Angèle and Justice ignite the dance floor with “What You Want”
Angèle returns with the single “What You Want,” created alongside the French duo Justice and released via Angèle VL Records/Because Music. The track carries direct, polished, and intense energy, driven by the fusion of pop and dark electronic textures. It is built for dance floors, yet it also holds an emotional weight that keeps the focus firmly on Angèle’s voice.
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Over the past few years, Angèle has steadily expanded her reach beyond Europe, highlighted by her appearance at the Paris Olympic Games ceremony in 2024, where she joined Kavinsky and Phoenix for a performance of “Nightcall” that triggered a surge in global Shazam searches. Since then, her trajectory has included billions of streams, a worldwide hit alongside Dua Lipa with “Fever,” a Netflix documentary chronicling her life and career, major campaigns with CHANEL, appearances at New York Fashion Week with A$AP Rocky, and a Coachella debut that marked a defining moment in her first U.S. tour.
Justice brings a robust electronic aesthetic that echoes the golden era of 2000s dance music. Angèle, in turn, delivers vocal precision, magnetism, and a restrained performance that avoids excess. The result is an elegant electronic piece, structured to build intensity without sacrificing clarity.
The collaboration came about organically in December 2024, after a Justice concert in Brussels that Angèle attended with her mother. Following a backstage meeting where they shared creative visions, Angèle invited them to her studio to listen to demos on her computer. Among them was “What You Want,” a track she described as sultry and sensual but felt incomplete.
She gave them the green light. “Do whatever you want with it,” she said. So Justice transformed the production, adding a tension and club-ready edge that the original version lacked. The result is a synergy where Angèle’s intimate pop instincts meet Justice’s industrial swagger and rock grandeur. As Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé aptly describe it, the track demanded something “sensual and brutal,” something they instinctively connected with.
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The music video, directed by the collective (LA)HORDE (linked to the Ballet National de Marseille and known for their work with Madonna, Sam Smith, and Christine and the Queens), transforms the song into a nocturnal story filmed in Marseille using only an iPhone 17 Pro. The device functions as a narrative tool, enabling a unique choreographic fluidity and capturing the intensity of scenes in laundromats and bars. In the video, Angèle and dancer Nora Monsecour engage in a desire-driven chase that reinforces the artist’s queer narrative and breaks taboos. According to (LA)HORDE, the project allows a woman of her generation to reclaim French Touch, a musical movement historically dominated by men.
What began in 2018 as a local phenomenon with a million copies sold is now a reality that transcends borders and languages. Angèle has gone from being the Belgian prodigy dominating the French-language charts to the artist breaking records at the Olympic Games and shining at Coachella. Angèle isn’t on her way anywhere, because with her clear vision and undiminished courage, she’s already here, reclaiming pop on her own terms.
