LA ROUX ATTACKS R'N'B

LA ROUX ATTACKS R'N'B

La Roux singer Elly Jackson has blasted ''meaningless'' R'n'B and its scantily clad female stars.

Elly Jackson has blasted R'n'B as "empty and hollow".

The La Roux singer has attacked the genre for promoting meaningless lyrics and says she doesn't "get" the sound.

She blasted: "R'n'B is very kind of empty, like hollow and not rooted in anything good or healthy.

"Lyrically it's just like really, really bad - I think a lot of it just doesn't mean anything.

"I think a lot of it is, 'Baby I love you, I want to kiss you'. It's just like what are you on about? Shut up.

"It certainly doesn't make me feel anything special, or doesn't make me think, or go somewhere else in my mind. I just don't get it."

The 'Bulletproof' hitmaker also attacked the styling of female R'n'B singers, accusing them of looking like "porn stars".

She added to BBC Newsbeat: "The clothes... I just think it's basically naked. It has been like that since the nineties, it's not just now. I just don't think it's good and there's lots of girls in pop that are 17/18 and they're half naked and it's just 'Why?'

"And you wonder if you weren't half naked would you by selling any records? Which obviously is just wrong.

"You shouldn't be selling records because you're half naked - if you want to do that be a porn star."