Christine and the Queens, also known as Chris, has released a new collaboration with the successful French band Indochine. The track is called 3SEX and is a remix, or re-working of the band’s single 3e sexe off the 1985 album 3.
The newly announced collaboration has come with several social-media posts and an official music video for the track. The video features Chris and the lead singer of Indochine, Nicola Sirkis.
The music video was directed by Colin Solal Cardo. Both of the French singers were able to capture electropop genre that Christine and the Queens is known for, while maintaining the signature sound of the highly acclaimed Indochine.
Christine and the Queens recently released their newest music in the form of the EP, La Vita Nuova. The EP was dropped in the Spring of this year, 2020. Chris has not released a full-length album since the self-titled 2018 release of Chris.
While the artist is French, in 2016 they were still able to procure a spot on the BBC’s Top 100 Women of 2016 due to her immense popularity in the UK. In 2019 she released the song Gone with Charli XCX that skyrocketed in the charts.
That same year the pop-star appeared on the eleventh season of Rupaul’s Drag Race. Chris is popular in the LGBTQ+ community due to her announcement in 2015 that she is pansexual and genderqueer.
The artist is not currently on tour. Christine and the Queens do not have an upcoming 2021 show-date list as of yet due to safety concerns surrounding the ongoing global pandemic, Covid-19 otherwise known as Coronavirus.
2020 is nevertheless a new chapter in the musician’s career, her latest EP feeling more modern then ever. It has received widespread critical praise despite the lack of a single reaching the UK top charts. More than that, it seems that the UK is becoming more interested in French-speaking music with the rise of Dua Lipa’s newest single Fever which features a French-speaking singer.
It is unclear when the next full length album will be released by Christine and the Queens however, the EP La Vita Nuova is available for streaming now, and the original album 3 is as well. The new remix of 3SEX with Indochine is available on all platforms today.
