La Roux: Radio Stations Were Scared Of My Voice

La Roux looks set to top the charts this weekend with her track 'In For The Kill' but she has revealed that at first some radio stations refused to play the track.

Apparently producers at several stations were worried that her vocals might put off their listeners who were used to more traditional singers.

One of those stations was Radio 1, La Roux told the Daily Star: “Radio 1 wouldn’t  play the song at first. I know I’ve got one of those vocals where it’s very high and a bit like Marmite but it’s not like I struggle to get there live. It’s what I’m comfortable with.

“When it got into the Top 20 someone at Radio 1 got angry that it hadn’t been playlisted.

“There’s a lot of female vocalists around singing and in the same tone or in a slightly robotic way, like Lily Allen and Kate Nash or Lady GaGa.”

The singer, real name Elly Jackson, says that she is surprised but overjoyed by the tracks success and is glad to battling it out at the top of the charts.

She said: We didn’t think it would go Top 40 but I love that we have changed people’s perceptions and it’s been discovered.
 
“N-Dubz and Tinchy are slightly in the wrong genre to be classed as our rivals but I do mind if they beat me to No 1!”