Christine and the Queens interview: 'I'm working the excess, in a way that a masculine hero is excessive'

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’m sometimes a bit scared of how it’s started to be digested, cleverly, by a system of profit,” says Letissier, who identifies as pansexual. “Because it’s sexy right now, quoi?” “I mean it’s really wonderful,” she adds, “because it seems like a reconciliation, but it’s a bit puzzling. It was always them who got to play the tiny scoundrels, with their invisible guns; all that was left for us to do was stare and clap.” Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up She had big ideas for the video for “Doesn’t Matter”, one of the album’s standout tracks and a moment of existential melancholy. It’s not especially angry.’ “I think, feminist book 101 open,” she continues, flamboyantly opening an imaginary tome in front of her, “that a woman intense is always associated with negative energies, like anger and resentment.