2. Primary source
Love, love is like a stubborn youthThat you'd
rather just denyI'm walking on a broken roofWhile
I'm looking at the sky
It's all false love and affectionYou don't want me
you just like the attentionYes It's all false love
and affectionYou don't like me you just want the
attention
I'm not your toyThis isn't another girl meets boy
[repeat 2x]
Love, love hides in a smoky lightI can never find
the truthBoy, your touches leave me mystifiedI
wish I could believe in you
Yes It's all false love and affectionYou don't want
me you just like the attentionYes It's all false love
and affectionYou don't like me you just want the
attention
I'm not your toyThis isn't another girl meets boy
[repeat 3x]
It's all false love and affectionYou don't want me you
just like the attentionYes It's all false love and
affectionYou don't like me you just want the
attention
[Instrumental Break]
I'm not your toyThis isn't another girl meets boy
[repeat 4x]
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Tonight out on the streets I'm gonna follow youTell you all
about a scene that you would kill forYou're gonna love
what's burning right in front of you But you won't see it by
the light of the sun
Come out Tiger lily, you're caressing meI'll take you up, I'll
turn you on, I'll take your apathyI wouldn't lie to you
blossom, won't you let it go?I'm gonna give you all you
want and don't you knowThat you, I know you better than
thisI could be here when you call, I'll make you top of the
listAnd in the crush of the dark I'll be your light in the mistI
can see you burning with desire for a kissPsychobabble all
upon your lips
They can sell it all they want but you cannot agreeI don't
like the taste of their moralityYou'll find your bread and
your butter where you fake it And put your face in the
gutter of a snake pitHave you ever felt like you're being
followedOr watched the ones that held your stare?Turned
around to see who's behind you to find there's no one
there?
Lurking in the dark, there's someone who breathes you
night and dayThere's a friend who wants so much
moreAnd if they can't have you they'll never let you
walk away
And in the crush of the dark I'll be your light in the mistI
can see you burning with desire for a kissAnd in the
crush of the dark I'll be your light in the mistI can see
you burning with desire for a kissPsychobabble all
upon your lipsBut our communication is telepathyWhat
you give is what you get out of us naturallyAnd we can
wait 'til the shadow grows longAnd turn the page of a
story that has long since found a home
I know you better than thisI could be here when you
call, I'll make you top of the listAnd in the crush of the
dark, I'll be your light in the mist
I can see you burning with desire for a
kissPsychobabble all upon your lips
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No wonder I'm scared to look in your eyes
You've turned me away so many times
You can take it away at any given moment
It's hard to believe while you're in this disguise
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
I'm just surviving
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
Stop me from crying
when I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes (I have to cover my eyes)
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies (Something inside of
me dies)
No wonder it hurts to sit by your side(Turned me
away so many times)
There's a different song I can play you tonight
(We don't have to sit here in silence)
We can break the pattern, we can change the color
(It's just a little sacrifice)
You don't need to worry about the others (It's all in
your mind)
so would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
I'm just surviving
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
Stop me from crying
When I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes (I have to cover my eyes)
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies (Something inside of
me dies) [repeat 2 xs]
Something inside of me dies
when I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes (cover my eyes, cover my
eyes, cover my eyes)
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies (Something inside of
me dies) x3
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How much hair product do you think you use a month to get hair as awesome as yours?
Oh, wow, I don‘t know. In a month, usually one can of mousse, intense mousse. You don‘t need much
wax but there‘s that, and also very strong hairspray.
You’re an electronic powerhouse now, but you used to be more inclined to folk music
when you first started out.
It wasn‘t like we decided to electronic music out of the blue or anything. It just happened really
naturally. My dad taught me guitar from the age of 6 and I was introduced to all music: rock and
blues, folk. As a kid I liked Joni Mitchell a lot. I guess it was just kind of natural to write in that style. I
wrote songs from the age of 12 and that‘s where I pulled inspiration from. If you think about it, Paul
Simon is pretty synthy — and you can quote me on that — people like Stevie Wonder also can fall into
this. When I met Ben I‘d written a lot of songs in a folk kind of area, and the more we wrote together,
it just became a bit passé to us and we took it out of the tracks to start to go more dance.
7. For you, where is the line between creating original content and paying tribute?
I think there is a bit of both in what we do. It‘s kind of annoyed me when people have taken the 50s or
the 60s [to incorporate into their music], and people don‘t bat an eyelid, but when you put the 80s in,
people go, ―What the fuck is wrong with you?‖ I mean, you weren‘t there in the 50s, and then the
counter is ―But don‘t you like rock and roll?‖ It‘s like the 80s have this tainted thing on it. There is a
lot of the revival of the leggings and spandex and American Apparel going on, but there was a classy
cool romantic appeal that we‘re appealing to, not the neon part. More Tears For Fears side.
(http://www.thefader.com/2009/04/15/five-questions-for-la-roux/ )
In an interview with NME the Bulletproof star said: "It's a lot cheekier. Not 'Touch my
Bum' cheeky or Carry On cheeky - just slightly suggestive."
So why has it taken so long to the follow up the hit single Bulletproof?
"I'm proud of that record, but what's the point in rushing the follow-up? I would rather it was
amazing."
And with all the great chart toppers at the moment, surely they feel pressure to create
an even better record than their debut?
"I'm not going to lie, I felt lots of pressure," she said. "What we did on the first record was great. If it
was s**t it would have been like, 'Oh it doesn't matter what we do because it's going to be better'
(http://popdash.com/news/8620/la-roux-promise-more-suggestive-second-album )
Everyone is so excited to hear some new material.
So am I actually. It‘s weird because it‘s difficult to talk about it as when you make a record so many
things change over the course of making it. I could say now ‗It‘s a bit like this and it‘s a bit like that‘
but then in a few months‘ time it could be completely different. But I think we are nearing settling on a
style but there‘s still a lot of work to do. We have written a few things but I‘m about to go on holiday so
that will put it on hold for a bit. I‘m not telling anyone where I‘m going just in case as I really, really
want to be left alone! We‘ve been in the studio on and off for a bit but we only finished touring at
Christmas and I‘ve been taking some time out as I‘ve got loads of things to do to my house as it needs
renovating. In order to write a record about anything real I kind of need to have a life again. Obviously
I have a great time when I‘m working but who wants to hear an album about me being in a tour bus or
having some hummus in a dressing room? Of course there are stresses with being on tour as you do
get tired and you do get homesick but I don‘t want to f**king write about it at all. It‘s just not
something that I want to write about. So I‘ve got that element of figuring out what the subject matter
of the album is and there‘s definitely more of a sexual element.
What do you mean – is La Roux going to become La Raunchy?!
It‘s difficult to explain it and I‘m scared that if it gets edited down then it‘s going to sound like I‘m
writing a sex album! Basically I think I‘ve come across in the past as almost as if I don‘t like that kind
of sexual element to music or entertainment. But I do. I do like a sexual element side to a lot of things
but I don‘t like it to be in an overtly kind of obvious way. I think the sexiest things about people – and
it‘s obviously people that we‘re talking about as that‘s where sex comes from – are the subtitles about
them and the mysteries about things that you don‘t know. The thing that makes you attracted to
somebody is when you don‘t know what‘s going on. If someone comes up to you, straddles you and
says ‗I want to f**k now‘ that isn‘t sexy, not that I‘ve ever had it happen to me! There may be some
blokes out there that find that sexy but I certainly f**king don‘t. I just think the way sex is portrayed in
a lot of songs and a lot of music videos make it very unsexy. I don‘t necessarily have a massive
problem with it apart from when it‘s being marketed to eight-year-olds and then I sort-of do. I want
the sound of the record to be a lot sexier but not in an ‗I‘m going to f**k you in a club‘ sort of way. I
want it to be old-fashioned sex and old-fashioned sexy – a bit of mystery and a bit of a smoky kind-of
8. slickness. Also with my voice I want it to be a lot deeper and a lot sexier as well because there‘s an area
of my voice which has opened up recently and I never knew I had it. I think it‘s going to be more like
that than me talking about sex. I also want to get in an element of a lot of things that I have seen over
the last couple of years that aren‘t to do with work – like character traits in people that you begin to
notice as you get older and begin to know more people. There is a lot of character traits that you never
thought would apply to you or that would apply to your friends or that you would ever justify in
anyone – like how the darker side of your mind works. Or if you are about to do something that you
know you shouldn‘t do but yet you do it anyway and it‘s the thought process that leads to that. It will
mean singing songs about observational stories where I‘ve seen people go and do things where you
can tell they don‘t feel right about it – like going and having an affair – and it‘s that thought process
which leads you there and makes you justify it. Hopefully it should be good.
When do you expect to finish up the record and get it released?
We have got a way to go yet so I wouldn‘t expect anything this side of Christmas. The first record took
us a long time as we didn‘t rush and we were very, very happy with the results and the rest of our fans
seem to have been as well. I literally don‘t believe in, or buy into this whole rush culture of if you don‘t
have something out this year then no-one will f**king buy it. It‘s a load of b*****ks. People bought our
record when they had never heard who we were before. There are people there and they want to hear
the music. If the music is s**t then of course no-one will buy it but if it‘s a great record and a really
good progression then I do believe people will buy it. All I need to do is make sure that it is good.
Do you have a wish-list of anyone you would like to work with on the record?
I wouldn‘t like to work with anyone. Obviously we have done a couple of collaborations that I wouldn‘t
necessarily have thought I would do and they have been good for whatever reasons and it‘s nice to
meet other musicians. But I think when it comes to your own record there shouldn‘t be collaborations
on there. It‘s different for rap artists because they need a singer or a singer needs a rapper in a verse so
I‘m not saying I‘m totally against it but for us we write everything that we do and there isn‘t really a
necessity for it. I don‘t really think there is anyone right that would work for what we do either or for
what we are about to do. I think it can look a bit unfocused as well. I think if you have about ten
rappers on an album you can look it and think ‗Hang on, how much of it is really you?‘
(http://deanpiper.com/2011/04/10/exclusive-interview-la-roux-star-elly-jackson/ )
You first came to a lot of people’s attention when you placed fifth in the BBC’s “Sound
Of 2009” poll at the start of the year. At that stage, you had one limited edition single
and a couple of songs on MySpace, and you hadn’t yet played live. So how did all these
tipsters find out about you?
I think it was just an industry buzz. That BBC poll was based on 130 people in the music industry –
and that is pretty much most of the music industry, to be honest. People in the music industry had
known about me for about a year, so it wasn‘t that shocking. We didn‘t know if we would definitely be
in it – but to be honest, I really don‘t care. I know that‘s really bad. You know, I‘m not dissing the BBC
or anything…
But you were glad of it? You didn’t think: oh shit, I’m not ready yet, stop?
Not at all – it came at the perfect moment. And it was the perfect position. I wouldn‘t have wanted to
be any higher. If you‘re at Number One in that poll, you deserve a fuck of a lot of expectation. You‘ve
got to have your album ready, then you‘ve got to come back with a whole load of press – a whole load
of bang, bang, and bang – or people forget.
I think being at Number Five is a nice thing, because it‘s slow and gradual. But I don‘t think it makes
any fucking difference whatsoever. Yeah, it‘s important, and we wouldn‘t have had as much awareness
without that poll. But in terms of meaning anything real, it‘s not going to affect record sales or
9. anything like that. It doesn‘t matter whether you‘re in the poll not; if you‘ve got strong songs and a
good label behind you and good management, it‘s going to work.
Do you still keep tabs on what people are saying about you in the press, or is that a bad
idea at this stage? Do you Google yourself, for instance?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Do you know what? I have absolutely no interest. I don‘t go on
YouTube. I check my front page messages on MySpace, but that is literally it. You only have to read
one nasty thing about you on the Internet to make you never want to look for it again. It‘s just not
worth it. For every five people who like you, there‘s going to be five people who don‘t like you.
And anyway, it‘s all losers on the Internet. Anyone who‘s got enough time to fucking sit there and
comment and slag people off… It‘s nice to write positive things, and if people feel compelled to write
positive things, that are different. I don‘t think that means you‘re a loser or anything…
It’s easy to hate…
How much of a sad bastard have you got to be to fucking sit there and slag people off on the Internet
all day? Get a life, seriously!
What stage are you at with the album?
Oh, the album‘s finished. It‘s all done. It‘s out in June. We‘ve been writing it for four years.
Is that four years as a duo with Ben [Langmaid]?
Yeah. It was essentially a solo act, until we realized that it wasn‘t a solo act – in that it‘s not just a
producer/singer situation. We produce together, and we write the lyrics together, and so it was more
of a Goldfrapp thing. The songs are all about my life, and I‘m the front woman, and I am ―La Roux‖ –
but in the studio, we are a band and it‘s like Goldfrapp.
[Ben] doesn‘t come out live or anything. He‘s just not really interested, and I am the ―face‖, as it were,
of La Roux.
I mean, I am La Roux – but we are La Roux at the same time. It‘s kind of confusing.
(http://mikeatkinson.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/interview-elly-jackson-la-roux/ )