La Roux channel the phone sex hotline in their new Kiss And Not Tell retro video.
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The video features an impressive display of vintage phones – enough to make you nostalgic about your landline! There is a lip phone, a hamburger phone and even one that doubles up as a mini keyboard. Plenty of anonymous heavy breathers steam up the line as Elly Jackson (La Roux) plays the operator.
A British telephone number flashes across the screen, inviting viewers to call +44-155-728-0014. The number is real and if you do call you’ll reach the La Roux Hotline where you have the option to listen to a recording of Kiss and Not Tell or leave your own ‘cheeky’ message with the warning, “be careful what you say, these recordings can and will be shared.”
The visual is impeccably styled – whoever had to source all those 80s phone must have had a ball. The whole concept of the clip is interesting, unbelievably the phone sex hotline has never really gone out of fashion after all these years – perhaps it’s the sound of the human voice that keeps it fashionable on the pay-for-pleasure circuit.
La Roux was formed in 2006 by singer Elly Jackson and record producer Ben Langmaid. Their debut album La Roux (2009) was a huge success, winning a Grammy Award for Best Electronic Dance Album and producing hit singles such as In for the Kill and Bulletproof. Langmaid left the group and Elly released a second album Trouble in Paradise on her own.
Kiss And Not Tell is the second single to be taken from La Roux’s chart-topping Trouble in Paradise album that was released last month on Polydor. The single will be released on October 6.
