La Roux is nestling into a special nook in music lovers’ hearts, hitting the music world with a definitive sound and cross-genre support. She is maintaining her hype with the release of her third single off her self-titled album, nominated for Britain’s Mercury Prize.

Growing up in the Midwest in the ‘80s, it’s safe to say that most of my friends and I at one time or another definitely wanted to be Prince. Sure, there may have been dalliances with the idea of being Billy Idol or one of the guys in Duran Duran (John Taylor, generally), but it really all came down to the man from Minnesota.