June 30, 200916 yr The album is amazing, it's #1 in midweeks! :wub: I hope they decide to re-release Quicksand as the 3rd or 4th single.
July 6, 200916 yr BOO2U MICHAEL JACKSON. Well, come on, everyone's doing it to Cascada so I don't see why I can't do it to him for blocking the best 2/3rds of a pop album of the year thus far and a fairly decent other 1/3 -_- Oh, and am I the only one who has noticed the hidden plot line running throughout the album? :o Rather excellent actually, the whole thing (if my theory is correct and I haven't just been analysing it as a result of listening to it too much :heehee:) is about Elly killing her lover and hooking up with her accomplice...who then ditches her and snitches on her, with the last third of the album vaguely relating to the consequences. TO DETAIL: In For The Kill: bit obv really, a message to her accomplice... Tigerlily: I think this is a simultaneous message to the accomplice and her lover...it could be interpreted both ways, but I'm leaning towards most of the song being to the accomplice and the spoken-word part being an aside directed towards her lover, although s/he can't hear obv :drama: Quicksand: Prelude to the murder? :o States some of the reasons for it, as well as Elly's uncertainty over whether to go ahead with it or not. She decides in the middle eight to go with it. After all, all the lover does is push her back in the dark ;o I imagine the murder occurring during the instrumental before the final chorus, with the screams of the lover represented in the 'oooh's LOL. Bulletproof: A sardonic message to the dead body of her lover. I can very much imagine a wry delivery of the 'I won't let you turn around and tell me now I'm much too proud to walk away from something when it's dead' :heehee: A sign of confidence/arrogance as well? Bulletproof providing the obv legal metaphor... Colourless Colour: A sign of regret perhaps? The getaway with the accomplice to a bolthole filled with 'early 90s decor', before Elly realises that the murder was really all that brought them together - they have 'nothing left to play for' - and that she really doesn't know him/her well enough ('You know me well/But I don't know you at all'). I'm Not Your Toy: OBV a bitch-off to the accomplice (under this theory :P), who starts playing with Elly at a time when she still hasn't gotten over her uncertainty towards her new lover. This then leads to... Cover My Eyes: She drives her lover/accomplice away and this serves as the climax of her guilt and regrets - at the murder and at having driven him/her away to another lover, and the resulting implications of such a move. As If By Magic: Drunken Elly is stuck in the underworld, filled with her regrets and her reluctance to return to society, given she's still on the run. However, all those vices are doing a rather handsome job of blotting out her guilt and dependence on her dead lover and her accomplice, hence the chorus :P Fascination: Two weeks on from the events of Cover My Eyes, Elly is driven to stalking her accomplice - even though she herself realises that she needs to move on to newer pastures, but can't quite bring herself to do so, despite the awkwardness of the relationship that exists. Reflections Are Protection: Elly realises the stupidity of her actions which have led to her getting snitched - hence the search parties being on their way :P Quite how one could interpret 'reflections' is up for debate, but her mental state is pretty shoddy at this point so could this be a sign of her insanity and delusions? It seems however from the second verse that she's realising at least that her relationship with the accomplice was just a facade... Armour Love: I think this is a narrative of her experiences told throughout the album - she believed she belonged to somebody else, is now lonely etc. The armour serves as a metaphor against the consequences, DON'T MAKE ME INVOKE JORDIN TO EXPLAIN THAT ONE -_- Growing Pains: Post-meltdown, Elly commentates on the relationship. Back to some semblance of normality, she's realised the relationship is basically over for good - with undertones hinting at her accomplice blaming it partly on her regrets over the murder. It's a tad open-ended as to the consequences of the murder... Either that, or it's just a collection of songs that fit together prettily LOL. Yeah, I've probably just been listening too much...
July 6, 200916 yr i saw la roux perform on alan carrs chat show and im 99% she sang live and i really enjoyed it as i havent really got into their music so far, but that performance won me over
July 6, 200916 yr Love your ideas Trash, I'll think of that next time I listen :wub: Great album tbh, my third favourite pop album of the year already, may overtake Little Boots for second soon :P
July 7, 200916 yr Her performance on Alan Carr 2Mwz-QaXSiM Unlike the one on Radio 1 she sounds good. I like her again :D (watch the drummer at 1.04 :lol:)
July 9, 200916 yr i'm loving this album. as if by magic is definitely my best of the songs that haven't yet been released. closely followed by reflections are protections and colourless colour.
July 24, 200915 yr Performing "Bulletproof" on Jimmy Kimmel NGBrZCeUIpk Good for them for trying to conquer America.
February 17, 201114 yr Amazing. Bitch needs to GET BACK with her second album and stop scaring me with claims that she's completely abandoning her sound.
February 17, 201114 yr SAMEE Although it sounds like they're putting A LOT of work in - she said she won't be happy until they have Bulletproof and IFTL level songs in terms of quality, so that's good I suppose
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