June 21, 200916 yr Very cheesey. Type of record you'll hate in 3 months time. Yep, that certainly describes 'In For The Kill' to a tee.
June 22, 200916 yr Bulletproof is her least worst single to date. Probably as it sounds like a cover of an unknown late 1980s Erasure single that never was. Although I can spot the verse rips off Blancmange's verse to their 1983 hit Living On The Ceiling a mile off. I do wonder in 24 months time whether the British public will look back and wonder why they took to La Roux over Little Boots; Florence & The Machine; Ladyhawke or Marina & The Diamonds as personally I think she is the least impressive of all those acts.
June 22, 200916 yr I fail to see how this (or IFTK for that matter) is in ANY WAY cheesy? :blink: Anyway, the 7" arrived today :wub: Very loffly. The artwork is on the 7" itself, which is actually a square with the vinyl built into it, so 'tis vair pretties. This must go to #1 :heart:
June 22, 200916 yr I went in HMV Oxford Circus and all the 7" had actual La Roux signatures written on the front. Is this fake or did she actually sign them all? If so I just got a bargain for £1.99 :P
June 23, 200916 yr http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/livelounge/art...23_laroux.shtml i can't say i'm keen on that version..
June 23, 200916 yr Wow that was dire. She sounded like she couldn't be bothered. Why do the whole song so high? Edited June 23, 200916 yr by Rain
June 24, 200916 yr I'm very surprised that it's going to be number one and that it's just that huge :o http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q6L2S4xQRYI/ScdloefIXWI/AAAAAAAABPM/xNc-xGrBEgg/s320/larouxsmile.jpg
June 24, 200916 yr I'm really pleased that she's got her first #1 in the bag etc. The song has grown on me a lot and yet it still doesn't come close to IFTK, Quicksand or RAP - which all deserve #1 a hell lot more. I think because IFTK was so unexpectedly huge and almost got no.1, her follow-up was going to be just as big anyway, irrespective of if it was better or worse than IFTK. IFTK and Bulletproof are likely to be equal on the the YE chart as far as sales are concerned so the peak says nothing about the song, and if IFTK was released at this exact time it would've been as huge/even huger than what Bulletproof is now. I've begun to appreciate the verses much more now, as most of you pointed out are highlights of the song. Although I still favour the chorus. :wub: BUT the bridge is just like the poorest most LQ bridge I've ever heard, on first listen I thought the song completely died/finished meanwhile it's some odd bridge ruining what could've been a perfect song. The backing instruments put me off a lot as well, IFTK's backing was amaze and grabbed your attention from the start and kept it throughout the song but with Bulletproof I just have no idea where it's going. But being the complete mess it is, it's still won me over lol. Quicksand re-release for 3rd single, I'm Not Your Toy would turn out an utter disaster.
June 24, 200916 yr Definitely the weakest of her singles - the chorus is just annoying. In fact, it's the kind of record that a) makes me wish this was an instrumental B) makes me really wonder if a whole album listening to her voice is humanly possible. Shame as I really wanted La Roux to be fabulous... but this single (destined for number one, of course), is just pants. As for someone asking why someone else called this record cheesey....err.... are you actually listening to the song or just getting dreamily carried away on all the ridiculous hype? Someone on this thread said it sounds like some throwaway Erasure song. And they're almost right..... however, La Roux seems to have stolen the Yazoo songbook for this one... the backing track is a mash-up of just aboutg every Yazoo record there ever was. Also, thisispop..... Little Boots better than La Roux? Little Boots is just toe-curlingly bad...... this La Roux single? It's just bad - pop fluff bad.... and this is possibly the weakest follow-on single from a storming pop classic I can recall in many a year.
June 25, 200916 yr Definitely the weakest of her singles - the chorus is just annoying. In fact, it's the kind of record that a) makes me wish this was an instrumental B) makes me really wonder if a whole album listening to her voice is humanly possible. Shame as I really wanted La Roux to be fabulous... but this single (destined for number one, of course), is just pants. As for someone asking why someone else called this record cheesey....err.... are you actually listening to the song or just getting dreamily carried away on all the ridiculous hype? Someone on this thread said it sounds like some throwaway Erasure song. And they're almost right..... however, La Roux seems to have stolen the Yazoo songbook for this one... the backing track is a mash-up of just aboutg every Yazoo record there ever was. Also, thisispop..... Little Boots better than La Roux? Little Boots is just toe-curlingly bad...... this La Roux single? It's just bad - pop fluff bad.... and this is possibly the weakest follow-on single from a storming pop classic I can recall in many a year. I think you are wrong. Bar Remedy, Little Boots debut is a brilliant album. The same certainly could not be said of La Roux's album. Whom I would be embarrassed to compare with the peerless (anonymous male muso/engagingly barking female visual figurehead-singer combo acts) Goldfrapp & The Dresden Dolls, as it is an insult to those two great acts. w7QqzRV4xqs La Roux - Bulletproof - Live Lounge Video nwXWS-box04 La Roux - Farewell To The Fairground - Live lounge Video Call me old fashioned (in this Britney Spears miming in concert and gettting away with it age when it was completely unacceptable to do that 20 years ago, I guess I must be), but I like lead singers to be able to ....well ... be able to sing which from the evidence of those two performances Elly seems to struggle to be able to do. I think The Word magazine review comparing both albums with Human League albums (Little Boots = Dare; La Roux = Hysteria) was spot on. The fact that the same reviewer fully acknowledged the fact that Little Boots record company/PR have completely screwed up her media hype release campaign; whereas in contrast La Roux's has run a flawless campaign is not lost, and is precisely why La Roux will have a huge selling album; when Little Boots has already died a death.
June 25, 200916 yr La Roux was vocally excellent live when I saw her supporting Lily Allen earlier in the year, so the live lounge disaster was hopefully just a one off I'm yet to listen to the album, but I have seen incredibly mixed reviews so far, Channel 4 teletext was the latest one I read, giving it 6/10 and calling it 'gauche and leaden. Fun if hardly the revolution.' Yet Jake and Ben's high praise suggests otherwise and gives me renewed hope for it...
June 25, 200916 yr The only good album track is Cover My Eyes :heart: thats just amazing :wub: the rest just isn't that good.
June 25, 200916 yr Amazing record! :wub: Colourless Color is probably the favourite from the whole album so far.
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