{"id":50301,"date":"2026-11-09T22:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/i-think-our-generation-is-having-a-really-rough-time-la-roux-explores-the-millennial-ache-on-her-new-album\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T22:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:34:54","slug":"i-think-our-generation-is-having-a-really-rough-time-la-roux-explores-the-millennial-ache-on-her-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/i-think-our-generation-is-having-a-really-rough-time-la-roux-explores-the-millennial-ache-on-her-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Think Our Generation Is Having a Really Rough Time\u2019: La Roux Explores the Millennial Ache on Her New\u00a0Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trending on Billboard\t\t \t \t\t \t <\/p>\n<p> \tElly Jackson has always built her musical project <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/la-roux\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/la-roux\/\">La Roux<\/a> around a simple premise: resurfacing something from pop music. Her 2009 self-titled debut mined the \u201980s, 2014\u2019s <em>Trouble in Paradise<\/em> excavated late \u201970s and early \u201980s disco and 2020\u2019s <em>Supervision<\/em> stayed in that world a bit longer. The first album shot her to global fame via its pair of hit singles \u201cBulletproof\u201d \u2014 which spent 27 weeks at the Hot 100 and peaked at No. 8 \u2014 and \u201cIn For the Kill,\u201d both era-defining songs whose success the English artist once found unmooring.   \t<\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t   \t \t \t\t \t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t \t  \t\t \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>  \t \t\t\t\t\t  \t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/hilary-duff\/\"> \t \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> \t \t\t\t<\/a> \t \t\t\t\t\t  \t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/la-roux\/\"> \t \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> \t \t\t\t<\/a> \t \t\t\t  \t\t\t \t<\/p>\n<p>See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<p> \tShe\u2019s since come around. And now, with her new album <em>Old Flames<\/em>, she\u2019s moved on to an era she and so many of us have been longing for \u2014 the late \u201990s and early \u201900s. \u201cI went back to a time when I just remember pop music being something really fun,\u201d she says, \u201cwhich I guess maybe sometimes I feel like is missing from the pop landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \tInfluences like SWV,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/la-roux-new-album-cabin-fever-hilary-duff-tour-bulletproof-1236376131\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending on Billboard 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 \u201980s, 2014\u2019s Trouble in Paradise excavated late \u201970s and early \u201980s disco and 2020\u2019s Supervision stayed in that world a bit longer. The first album shot her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5497,1210,36,87,79,4904],"class_list":["post-50301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-360music","tag-billboard-uk","tag-features","tag-mixtv","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}