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Elly Jackson has always built her musical project La Roux around a simple premise: resurfacing something from pop music. Her 2009 self-titled debut mined the ’80s, 2014’s Trouble in Paradise excavated late ’70s and early ’80s disco and 2020’s Supervision stayed in that world a bit longer. The first album shot her to global fame via its pair of hit singles “Bulletproof” — which spent 27 weeks at the Hot 100 and peaked at No. 8 — and “In For the Kill,” both era-defining songs whose success the English artist once found unmooring.
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She’s since come around. And now, with her new album Old Flames, she’s moved on to an era she and so many of us have been longing for — the late ’90s and early ’00s. “I went back to a time when I just remember pop music being something really fun,” she says, “which I guess maybe sometimes I feel like is missing from the pop landscape.”
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