Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, for the show is about to begin. La Roux will now start making electro-pop mean something again.
Elly Jackson is 21 years old. She has a short ginger bob, freckles, a nose that makes your heart turn to a puddle, but - more- importantly - a way with melodies that makes everything else around you completely vanish. The South Londoner is experiencing all the things girls of that age tend to; heartbreak, frustration, wonderment, invincibility and fragility. But unlike most girls her age, Elly has a staggering ability to channel all these feelings and experiences into wondrous blasts of crystal-clean ear candy that hit the listener with instant resonance. But La Roux (French for “the red haired one”) isn’t about disposable dance floor fodder or meaningless pap. “It’s not that I can’t listen to music without words that mean something, I do all the time. It’s just not the kind of music I want to make. I’ve cried between vocal takes. I want to connect with people at that level,” she says.
Whilst her weekends may be full of moshing around slippery sweat pits to the likes of Justice and Boyz Noize, her creative waters are stirred most by the artistry of the original electro chart pioneers like Eurythmics and Depeche Mode. Now the baby-faced siren is preparing a similar triple pronged attack; targeting charts, clubs and hearts.
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"Fascination" by La Roux was featured on last Friday's episode of Ugly Betty!
Follow this link to YouTube to check out the episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXYPDi-ajrs&feature=related
Song comes in at approximately 4:58.
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