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Christine and the Queens releases French and English versions of a new song

Christine and the Queens has released a new song in French and English as Rendez-vous avec toi and Rendez-vous in your arms. Both versions have accompanying videos co-directed by Chris and Raphaël De Albuquerque. The release previews an album whose title has not been announced, ahead of four full-band European concerts in December.

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A wide garden view of Botanique in Brussels, where Christine and the Queens will open the four-date December tour, showing the glass frontage and central glazed rotunda.

One song, two releases

Singer Christine and the Queens has issued a new composition as Rendez-vous avec toi in French and Rendez-vous in your arms in English. The two recordings introduce an album whose title has not been announced. They arrive three years after the last proper solo album under the Christine and the Queens name, a 20-song work inspired by the play Angels in America.[1], [2]

The videos and recent releases

Each language version has a video directed jointly by Chris and Raphaël De Albuquerque, with choreography by Alexander Ekman. The singer’s recent work has also appeared under another name: Hopecore was released as Rahim Redcar in 2024. In 2025, Chris joined Cerrone, a musician associated with Italian disco, for the short release Catching Feelings. The new song returns to the Christine and the Queens name.[1]

New material on stage in December

Four concerts with a full band are scheduled for December. The route opens on 1 December at Botanique in Brussels, Belgium, followed by Scala in London on 7 December and Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 8 December. It ends at Alhambra in Paris, France, on 10 December. Chris has described a programme revisiting earlier songs and offering an initial hearing of unreleased material from the next album.[1]

References

  1. News sourcePitchforkChristine and the Queens releases French and English versions of a new song↩1↩2↩3
  2. News sourceShindig MusicChristine and the Queens releases Rendez-vous avec toi in two languages↩