Interview: Yelle
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Yelle is France’s latest international export.
Dripping with pop and style and inescapably catchy music, she is everything that a pop star should be. She puts the majority of American pop to shame, like an adult telling the kids to go home and do their homework.
Her densely layered, electro-infused pop is hardly the disposable kind that is churned out over modern American airwaves, which probably explains her meteoric ascent. In a scant few years, she has broken into innumerable music markets around the world. She finally brings a full-fledged tour to the States, dropping by University of Maryland College Park’s WMUC and DC’s famed 9:30 Club on Monday, Oct 11.
I was lucky enough to have a few minutes to pick Yelle’s brain.
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