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"La La" is the most rock-oriented track on Autobiography, and was described in a BBC review of the album as "energetic". Another review called it a "punk inspired, fast beat, screaming anthem". Reactions to the song have been mixed, however: People magazine called the song "insipid" in its review of the album, and Allmusic said that Simpson was "trying way too hard to be sexy." Rolling Stone said the song casts Simpson "as a barely legal temptress", and said "ironic or not, it's creepy." Billboard was more positive, saying that "La La" (in which it said Simpson was a "frisky bad girl") was one of the songs that could "keep Autobiography on the charts in the foreseeable future." The abovementioned BBC review named the song as one of those on the album that it regarded positively, and another review said Simpson "summons a credible pop-punk sound" on "La La".
The lyrics to the song are quite sexual, with "la la" being used as a euphemism for sex and a reference to Simpson dressing up as a French maid included. However, Simpson has described the lyrics as tongue-in-cheek: "It was one of those songs where every silly thing that was sexual that I could think of I put into the song."
In one interview, Simpson said of the song:
| “ | Another song, 'La La' is flirty and very sexy. It's very tongue in cheek; it can be interpreted in all different ways. It's about sexual fantasies. There's a lot of sarcasm in that song. It's something every girl thinks about, so I decided to make a joke about it. It's one of the songs you can dance around to. Actually, I wrote it because I was singing la la and it was kind of a little dance that I was doing around the room. I didn't have a song on my record that was like sexy. So I thought, I'm a girl and I'm feminine and I can be sexy, so here it goes." | ” |
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