Christine And The Queens On Performing Live, Sexuality And 'Questioning The Norm, Always'

Christine and the Queens and her theatrical, electro-pop performances are breaking out of France and hitting the world stage. The French native is touring all summer after the release of her latest album, "Chris," last September.

The musician, whose real name is Héloïse Letissier, says she thinks of the moniker used for the album's title as a way to describe the "weird," freeing feeling of performing onstage.

"I guess Chris is just the name I'm putting on my most audacious, daring version of myself," she tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson.

Listeners might be familiar with Chris' track "Tilted," named one of the best songs of 2015 by Time Magazine and which she recently performed at Coachella. She says the song is an exploration of queer identity.

"I think 'Tilted' means out of balance, slightly out of the norm — and out of it because you are made to feel out of it, because of really narrow ways of existing," she says. "And I think being queer for me is questioning the norm, always."