Singles of 2009: #20 La Roux - Bulletproof

It would be difficult to do a countdown of the year's best singles without including La Roux.

The bequiffed Elly Jackson and her producer partner Ben Langmaid came from nowhere with their uber hit In For The Kill to announce their arrival on to the growing electro-pop scene. But Bulletproof was a better song, Jackson getting closer to singing in key than anywhere else on their eponymous debut.

Better still was the way Jackson spoke her mind throughout 2009, unafraid to offer her forthright opinions on whatever questions journalists through at her. She was effectively the anti-Leona, a performer who let her personality shine through. For that, she should be commended, as well as for bringing 80s dance back into the mainstream.