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 Hirway.
Christine in 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 Victoire de la Musique,
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' 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.