Songbirds ; One Believes in Fairies, One Is Cripplingly Shy and One Still Lives with Her Hippie Parents - and yet These Girls Are Music's Hottest Properties. Meet the Sounds of the Summer
Evening Standard - London › July 10, 2009
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La Roux
By her own admission, Elly Jackson, the face of acclaimed pop- synth duo La Roux, has a fiercely androgynous appearance. 'I look like a cross between Tilda Swinton and Annie Lennox. You can't get more androgynous than that,' she says, from the depths of a large leather chair in the Paramount members' club. 'I love androgyny because it is mysterious. There is nothing mysterious about a dress and a pair of heels.'See the full content of this document
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Songbirds ; One Believes in Fairies, One Is Cripplingly Shy and One Still Lives with Her Hippie Parents - and yet These Girls Are Music's Hottest Properties. Meet the Sounds of the Summer
Indeed, today the 21-year-old is wearing a jacket that blazes with flashes of neon and an outsized medallion of the Queen, while her hair is a vertical swoop of red which she fusses with constantly, especially when talking about the stresses attendant to her new celebrity - her single 'Bulletproof' has just reached number one. 'It's not something you have the time to take in, so I have only just started to feel the pressure. Life before seems so distant. Two days ago it hit me and I started freaking out slightly.'
In her time of need, Elly turned to someone who has had similar experiences, texting Lily Allen, whom she recently supported on tour, to say that things were getting on top ...See the full content of this document
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