I dislike her a lot as a person.

Some songs are just meant to be enjoyed, ya know?

Do you think when "In For The Kill' comes on in a club, people actually listen to what it is she's shreaking about? I doubt it. They just wanna dance to it.

Look at this quote...jeez:

 

"There's far more ways to be sexy than to dress in a miniskirt and a tank top … I think you attract a certain kind of man by dressing like that. Women wonder why they get beaten up, or have relationships with arsehole men. Because you attracted one, you twat."

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/...women-beaten-up

She really should just shutup.

Why should she? Why shouldn't she give her opinion? People have a right to express and say if they think. If she's asked a question why avoid answering it/sugarcoat it with a generic "nicey" response. I don't necessarily agree with her but I don't think she should "shut up" or is a "cünt" because she says what she believes in. If anything it's refreshing to see a popstar who's properly 3D. Someone who isn't boobs and a miniskirt. She uses her music to sell her product not sex or blonde hair. She's the antithesis of what is convential pop and to have made it so big whilst failing to sacrifice who she obviously is makes her in my eyes, nothing short of fantastic.

Why should she? Why shouldn't she give her opinion? People have a right to express and say if they think. If she's asked a question why avoid answering it/sugarcoat it with a generic "nicey" response. I don't necessarily agree with her but I don't think she should "shut up" or is a "cünt" because she says what she believes in. If anything it's refreshing to see a popstar who's properly 3D. Someone who isn't boobs and a miniskirt. She uses her music to sell her product not sex or blonde hair. She's the antithesis of what is convential pop and to have made it so big whilst failing to sacrifice who she obviously is makes her in my eyes, nothing short of fantastic.

 

That's the point I think she's constantly trying to make too, "I don't use sex to sell"/"my music sells itself" blah blah etc etc but I think this is so tired and boring now. Maybe that would've been applicable in 1999 but not now. I think there are loads of females out there now that don't use sex to sell or sacrifice anything to sell their music; all your Lily Allens, Kate Nash, Santogold, MIA, Florence etc etc. So I don't think she's an antithesis of a pop star at all. I think she fits in quite neatly with the current trend that list makers seem to love; girls doing it for themselves. And this is why she pisses me off; because her music does sell itself, I enjoy it and think it's good. Yet she's constantly coming out with these silly quotes trying to look like the hard done to pop star who's made it despite being surrounded by silicone boobs and fake hair. Yawn yawn yawn.

OMG isn't just too early :nocheer:

 

and she already attacked Lady GaGa/The Saturdays/R'n'B music :huh:

I don't really agree with her at all. But I agree with Jake; I don't mind pop stars / mainstream artists with an opinion, even if it's ridiculous. I've always loved Lily Allen even when people constantly ragged on her on BJ years ago; she was refreshing. So is La Roux. Wooz.

These outbursts are what makes Elly edgy though - Remeber when Lily Allen first emerged? She wouldn't have got a TV show if she kept her mouth shut all the time!

 

I don't agree with most of what she says but atleast its good entertainment :P

These outbursts are what makes Elly edgy though - Remeber when Lily Allen first emerged? She wouldn't have got a TV show if she kept her mouth shut all the time!

 

I don't agree with most of what she says but atleast its good entertainment :P

 

But what she says isn't edgy - it's boring and idiotic. I'm all for pop stars having an opinion and voicing it, my point is that I don't think La Roux is endearing anyone to her by voicing hers. When Lily Allen slagged Madonna off, people went "yeah, Lily's right, Madonna is irrelevant." When La Roux starts talking about why woman are abused she sounds like an idiotic 13 year old.

But what she says isn't edgy - it's boring and idiotic. I'm all for pop stars having an opinion and voicing it, my point is that I don't think La Roux is endearing anyone to her by voicing hers. When Lily Allen slagged Madonna off, people went "yeah, Lily's right, Madonna is irrelevant." When La Roux starts talking about why woman are abused she sounds like an idiotic 13 year old.

 

I vividly remember people constantly complaining about Lily Allen when I first joined for what she was saying. I really didn't see many people agreeing with her. I find Lily a more interesting artist than La Roux to be honest, but it's refreshing to see an artist actually saying something mildly controversial rather than the usual sucking up.

She is right in a way, but not all of R&B music is empty.

She's been making it really hard for me to like her music.

 

She seems like quite an insufferable bitch.

She's been making it really hard for me to like her music.

 

She seems like quite an insufferable bitch.

I agree and I have to say I don't really get the hype around her/them/whatever. :blink:

I don't really agree with her at all. But I agree with Jake; I don't mind pop stars / mainstream artists with an opinion, even if it's ridiculous. I've always loved Lily Allen even when people constantly ragged on her on BJ years ago; she was refreshing. So is La Roux. Wooz.

 

Yes, but La Roux has the SAME management and uses the same PR agency as Lily Allen.

 

Hell, like Lily she is being worshipped by the NME and has even released a debut album that is rather patchy, where certain songs cry out as singles material and the other half of the album cry out album filler. Whilst posessing a mediocre voice at best. So I expect her album to be nominated for the Mercury Music Album of The Year & BRIT album of the Year but not win. Then she will suffer a backlash, disappear and comeback 18 months later with a vastly improved voice due to having vocal training, and release a vastly superior second album.

 

So her comments are rather ironic, because she is following a formula herself.

I agree with 70% of what she said. I find R&B from today very very boring and annoying. Not a patch on the old R&B. While pop reinvented himself many times, r&B seems really very formulatic to me. The genre of the "light" music i enjoy the less.

Yes, but La Roux has the SAME management and uses the same PR agency as Lily Allen.

 

Hell, like Lily she is being worshipped by the NME and has even released a debut album that is rather patchy, where certain songs cry out as singles material and the other half of the album cry out album filler. Whilst posessing a mediocre voice at best. So I expect her album to be nominated for the Mercury Music Album of The Year & BRIT album of the Year but not win. Then she will suffer a backlash, disappear and comeback 18 months later with a vastly improved voice due to having vocal training, and release a vastly superior second album.

 

So her comments are rather ironic, because she is following a formula herself.

 

As a side note, I have to say Lily Allen's first album may well be my favourite album ever. Or in my all time top 3 for sure.

 

La Roux is obivously a bit too harsh in her comments. She can't criticize the whole r'n'b scene because I don't think she knows all of it. Yes, the commercial r'n'b at the top of the charts is well often poor, but there are lots of "hidden" or less famous r'n'b artists that are making amazing music. If she doesn't know them, she can only blame herself for not looking more for "underground" r'n'b artists.

That's the point I think she's constantly trying to make too, "I don't use sex to sell"/"my music sells itself" blah blah etc etc but I think this is so tired and boring now. Maybe that would've been applicable in 1999 but not now. I think there are loads of females out there now that don't use sex to sell or sacrifice anything to sell their music; all your Lily Allens, Kate Nash, Santogold, MIA, Florence etc etc. So I don't think she's an antithesis of a pop star at all. I think she fits in quite neatly with the current trend that list makers seem to love; girls doing it for themselves. And this is why she pisses me off; because her music does sell itself, I enjoy it and think it's good. Yet she's constantly coming out with these silly quotes trying to look like the hard done to pop star who's made it despite being surrounded by silicone boobs and fake hair. Yawn yawn yawn.

All those females you suggest though are fairly alt/NME-leaning artists or Singer/Songwriter types. La Roux is doing Pop in the most mainstream of fields whilst having the most anti-pop image. I don't think she fits with any of the others. Lily Allen is mainstream in every sense now from image to music. Kate Nash is very 2006 and Santogold/MIA/Florence haven't gone overtly mainstream and instead had peripheral success and in Florence's case she's appealing to the alt/more mature crowd she's not wanting to do POP POP POP in the same way La Roux is, your examples are a tad ill-fitting imo to the point you are trying to project.

 

Also what everyone seems to forget is with these interviews is that comments get taken out of context and mass-produced and become a bit inescapable for BJ-type people who follow music closely. Sites like Digital Spy et al regurgitate interview extracts all the time and magnify the qualities we come to expect from our pop artists and with La Roux it's her "whinging".

 

Trying to look "hard done"? I don't think she's trying to look hard done by at all. She's had mass success. You seem to just be reading into her reasoning as if she has ulterior motives which I don't see at all. Everyone seems to think she has some sort of agenda through asserting her opinion. She wants sympathy or for people to take her more seriously. I don't know why she invites such suspicion but is there not the possibility that she may well be just responding to questions she is asked?

LOL I love her album but she just generalize too frickin much! I mean WTF :mellow: :blink: :wacko:

Yes, but La Roux has the SAME management and uses the same PR agency as Lily Allen.

 

Hell, like Lily she is being worshipped by the NME and has even released a debut album that is rather patchy, where certain songs cry out as singles material and the other half of the album cry out album filler. Whilst posessing a mediocre voice at best. So I expect her album to be nominated for the Mercury Music Album of The Year & BRIT album of the Year but not win. Then she will suffer a backlash, disappear and comeback 18 months later with a vastly improved voice due to having vocal training, and release a vastly superior second album.

 

So her comments are rather ironic, because she is following a formula herself.

LOL proof she is following YOUR formula at this moment in time? You make me LOL sometimes TIPs :lol:

LOL I love her album but she just generalize too frickin much! I mean WTF :mellow: :blink: :wacko:

Same here. :mellow:

It's true that female artists don't need to look sexy and anything to sell.

But why she has to talk about woman getting beaten and anything? It's none of her business.