Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 01/10/2010
Support Women Artists Sunday: La Roux
Eleanor Jackson of La Roux
La Roux are an English Electropop/Synthpop band made up of singer Eleanor Jackson and synth player, co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their respective roles as “very much a half and half sharing situation… not like a singer producer outfit”, but also recognizing that it often can “look like a solo act.”
Their music is influenced by 1980s synthpop including Yazoo, Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Heaven 17, and Blancmange. The band’s name originates from Jackson’s red hair; she has said
“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 androgynous anyway. So it kind of makes sense.”
Elly Jackson’s first interest in music revolved around folk music. She was particularly interested in Carole King and Nick Drake whom she discovered in her parents’ record collection.Her taste in music changed during her mid-teens when she became involved in the rave scene. Jackson has been critical of other musicians. She feels that a culture of positivity has lowered standards. Reacting to the polarization her remarks have caused, Jackson noted that she makes a distinction between a person’s work and how they are as a person. Jackson does not feel that social networking will help musicians’ careers in the long run because it makes them too accessible at the expense of mystery and intrigue.
via Wikipedia
Bulletproof
I’m Not Your Toy
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Tea @ at 12:55 pm, January 10th, 2010
what I want to know is how she gets her hair to do that without making it look like a giant gelled shell.
Waxeye @ at 1:49 pm, January 10th, 2010
Oooh! Oooh! La Roux, I love her music – or their music, rather – really interesting to read about it being a pair.
I’m particularly fond of their song In For The Kill!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVaWYkKOdY
Or maybe the html link will work
Love her bulletproof video – so refreshing to see a female artist concentrating on making an awesome video rather than on being pretty. The youtube comments tend to be, of course, focused on this crime.
KS @ at 2:29 pm, January 10th, 2010
love bulletproof! Check out the remix with Killers–it’s pretty awesome.
KS
Ruth @ at 4:24 pm, January 10th, 2010
Oh I don’t know about her, while I love her songs, she’s reported to have once said she blames women who wear what she considers scimpy clothing for being raped.
Savannah @ at 7:27 pm, January 10th, 2010
Here’s the ONTD article about what Ruth’s talking about: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/36810864.html
and the original source: http://thequietus.com/articles/01899-la-roux-interviewed-in-for-the-kill-with-elly-jackson
Zoe @ at 11:06 pm, January 10th, 2010
While I love the SWAS posts, I don’t think Elly Jackson is that good a role model. Not only does she blame girls wearing miniskirts for being raped, but in the article Savannah linked to, she also makes fun of lesbians. Feminist? I don’t think so.
Haley @ at 10:00 pm, January 13th, 2010
I don’t really care for her but she’s wrong about their band name. ‘La’ is a feminine article, while ‘roux’ is the masculine adjective for redhead. I guess you could look at it as a melding of genders but it doesn’t really work that way in French. It’s just a grammatical error straight up.
Waxeye @ at 5:13 pm, January 16th, 2010
Well damn.
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