You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

Christine and the Queens is a singer, songwriter and producer from France.

Her debut album was first released in 2014 in French and then in 2015 she released an English version of it.

It was critically acclaimed and she won the Victoria de la music, France's equivalent of the Grammy for Best Female Artist in 2015.

Earlier this year in July 2018 she released this single, Doesn't Matter, in advance of her second album, Chris.

Like before she made a French version and an English version, but this time she wrote both versions simultaneously.

Coming up she talks about what that translation process was like and the possibilities it opened up as she takes apart doesn't matter.

The song and the story first began in Chris's basement.

My name is Christine and the Queens.

I'm actually starting to make music without any clear purpose, like flexing the muscle every day of, you know, sitting and writing.

And this time around I just started to, you know, I opened my laptop and I was like, I'm going to maybe just try and do a beat and we'll see where it goes from there.

So I'm working on Logic Studio 10, many sometimes using basic sounds on there.

And I just found at some point this kind of like more thing sound.

And I walked it a bit and had some filters on it.

The move of it felt really organic.

Like it felt like taming an animal and I started to do the bass line.

And it was like, I don't know, I created this loop and it was hypnotic to me.

Sometimes you get totally crazy over a sound and you're like, I just know something was quite gruey at the same time quite animalistic to me.

Most of the time in my productions, there are mistakes.

But when you try to remove the mistakes because I can hear the clicks of, I think it's the attack of the filter or something and it's kind of weird.

To me, it sounds like a spine.

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