Released on the album LaRoux, June 2009Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlZd3zHBoY&feature=related (this is home video footage of a live concert recorded during a performance in London)
Lyrics: http://www.elyrics.net/read/l/la-roux-lyrics/as-if-by-magic-lyrics.html
As if by Magic hasn't been released yet as a single from LaRoux's self-titled debut album, which also explains the lack of an "official" music video at this point. Despite that it isn't among the five singles the album has produced thus far, there was something about this song that I liked. The wife and kids like it as well, so I'm going to take a very slight leap here, take that edu-ma-cated guess, and say that the song will eventually be a single release. Perhaps number six!
Bulletproof (which was on the Summer Hang Out Mix that I have yet to get posted) turned out to be quite a hit for LaRoux. It was a song that elicited such an 80's flashback, that I immediately thought, "this song could have been a part of the 80's!" and I think it could be played along with other 80's electro-pop songs like those by Human League & Depeche Mode (who's song Enjoy The Silence is a part of this Mix as a cover by the group Nada Surf) and some may hear it and actually wonder if it didn't come from the 80's after all!
As if by Magic and the other songs from the album all fit that 80's comparison. Is that why the songs seem good? The whole electro-pop sound (and 80's song styles in general) seems to be gaining something of a resurgence recently as the Emo and Grunge styles that were so popular through most of the 90's and into the new millenium are fading - though it may be that the styles are just being melded more and more with other musical methods. Whatever the case, it does seem like an increasing amount of radio play music could have come straight out of that interesting decade, and perhaps LaRoux caught the wave...and have helped to keep it going!
Interesting interview with Elly Jackson where she gives her opinion on the state of pop music along with other topics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlGY8fIjRs4&feature=related
A really good cover of the song by a girl and a guitar in what looks like a dorm room: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YgamosAlLI
Other songs: Quicksand , In For the Kill , Tigerliliy
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