A skewed La Roux video...

Despite having absolutely no clue what it all means (isn't that the truth!) we here at S&N deem this to be La Roux's best video. It's genuinely bizarre and visually interesting - two things you rarely get in music videos these days. *Goes off on Daily Fail-inspired rant about how things were best in yesteryear*. Anyway, this was always one of our favourite La Roux tracks, and accompanied by this inneresting and arresting video, we can officially stamp it with our BRILLO pad.

Stuck In Our Head: "Tigerlily" - La Roux

It may be just us but we can hear a hint of 'The Knife' in amongst all that 80s revival stuff. Rather good.

A silly La Roux video...

You can watch La Roux's new video for "Bulletproof" here. It's an '80s' extravaganza, obviously, as Elly 'La Roux' Jackson is just all about the 80s, as they were "the best decade of all time and there will never be another decade like them" (we might be paraphrasing there). There's not much more to say about it but she looks like a boy. Again, there's nothing wrong with being a girl who looks like a boy, but it's an observation.

COVERART WARZZZZ! Part #3

Or, the Inevitable 'Sound of 2009' pop tartlet faceoff. Both Little Boots and La Roux are good pop things and we're quite excited for their debut albums. We don't really think they're anything alike, other than their stage names both start with the letter "L", but let's pointlessly compare their album artwork anyway.



Possible 'Iconic' Factor:
La Roux: 8/10 (rather striking and memorable)
Little Boots: 5/10 (busy but has potential)

Amazing/Silly Hair Factor:
La Roux: 9/10 (big, ginger minge, err... fringe)
Little Boots: 4/10 (Swiss Princess Leia)

Typography:
La Roux: 6/10 (interesting font and nice logo consistency)
Little Boots: 4/10 (hardly memorable, is it, readers?)

Photoshop Skillzzzzzzz:
La Roux: 7/10 (Elly looks shiny and robotic)
Little Boots: 8/10 (sexy space explosion)

And the winner is...
La Roux... although we're looking forward to Little Boots' album more, for the record.

Well done, La Roux...

We are aware that 'La Roux' is not a girl, it is a band. But actually, if you're being pedantic, Bat For Lashes and Marilyn Manson are bands too, not people so we're going to ignore that and just refer to them as 'her' because we don't even know what the other guy looks like and he may well not exist.

Anyway the point of this story is that La Roux's new single, the bloody ace "In For The Kill", is Top Ten on the iTunes chart, and fairly guaranteed to go top 20 in the UK Singles charts this weekend, unless something catastrophic happens, like people bulk buying Flo Rida singles (please, no).

La Roux should be specifically proud because this means that the public have somehow managed to look through the unconventionally high pitched and 'shrill' vocals, the surly look of a 14 year old teenage boy, and the inability to express emotion on stage.

They, like us, and many others on the blogosphere, have managed to look through the few annoyances to see the brilliant pop song beneath.

JESUS CHRIST

We don't know how this one passed us by, viewers. We just don't.

What it is is, is Franz Ferdinand and La Roux singing Blondie's "Call On Me" at the NME awards and it's FAIRLY AWFUL.

We like La Roux. We think she's a good thing. We know her voice is all a bit "oooh marmite" in that it's pretty much DIVIDING OPINION (like Moses and the Mer Rouge) but her new single (that one about killing people) and another one (about not being someone's dildo) are really REALLY very good pop songs indeed and we enjoy them many times a week.

The problem is, it seems, that La Roux is not just inexperienced in the art of gigging. She's also apparently completely inexperienced in the art of performance FULL STOP. Someone on the Popjustice forums said that her mum was on the Bill and her dad's an actor too (oh dear... now we know how she got on the blogz... NEPOTIZMZ!) so you'd think she might have some sort of stage presence or whatever, but apparently not.

She sort of comes on looking like an emo ginge boy and then completely fails to be interesting in any way. If Lady GaGa is setting the standard for modern pop performance (and believe us... she genuinely is) then La Roux needs to take not just a leaf, but an entire CALIFORNIAN REDWOOD out of her book.

The blank, moody stare and/slash/or blank face is a really hard thing to pull off because what it does, right, is COMPLETELY ALIENATE YOUR AUDIENCE... who, if you're making pop, as La Roux is, are usually there to DANCE and have a GOOD TIME and not be moody.

So note for future performances La Roux... a smile or a wink never goes amiss. We know you're probably nervous and new to this all and too cool to even THINK about a full-toothed grin, but puh-LEASE... even a knowing smirk would do.

Just SOMETHING to acknowledge that you are indeed performing, and not just nervously presenting something you've written but are too scared to play in assembly.

Cheers, love.

SILLY SILLY GIRL

We were going to do something about La Roux's new video for In For The Kill. It's on ok video for a quite good song by a moody androgynous ginger woman who thinks she's the 80s pop movement reborn. So quite annoying but quite good too.

Anyway we can't show you her video because EMBEDDING IS FUCKING DISABLED BY REQUEST.

How do her record label expect her career to take off via internet viralzzz and muzik blog hype if they don't let us embed her fucking video? USELESS.

As a punishment we haven't even given you a link to it. THAT WILL TEACH YOU LA ROUX.

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