’s You Require to Calm Down featured some prominent queer celebrities, which some critics suggested was opportunistic.
French singer Christine told Cosmopolitan magazine: “I’m conflicted. I guess somewhere, young gay men might watch that Taylor Swift video and feel a sense of relief.
“Five years on (since she entered the industry) and you can tell that creature queer has been glossed out as this super-fancy accessory. You can say that the queer aesthetic is being used to sell things.
“The mainstream needs that life because it’s so vibrant. But I believe the core of the queer aesthetic cannot be sold.”
The singer also discussed coming out as pansexual – meaning people who can be attracted to others regardless of their gender identity or organic sex – to the French media in 2014.
“It was like a detonation,” she said.
“When your sexuality is not the norm, you have to find words to express it.
“Sometimes I was made to touch dirty, or like it was obscene. It’s just a sexual orientation – there’s nothing perverse about that.