Hey guys, Tatianna DiDonna here with Young Hollywood and Turbo Tax continuing our Grammy guide journey with La Roux. How are you?

I'm good, thank you. How are you?

Good. So you've had an exciting couple of days. Platinum. Platinum ring a bell?

Yeah, it does actually yesterday. My label very kindly presented us with um, two platinum discs one for me and Ben, we're double platinum which is pretty amazing. Um for two million track sales for Bulletproof, which is

Which is amazing. Yeah. So it's Grammy week and Turbo Tax has teamed up with us to guide us through the Grammys. Who's guided you musically?

It's done to a few people really. It's done to Ben who was a serious mentor for me for many years. My dad taught me to play guitar when I was like six, you know and he just like gave me loads of stuff you know, all I listened to was like rock and roll and blues and stuff like that and a lot of funk music when I was a kid.

So it's Grammy weekend and it's actually really exciting for you because you are nominated twice. Talk to me about that.

It's just weird. Like, you know, I'm very proud of our record but I really didn't ever expect to be included in the Grammys. It didn't it literally didn't cross my mind.

You kind of took over 2010 though. I'm not going to lie to you. I feel like your song was an anthem.

Maybe it's just because I'm English but it's like Grammys is like something you just don't think you'll ever do. It's incredible. And you know, on our first record and all of this, you know, it is, it's incredible. It's incredible. I just I never ever expected. You know, we made the record in a living room. You know, it's like we didn't even.

You make your second one in the kitchen and let's do like quadruple platinum.

Yeah, good. Good idea.

So how's your transition? You're from the UK. How's the transition been to coming over here?

It takes a while to get used to. At first I just got really homesick and then you just you start to get to know a place and the people in it. And we love coming here. It's warm. So yeah, we're into that. Um it's also just really relaxed here and people aren't so kind of uptight. I'm pretty uptight. I'm used to being around uptight people. Not uptight in that way but in a kind of English kind of like I'm cold all the time. I'm always.

Yeah, it's cold. I'm tense. So when you hear your songs out here, what what do you think?

It's weird. I haven't heard it for a while cuz the last time we were properly on the radio with Bulletproof, but it was so strange to hear um that on like you know, K-I-S and stuff like that. It was on nine stop. You know, you put the radio on you just go oh it's on three times in one hour. On the same station. Like really weird.

So anybody else you're rooting for in the Grammys?

I listen to a lot mostly a lot of older stuff. I don't actually listen to that much newer stuff but I absolutely love Fever Ray and The Knife. They've always been a really big um influence on us for sure.

Dead or Alive, any musician you could collaborate with, who would it be?

I think it probably Bowie or Jackson. It'd have to be, wouldn't it? Yeah. I reckon so. Or go back to the 50s with Buddy Holly. That'd be good.

That's right. That's right. So you're working on an album right now?

Yeah, we're just sort of in the thinking process where it's like, okay, we're getting together a bank of the kind of sounds we want to use, creating sort of different soundscapes, saying what we like, saying what we don't like. We're in the very experimental phase. You know, I really we really got to deliver on the next record and it's like there is pressure. I've always been like I'll be fine, you know, it's a second record. I won't freak out. Yeah. We just need to take our time and try and be relaxed and sort of shut ourselves off from everything again like we didn't I mean we made the first record and just try and try and do the same again but better.

Better. No problem.