Madonna replied: "You're crazy, I'll do it," and sent over the vocal takes two hours later. I'm doing a psych-op opera, and it's kind of seventies, and it's by Tommy Wiseled, and you need to be this voice of maybe it's my mom, maybe it's the Queen Mary, maybe it's a computer, maybe it's everything." She's the mother."Ī post shared by Christine and the Queens after the idea had been thought, Dean called up Madonna, and Chris gave his pitch: "I need you to be the voice of everything. And I was like, "It's genius!" Because she's basically ingrained in everybody's subconscious. And I was like, "Those tech guys literally took Madonna's imprint," because it sounded a lot like her. The idea to involve Madonna in the project came out of "total delirium", when Mike Dean and Chris were working on the song, "Angels crying in my bed", as Chris says: "We clicked on a video on YouTube that was a poem and it was a computer voice uttering it. It's giving me Stanley Kubrick Space 'Odyssey' as well," he says. I was thinking about Laurie Anderson song "O Superman" as well, where you can't tell what the voice is and where does she come from. "Big Eye was the name I gave the character because it's this very all-encompassing, slightly worrying angel voice. As he was writing lyrics, and singing the songs, a character began to reveal itself. Whilst in conversation with Hattie Collins, Chris reveals how the collaboration came about.Įarly on in the conversation, he reveals that the album came together quite quickly over a month, where he was "was writing a new song every day". Madonna features on three songs on Christine and the Queens' forthcoming album, PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE.
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