{"id":9386,"date":"2023-06-12T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=9386"},"modified":"2023-06-13T04:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T03:30:41","slug":"morning-song-mark-knopfler-monteleone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2023\/06\/12\/morning-song-mark-knopfler-monteleone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#Morning song #Christine and the Queens # To be honest\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At a recent show at London\u2019s Southbank Centre, Christine and the Queens<\/a>, going under the guise of Redcar, performed the entirety of his latest album Redcar les adorables \u00e9toiles (prologue)<\/em><\/a>. Dressed as a sailor, he donned a red strap-on, screamed existential questions to a papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 moon, and danced with a giant robot arm. The show was ostensibly about some kind of salvation\u2014ending with Letissier ascending to heaven\u2014but the album he was performing felt strangely leaden. Where were the dazzling, hook-rich songs Chris had become known for? Where was the warm emotion of La vita nuova<\/em><\/a>, or Chris<\/em>\u2019s sleazy razzle-dazzle? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As its title suggested,\u00a0Redcar les adorables \u00e9toiles<\/em>\u00a0was just act one: The second part,\u00a0Parano\u00efa, Angels, True Love<\/em>, is slated to be released in June. And praise be\u2014its lead single \u201cTo Be Honest\u201d is dazzlingly grand, an understated but electrifying return to form. Over slowly-building synth chords, Chris sings in English about feeling estranged from his own past\u2014\u201cI\u2019ve been through so much\/That sometimes it feels far\/It is like a movie played by another star\/She\u2019s a stranger, to be honest\u201d\u2014indirectly referencing the trauma and upheaval he has experienced since his transition and the death of his mother. A motorik drum beat and the faintest electric guitar solo give the song the feeling of a resplendent \u201880s power ballad; Chris sounds as if he recorded in the center of a cathedral, his voice reverberating skyward as the song builds. \u201cFeeling kind of loveless\/Yet always ready to try,\u201d he sings, finally landing <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted from: https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/christine-and-the-queens-to-be-honest\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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