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Old 14th July 2010, 07:55 PM
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The 1st Official Thread of ~La Roux~



La Roux ("The Red Haired One" in French) are an English electropop and synthpop duo made up of singer, keyboardist, co-writer and co-producer Eleanor Jackson (born 12 March 1988), and keyboardist, 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 British synthpop including Yazoo, Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Heaven 17 and Blancmange.


Has anyone heard of them? I just discovered them about a month ago and I AM inlove!!!! They are so amazing! They're music has a strong electronic kind of 80s sound to it...it's really neat! They're most famous single is Bulletproof I'm pretty sure...I know that's how I discovered them.
Here's links to the videos they have (it wouldn't let me embed it sorry ):

Bulletproof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQdC7...next=1&index=1

In For the Kill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1Mi77nogQ

I'm Not Your Toy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7IGE58IPgo
(This is a really weird video rofl!)

And then one of my personal favorites from the album :

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Old 14th July 2010, 08:02 PM
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Didn't know she was that young! Just a few months older than me.
Anyway I love her music. Bulletproof has been on repeat on my spotify for quite some time now.
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Old 14th July 2010, 08:18 PM
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^ Yeah I know. She's only like three years older than me

Bulletproof is an amazing song...I love the way she sings in it. I kind of wish she sang like that throughout the duration of the album, but either way her vocals are actually really good. I was surprised to discover she was British lol...you can't really hear her accent in Bulletproof but you can REALLY hear it in all of her other songs .
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Old 14th July 2010, 08:46 PM
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She must be coming around with a new album soon, right? Didn't La Roux get released in '08? Does she have a blog that you can follow?

PS: I feel really old now >.<
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I don't like the other songs as much as bulletproof.....
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La Roux made a huge impression on the U.K last year I first bought her album last year too, and I really loved it.
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i ran into La Roux months and months back when itunes in the US featured bulletproof as a free download. i liked it, but the rest of her songs didn't really grab my attention. i should probably go back and try them again.

i will say though, i'm a little obsessed with her hair. it looks so damn amazing!
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^ Yeah I know I love her hair soooo much lol. It's so unique!

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She must be coming around with a new album soon, right? Didn't La Roux get released in '08? Does she have a blog that you can follow?

PS: I feel really old now >.<


You're not old don't be silly! It was early 2009 that she released the album and I don't know if she's releasing anything new yet but that would be spectacular! I gotta look around for her blog now
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I've been digging La Roux since hearing "Bulletproof" on the radio a few weeks ago.

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I feel really old now >.<
Me too, lol. And I'm older than Eleanor Jackson too.
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sorry but...

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92794
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I really really REALLY love In For The Kill, I don't really care for many of her other songs though. I like her voice though, it's strange and weird <3
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cant we please please keep this one. :3

the first post is sooooo pretty O.O

anyway i LOVES La Roux. . .and and.. . i love the lovely ms. jackson's hair. its just so awesome. and her voice
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That totally did not come up on the search (that thing does not work very well) lol. Well then I guess we could switch over to the other one .

Oh and thanx StrawberrySnow, but it's only fair that we post in the first one. Plus, the title is a lot more creative lol.
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