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Why has nobody mentioned La Roux earlier?   2 comments

Posted at 10:37 am in rivercityvibe

I don’t get out much, since the fatwa. This has limited my exposure to popular culture a little so i have missed a couple of awesomes that I would usually have “early-adopted”, if you’ll excuse my corporate wankery.

One of these, drawn to my attention by one of my minions, is La Roux. Unbelieveably brilliant. My advice to you, young reader, is to put on your silk kimono, pour yourself a large-ish slug of electric-soup and sit back and listen to this. You might want to line up a flexible floozy of some sort for when its over.

The usual source mentions that La Roux is influenced by 80’s synthpop including Yazoo, Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Heaven 17 and Blancmange. That explains the awesome.

Unfortunately, it then goes on to quote La Roux herself talking about the band’s name in a way that makes her sound like a brainless fucking idiot:

To me, it means “red-haired one” – and it does, vaguely. It’s just a male version of “red-haired one”, which I think is even cooler, because I’m well androgynous anyway. So it kind of makes sense.

More than you do, you ninny. Preserve the mystery. Please.

It’s Pop Star 101. A week one/day one crow knows that……..

Written by Joe Bones on September 8th, 2010

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