"Immortal Queen" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Sia featuring American singer Chaka Khan,recorded for Sia's album,Reasonable Woman. A lyric video for the song was released on 3 May 2024,the same day the album came out.
Sia announced Reasonable Woman in early 2024,revealing a diverse lineup of collaborations,including "Immortal Queen" with Chaka Khan. Khan first said she was working on the song during an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald in September 2023.[6]
In an interview with FLAUNT,Sia revealed that "Immortal Queen" was inspired by Beyoncé,stating:
…I wrote it like a long long time ago, before I could ever think of calling myself a queen. I wrote it thinking about Beyoncé maybe 10 or 15 years ago. My managers were always telling me, ‘Immortal Queen’ is such a good song, it’s such a good song.’ And I thought that I could never sing it just by myself. I would have to have some queens on it, you know?"
Sia continued, sharing the emotional moment when her managers contacted Chaka Khan to ask if she would feature on the song. Sia described her excitement, saying she could hardly believe the opportunity.
"Immortal Queen" is an R&B[1] song. The sheet music for the song shows the key of F♯ minor and a tempo of 88 beats per minute.[9][10] It features lyrics that reference time travel, robot servants, and historical queens like Victoria and Sheba.
Reception
In a review of the album, Mark Kennedy from AP News said "Their new duet 'Immortal Queen' is everything you'd want in a combo of Sia and Khan — dueling soaring voices, preening egos and insane lyrics about time travel and robot servants."[11]
Pitchfork described the lyrics of "Immortal Queen" as "so incomprehensible they’re almost camp," citing its references to The Matrix, "cavemen bringing the cave queen carvings," and Queens Victoria and Sheba. The review criticized the song's lack of coherence, stating that it "makes no more sense in context, ping-ponging between uninspired synth arpeggios, than it does on paper."[12]
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