My fondness for La Roux can't possibly shock anybody as much as it does me, she really is not what I would normally choose to listen to, in fact, as I'm getting older, there seems to be less and less new stuff that I find my self liking, but La Roux really appears to have struck a chord for me. But, as I sit here listening to "In For The Kill" at full blast on my headphones, so as not to annoy the grumpy man downstairs, it got me thinking; why the heck do I like La Roux so much?
 
I'd like to say that La Roux is completely original, and that is why I like her. But, really, she's as original as Paris Hilton! La Roux is quite frankly, little more than a 1980s throw back. With technological sounding background noise, her shrilly, could break glass, voice, and her slightly masculine persona made feminine with verging on over the top make up, La Roux would fit quite comfortably beside 1980's legends such as Annie Lennox. So, is it a nostalgia kick that makes me like her? Well, no. I wasn't born until 1983, so the music of the eighties really plays fruitlessly in my memories, confined merely to the box of music that my much older brother perhaps listened to. My nostalgia kicks lie firmly in the nineties I'm afraid.
 
But, when you compare her to a lot of the crap that gets churned out these days in the music industry, I guess she is original in a sense, but more in a "breathe of fresh air" kind of way, than being something new. A lot of bands are beginning to sound ever-more like eighties bands, but there are few female artists that try, and actually succeed, to revive the eighties as eminently as La Roux has. She might not have the greatest voice, or the best looks, but being completely honest, neither did Annie Lennox.

It really is not surprising to discover that their main influences include: 1980s pop icons Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Yazoo and Prince.