CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS
When Héloïse Letissier emerged on the international stage as Christine and the Queens, via a spell-binding dance routine to her breakthrough single “Titled,” she appeared like a pop-star from a bygone-era. Quiet, bookish, and altogether unassuming, the French singer was the sort of artist you could walk past every day and never recognize. The demure persona was not an accident.
“The first record was me trying to escape the male gaze, if I could. Very buttoned-up, quite a neutral way of existing,” she says. “But I was failing at it because every comment I was reading under my videos was still ‘would I fuck this girl?’ rather than focusing on
