Accused of plagiarism, Christine and the Queens believes she is a victim of sexism

Christine and the Queens responded to her critics who accused her of plagiarizing her latest title, Damn, tell me. In an interview for L'Obs, the singer considers herself a victim of badism and recalled that the loops used for the creation of her song were free of rights.

With Damn, tell me the singer Héloïse Letissier, better known as Christine and the Queens surely did not expect to become the center of many critics. Shortly after the title went live, some netizens shouted for plagiarism after they recognized samples of Apple's professional music creation and mixing software, Logic Pro, in the artist's song.

Since then, a debate has settled on the web, in front of the term of plagiarism. A word a bit strong since Christine and the Queens stole nobody's intellectual property. The loops provided in Logic Pro are royalty-free, so she could use them for her new music creation. This work will be one of the titles of Chris his second album to be released next September.

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The question is no longer whether the one who is now called Chris stole the work of others. It does not remain about it less than Heloise Letissier would have done well of this bad publicity. While she had hitherto kept silent, the singer decided to answer his detractors in the columns of the Obs. In this interview published Saturday, July 28, the author and interpreter of Damn, tell me thinks know the reason for criticism against him.

Christine and the Queens victim of badism?

Christine and the Queens began by recalling that she did nothing wrong: "I did not plagiarize a song, what I took is free of rights. 95% of today's raps borrow well-known songs. At least three pieces of Rihanna are built with loops from these programs. I did not plagiarize, I sampled a free loop of rights, on which I added lyrics, singing melody, arrangements. It's a creative technique like any other "

The singer then compared her work to that of another famous composer: " I'm free to take what I want in Logic pro. When Gainsbourg borrowed melodies from Chopin, was it plagiarism? If Christine and the Queens does not understand why she is criticized, she considers that a form of badism is hidden behind the discontent of the Net surfers: "I regret that we do still there in France. We doubt that I can be an author and a producer because I am a woman ".