YMMV / Ladytron

• Alternate Character Interpretation: While it has been long assumed that "Seventeen" is about the fashion industry (especially given the lyrics "They take a Polaroid and let you go / Say they'll let you know..." implying an audition), a later interpretation of the song (especially when it re-emerged on TikTok in the early 2020s) that focuses on its first two lines ("They only want you when you're seventeen / When you're twenty-one, you're no fun") makes it about a sexual predator preying on young women. Some even Take a Third Option and argue that it can be about both things, especially since sexual misconduct in the fashion industry has been known to be pervasive.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Roxy Music. It helps that the bands hold a mutual appreciation of each other; Ladytron named themselves after Roxy Music's song "Ladytron", and Roxy Music's own Brian Eno called Ladytron "the best of English pop music".
  • With Goldfrapp. Goldfrapp fans and Ladytron fans are incredibly close to each other. Similar sound, close stylistic choices and many tours together made sure the fandoms overlap.
  • It's safe to say that the fandom of the racing game series Need for Speed has a great appreciation for Ladytron and vice versa, after "Fighting in Built Up Areas" and "Sugar" were used in Need for Speed: Carbon, and "Ghosts" in Need for Speed: Undercover. Even Need for Speed: ProStreet – Pepega Edition (a mod for Need for Speed: ProStreet, a game which originally had no Ladytron songs) adds "Ghosts" to the game.
• Testosterone Brigade: The group certainly seems to have a enclave of male fans that best remember them as "that electronic band fronted by two cute chicks". Comment sections on their music videos tend to feature comments about guys looking up their music videos to look at Helen, Mira, or both.
• Signature Song: "Destroy Everything You Touch" and "Ghosts" are their two songs that everyone will recognize. That being said...
• Song Association:
  • "Fighting in Built Up Areas" usually tends to bring up people mentioning Need for Speed: Carbon, in which it's used as the Leitmotif for one of the game's bosses, Kenji.
  • "Ghosts" for its use in LittleBigPlanet 2 and Need for Speed: Undercover.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "He Took Her to a Movie", their very first song, features a beat that it's very similar to the one in Kraftwerk's "The Model".