Jul 3, 2009 • 1 min read

La Roux brands R&B "hollow"

La Roux's Elly Jackson has criticised modern R&B, calling it hollow and lyrically weak, and objecting to the sexualised image of many young pop singers.

So, while Lady GaGa has been calling her own music "soulless", La Roux's Elly Jackson has been doing the same to other people's. Specifically modern R&B.

She told the BBC: " very kind of empty, like hollow and not rooted in anything good or healthy. Lyrically it's just like really really bad - I think a lot of it just doesn't mean anything. I think a lot of it is, 'Baby I love you, I want to kiss you'. It's just like what are you on about? Shut up. It certainly doesn't make me feel anything special, or doesn't make me think, or go somewhere else in my mind. I just don't get it".

She continued: "The clothes... I just think it's like basically naked. It has been like that since the nineties, it's not just now. I just don't think it's good and there's lots of girls in pop that are 17/18 and they're half naked and it's just 'Why?'. And you wonder if you weren't half naked would you be selling any records? Which obviously is just wrong. You shouldn't be selling records because you're half naked - if you want to do that be a porn star".

She added: "I'm probably expressing my opinion where it's not wanted".

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