LA ROUX 'S SYMPATHY FOR LITTLE BOOTS

Whilst Little Boots was tipped to conquer all before her in 2009 by various tastemaker polls and pop forums , its been Elly Jackson and her electropop cohorts La Roux that have stormed the charts this year.
La Roux have topped the charts with Bulletproof , whilst In For The Kill remained in the Top 10 for weeks , and add to that a Mercury Prize nomination for their self titled debut.
Little Boots on the other hand failed to land a Top 10 with debut New In Town , her heavily hyped debut Hands, despite going Top 5 has stalled in the lower reaches of the album chart. An expected Mercury nomination failed to materialise.
Even though new single Remedy is tipped to land her a first Top 10 hit , Little Boots has so far failed to live up to high expectations and next big thing hype. Truth be told , the general consensus is that Little Boots has been a notable flop , whilst La Roux are the ones sitting pretty at the top of the electropop tree.
Elly Jackson has claimed that the media places an overwhelming amount of hype and pressure on new acts to succeed and deliver the goods commercially almost immediately.
The reaction she got was so unfair. Hype can be a very dangerous thing, it can accelerate people's expectations," she told the Daily Star.
We felt the same about our album but we have got away with it."

Little Boots topped the BBC's Sound of Poll , their annual list determing who would be the biggest acts of the forthcoming year. In the past artists such as Duffy , Corinne Bailey Rae , Franz Ferdinand , 50 cent and the Scissor Sisters have all featured on the list and gone on to connsiderable success.
It seems this time around Little Boots has fallen foul of the hype , rather than thrive off the back of it. I'd expect her to make some ground up with Remedy charting highly. These sort of polls do generate an unprecedented amount of hype. However Boots is not the only hot tip for 2009 that has so far underperformed. The likes of VV Brown and Frankmusik have both stalled somewhat. But Frankmusik 's debut album Complete Me looks set to go Top 5 this weekend.
With 4 months of the year left to run , perhaps some if these acts will pick up the pace commercially. But in terms of new acts to conquer all , as determined by polls and music forums , it seems there'll always be winners and losers. And the likes of La Roux and Florence And The Machine seem to be winning.