Sometime in 2020, the artist formerly known as Christine and the Queens saw a red car while walking the streets of Los Angeles.
It’s been a tumultuous – but ultimately transformative – few years for the performer. First, there was his mother’s passing, the deep sadness of which seeps into songs like “Les étoiles”, in which he looks, misty-eyed, at the night skies: “The stars speak to me, mother / The stars speak to each other,” he sings over glittering, celestial synths.
Perhaps the most consequential decision – eight years after singing “I’m a man now” on “iT,” the opening track of his debut album – was to embrace his identity as a trans man. “It has been palpable in most of my lyrics for 10 years now,” he says matter-of-factly. While Redcar doesn’t go into the specifics of what prompted this change, he notes that he’s bristled in the past at being encouraged to commercialise his identity as a queer person.
Redcar’s journey has been a turbulent one, he explains, and one he arrived at as a means of survival more than anything else. When he first spoke about his identity online earlier this year, some criticised him for wanting to retain a fluidity in how he presents himself, to which his answer is equally forthright. “My approach to transness is not especially going to be pleasing or reassuring, since I don’t believe I should comfort anyone with any type of passing,” he says.
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