This past June marked the 10th anniversary of having La Roux’s “Bulletproof” stuck in your head. In the time since, Elly Jackson has been there, done that, messed around, she had some fun and refused to be put down. She also never let us sweep her off her feet — but that’s partially due to relative inactivity since her English synth-pop project broke out in the late 2000s. Five years ago, La Roux dropped sophomore album Trouble in Paradise, but it failed to have the same impact as the project’s incendiary ’09 debut.
Maybe that trajectory will soon change course, as La Roux, now essentially a Jackson solo project, is back this week with a vibrant new song called “International Woman of Leisure”, word of a third studio album titled Supervision, due in February, and a North American tour that hits Boston’s House of Blues on March 5. Tickets for all her tour dates go on sale November 6.
“International Woman of Leisure” is billed as “a playful riposte to the debonair lifestyle of male privilege but also, crucially, meant as an anthem about not taking any more shit.” It features a colorful La Roux-esque lyrical spin of “I will not be living in this space again / I will not come knocking at your door / Because I’m an international woman of leisure / Oh, you want me to go on? It’s my pleasure.”
Go on, La Roux. Go on.