"The future is electro, female and DIY"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/17/electro-pop-female-artists

AKA the Guardian has another pop at predicting the pop revival.

That said I like all the acts mentioned who I've actually heard. Perhaps this is the Real Thing!!!

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I have just lost all the respect I had for LaRoux

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

"Girls look a bit stupid playing electric guitar and drums. It suits blokes better. But girls look wicked playing synths. When they play drums or whatever, it looks a bit butch. I hope that doesn't sound anti-feminist."

FUCK OFF.

Re: I have just lost all the respect I had for LaRoux

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, La Roux comes across as a bit of a dick. I think she's trying to be offhandedly controversial inna Lily Allen style but it's not really working.

Re: I have just lost all the respect I had for LaRoux

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, don't you just hate those butch female drummers (http://home.onego.ru/~nick666/pics/corpus%20delicti.jpg)?

(That's sticksmistress Roma in front, btw)

Re: I have just lost all the respect I had for LaRoux

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I hope that any young girl guitarist or drummer out there have more sense than to be swayed by what this idiot is saying. Butch or not, 100% of girl drummers look better whilst drumming than Phil Collins does.

Re: I have just lost all the respect I had for LaRoux

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

TRUFAX!!

Re: I have just lost all the respect I had for LaRoux

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as I said on your vidsarealright post, I think "Quicksand" is really good, but (to follow on from koganbot's good point above), it's a big, quite well-done steal of 'Purple Rain', explicitly "When Doves Cry", and is using good rock qualities to make the song awesome. Which ain't wrong but, as with his concern about Lady Gaga (I really didn't like "Just Dance"), makes me wonder about her future stuff somewhat. She may just have got lucky with this one.