Of Rapunzel syndrome

...But sweet, really sweet

Albeit the ultra cheap video for La Roux's Bulletproof looks like something designed to attract pre-teen kids during the first couple of years of this millennium (remember brands like Anastacia or Pink?) the tune is one of the catchiest ones this year, along with Quicksand, In for the Kill and perhaps Lisztomania by Phoenix. One thing that bothers me though, is Elly Jackson's hairdo. It looks like a huge cone of cotton candy. What if it really tastes like cotton candy as well? I've always thought that the fairy floss has a distinctively similar texture to human hair. The hair of a very old woman. Strongly perfumed and candied with the icky cider resembling artificial aroma of a strong hairspray, the really cheap ones you know. The colour may be artificial as well, I think... Well, that's part of the branding of the floss I suppose. Indeed cotton candy does not only remind me of human hair, but also of the amorphous solid nature of this damned guilty pleasure hit music. I use to think albums with melodies as sugary as this, my "coitus records" - you feel sticky after them. When people in movies have sex they never need a Kleenex nor a glass of water after it all. I wonder why. But that woolish texture, hmm. Did you know that trichobezoars were thought to have remedic powers until a silver cutlery thieving cook of Ambroise Paré was poisoned to death and treated with a bezoar with no effect?

La Roux: S/T
(Polydor, 2009)
Record rating: 8/10