La Roux

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Eleanor Jackson from La Roux (2010)
Eleanor Jackson from La Roux (2010)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
La Roux
  DE 54 07/10/2009 (13 weeks)
  AT 34 07/31/2009 (15 weeks)
  CH 54 07/12/2009 (10 weeks)
  UK 2 
platinum
platinum
07/11/2009 (43 weeks)
  US 70 10/10/2009 (21 weeks)
Trouble in Paradise
  DE 33 08/01/2014 (1 week)
  AT 50 08/01/2014 (1 week)
  CH 17th 07/27/2014 (1 week)
  UK 6th 08/02/2014 (4 weeks)
  US 20th 08/09/2014 (1 week)
Supervision
  DE 85 02/14/2020 (1 week)
  UK 20th 02/20/2020 (1 week)
Singles
In for the kill
  DE 92 06/24/2009 (1 week)
  AT 53 08/14/2009 (4 weeks)
  UK 2 
platinum
platinum
03/28/2009 (50 weeks)
Bulletproof
  DE 13 
gold
gold
08/14/2009 (25 weeks)
  AT 3 08/14/2009 (31 weeks)
  CH 42 09/13/2009 (20 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
04/07/2009 (25 weeks)
  US 8th 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
03/20/2010 (27 weeks)
I'm not your toy
  UK 27 09/26/2009 (6 weeks)
Uptight Downtown
  UK 63 08/02/2014 (1 week)
La Roux at the Melt! Festival 2015 .
La Roux logo

La Roux (pronounced Laruh ) is the pseudonym of the British singer-songwriter and music producer Eleanor "Elly" Jackson (born March 12, 1988 ).

history

La Roux was originally an electro-pop duo consisting of Eleanor Jackson, daughter of English actress Trudie Goodwin, and producer Ben Langmaid. He had previously worked with bands like Faithless . Langmaid brought his relationships and musical experience to the work on the album La Roux (2009) and its production. Jackson wrote the compositions and wrote all the lyrics. As a duo, they became Grammy Award winners. With the single In for the Kill they achieved their first successes, with Bulletproof the international breakthrough came. The single even reached number 1 in the UK .

The band name, which contradicts French grammar (“the redhead” actually means la rousse in French ), relates, as Jackson explained, to their red hair and their rather androgynous , boyish appearance. On the French-Canadian TV show "Tout le monde en parle" Elly explains that she found La Roux in a book about baby names. She explained the grammatical error nonchalantly : "It was an English book!"

Elly Jackson did not cope with the great commercial success mentally, she suffered from loss of voice and panic attacks at times . Langmaid, who had already been her duo partner in the folky predecessor project Automan , no longer wanted to be her companion. The record company wanted to continue earning on the successful La Roux project and bridged the drought with secondary material for sidetracked and a new edition as La Roux (Gold Edition) .

The album Trouble in Paradise (2014) is Eleanor Jackson's second solo album as La Roux , on which she also worked as a music producer - five years after the first album, which sold two million times. According to Rolling Stone, the nine songs bring back memories of The Human League and Yazoo , of Tom Tom Club and Tears for Fears . The 1980s retromania is looser this time and also enriched with "some funky elements". Jackson and her co-producer Ian Sherwin have succeeded in creating a "neo-romantic" album that is all about sex and love.

Musical style

The sound of La Roux is primarily shaped by the British synth-pop bands of the early to mid- 1980s such as Depeche Mode , Erasure , The Human League , Yazoo and the Eurythmics . Jackson's androgynous appearance can also be associated with the latter . However, the album La Roux is also musically close to current electronic music such as that of Zoot Woman and Robyn .

Discography

Albums

  • 2009 - La Roux
  • 2010 - Sidetracked
  • 2011 - La Roux (Gold Edition)
  • 2014 - Trouble in Paradise
  • 2020 - supervision

Singles

  • 2008 - Quicksand
  • 2009 - In for the Kill
  • 2009 - Bulletproof
  • 2009 - I'm Not Your Toy
  • 2009 - Quicksand (re-release)
  • 2008 - Tigerlily
  • 2010 - Under My Thumb
  • 2010 - Armor Love
  • 2014 - Uptight Downtown
  • 2019 - International Woman of Leisure

Awards

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ a b Awards for Music Sales: DE UK , US
  3. ↑ http://www.stars-celebrites.com/LA-ROUX/printable-la-roux.htm
  4. ↑ a b Oh, how beautiful were the eighties! , Review by Michael Pilz in Die Welt on July 4, 2014, accessed July 11, 2014
  5. ↑ "Tout le monde en parle"
  6. ↑ a b Trouble In Paradise Elly Jackson also makes seductive dance-pop alone , review by Alexander Müller in Rolling Stone Germany of July 3, 2014, accessed July 11, 2014
  7. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikexpress.de

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personal data
SURNAME Roux, La
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laruh; Jackson, Eleanor (real name); Jackson, Elly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer-songwriter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1988