It's been three years since the release of LIGHTS' sophomore LP "Siberia," but the synth-leaning Canadian songbird returns and goes on a crazy elevator ride in the one-take new video for her new single "Up We Go," the first offering from the Juno Award winner's upcoming third record, "Little Machines," which due in stores on September 23rd via Warner Brothers Records. "Up We Go" is perhaps her biggest banger to date—sparkling, anthemic, amped up synthpop.
"Up We Go," is a delicious electro-pop filled with up-lifting lyrics, finds LIGHTS moving into slightly more commercial pop territory than she'd perhaps explored before. "It's been a hard year, and I only know/ From down this low It's only up we go, up we go," sings the 27-year-old Canadian electro-pop star in the motivational chorus of "Up We Go." Her current musical style is giving me Ellie Goulding meets Ashlee Simpson vibes. And we love it.
The Canadian electropop pixie had this to say about the tune and the video: "I like to think that 'Up We Go' is an anthem for that feeling of release we experience following a hard spell. It took a lot of moving parts to make this really ambitious one-take video shoot a success. While trying to choreograph the band, all the great extras, the fans we brought in, the set movements, the folks behind the camera, and my performance... there were moments I thought it would be impossible. But everyone absolutely killed it. Everyone was just ready to go."
The Alon Isocianu-directed clip sees LIGHTS stuck in the confines of an elevator while going on a crazy ride, utterly oblivious to everything around her as various other folks get on board. Upon entering the elevator, LIGHTS starts singing along to "Up We Go." The upward ride seems pretty normal until a pair of sparring lucha libre wrestlers walk in, then a couple who explicitly deep into a make-out session, and then a whole LIGHTS' own band. None of them, however, deter her from belting out her brand new song. When LIGHTS reaches the "last" floor, a huge celebration with confetti engages. But in the end we find out the "ride" wasn't that real in the Watch the charming elevator-set romp!
"Up We Go," is a delicious electro-pop filled with up-lifting lyrics, finds LIGHTS moving into slightly more commercial pop territory than she'd perhaps explored before. "It's been a hard year, and I only know/ From down this low It's only up we go, up we go," sings the 27-year-old Canadian electro-pop star in the motivational chorus of "Up We Go." Her current musical style is giving me Ellie Goulding meets Ashlee Simpson vibes. And we love it.
The Canadian electropop pixie had this to say about the tune and the video: "I like to think that 'Up We Go' is an anthem for that feeling of release we experience following a hard spell. It took a lot of moving parts to make this really ambitious one-take video shoot a success. While trying to choreograph the band, all the great extras, the fans we brought in, the set movements, the folks behind the camera, and my performance... there were moments I thought it would be impossible. But everyone absolutely killed it. Everyone was just ready to go."
The Alon Isocianu-directed clip sees LIGHTS stuck in the confines of an elevator while going on a crazy ride, utterly oblivious to everything around her as various other folks get on board. Upon entering the elevator, LIGHTS starts singing along to "Up We Go." The upward ride seems pretty normal until a pair of sparring lucha libre wrestlers walk in, then a couple who explicitly deep into a make-out session, and then a whole LIGHTS' own band. None of them, however, deter her from belting out her brand new song. When LIGHTS reaches the "last" floor, a huge celebration with confetti engages. But in the end we find out the "ride" wasn't that real in the Watch the charming elevator-set romp!
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