DARUSHIMO

But I suppose now you’re the person on constant rotation on the radio…

“That’s what’s weird, you’re suddenly part of that thing you were fighting against, and you can’t complain any more. I think essentially, not that I’ve ever really tried to do this, but one of the coolest things that hit me about being in the mainstream and lots of people knowing about you that you can’t have if you’re underground, is that you can have an effect on people. It’s all very cool being in the underground, but you only ever reach about 50,000 people, if that.

“I was in a pub the other day, and these two girls followed me into the toilet and said ‘excuse me, are you La Roux?’ And I was so touched because she went ‘you make me feel better about being the way I am.’ She had short hair, I don’t think she was a lesbian, she wasn’t some big butch woman coming over and going [adopts big butch voice] ‘yeah wicked, you make lesbians alright’, it was a girl with short hair, who wasn’t very girly, who didn’t have a tan, who didn’t have massive boobs, didn’t wear high heels. She was just a girl like the kind of girl I’ve been when I’ve been growing up, and she was saying ‘we think it’s really cool that there’s someone out there who’s a role model for people like us, because there’s no one for us to look up to any more since David Bowie’. I though that’s fucking cool, that’s amazing. Even if my music is retro, or whatever, even if it’s shit, at least there’s someone out there for girls to look up to who doesn’t have boobs and a tan and high heels.”

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see also: “Bulletproof” (video). It looks to me like the UK has a version of “commodified physiognomy” that is different from the US’s, but I don’t think I watch enough music videos (and, upon 2nd viewing, it’s apparent that I simply find her too attractive) to make that assessment. Whatchu think?
UPDATE: wow, see also: “La Roux Bulletproof makeup inspired tutorial Elly Jackson” and “Lady Gaga explains ‘Poker Face’ - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross - BBC One”