{"id":2442838,"date":"2019-04-11T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820117"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:14:00","slug":"watch-christine-and-the-queens-ophelia-championing-comme-si-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-christine-and-the-queens-ophelia-championing-comme-si-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Christine and the Queens\u2019 Ophelia-Championing \u2018Comme Si\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christine-and-the-queens.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Christine and the Queens channels&nbsp;<em>Hamlet<\/em> for her interpretative dance-centric \u201cComme si\u201d video. The French pop star will perform at Coachella this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by David Wilson, the floral video was shot in Thailand and features Christine in a meadow by a river. After rising from the water and shedding her white dress, the singer wades through the flowers and water, channeling the doomed Ophelia. The video ends with her standing in front of a waterfall, eyes towards the sky.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn <em>Hamlet<\/em>, Ophelia is, of course, the unlucky lover, the rejected one; but her madness and the suicide that ensues is also symptomatic of a whole era: the young girl, unwanted, unloved, simply cannot live,\u201d Christine explains in a statement. \u201c<\/span><span>Looking at Millais\u2019 painting, and thinking of \u2018Comme si\u2019 as this erotic reverie of subverting rejection with self-empowerment, I started to dream of giving that myth a welcomed, witty twist. Let\u2019s undo that tragic ending; let\u2019s cheat death, if you will.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cComme si\u201d is the latest single off of&nbsp;<em>Chris<\/em>, the singer and dancer\u2019s 2018 sophomore LP. She will perform at both weekends of Coachella, and her performance will be part of the weekend-long livestream. Following the first weekend of Coachella, she will appear on&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/christine-and-the-queens-comme-si-video-820117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine and the Queens channels&nbsp;Hamlet for her interpretative dance-centric \u201cComme si\u201d video. The French pop star will perform at Coachella this weekend. Directed by David Wilson, the floral video was shot in Thailand and features Christine in a meadow by a river. After rising from the water and shedding her white dress, the singer wades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 04:03:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}