LIGHTS trapped in an elevator in "Up We Go"

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!

LIGHTS Raises A White Flag "Banner"

LIGHTS rolls out her brand new music video for the song "Banner," serves as the second official single from Canadian singer's latest sophomore effort, "Siberia," which has a strong dubstep influence, while also wandering into genres of dream pop, minimal, dance and even noise, is nominated for "Pop Album of the Year" at this year's JUNO Awards. The event airs April 1st on CTV.
"Siberia" sees synth pop superstar venture into new directions as being slightly grittier in a musical sense than the previous, The Listening, but retaining the charm and innocence of the previous album and EP. The girl who I saw bring her synth-pop from the bedroom to the stage with music to light up faces and hearts. For an artist that can be considered a poster-girl for being 'self-made,' it's hard to argue against the artistic progression and her own right for creative exploration and development.
Directed and conceptualized by Sean Michael Turrell, the clip was shot from dawn till dusk over the course of one day in the desert about an hour outside of Los Angeles. The video's mood places LIGHTS in a Road Warrior-inspired post-apocalyptic world, and features the 24-year-old Canadian pop princess walking down alone the long empty road in a deserted dessert, was based on the film "The Book of Eli," until she runs into a group of other young brave hitchhikers.
As she travels through a vast desert and encounters a pick-up truck of dirty-faced young vagabonds who invite her to join them. They continue down a lonely highway, and everything almost goes smoothly until hitting a roadblock where a bunch of pirate-wannabes stop them and start attacking. All LIGHTS had to do though is to raise a white flag - a banner, if you will - and everything's good. The setting is pretty interesting and beautiful and if you haven't already be sure to give her album a listen.

LIGHTS Premiered Video For Her New "Toes"

Canadian synthpop outfit LIGHTS is officially back with a brand new video for her little synth number "Toes," the lead single off her upcoming sophomore album "Siberia," due out October 4th. LIGHTS is shown playing with her band in a brightly lit room. She then gets out of a taxi and goes to a skate park and a subway. Afterwards LIGHTS goes back to the brightly lit room to play with her band. The video ends with a shot of LIGHTS walking away on a sidewalk.
LIGHTS very often does both with her pure power sugar emo-pop. If you're familiar with her, this makes perfect sense; the track's like Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Starlight" set slightly lower in the atmosphere. If you're not, just think pretty, sparkly synthpop as light as its vocals. The gorgeous little synth number is a lot more mainstream-friendly with electronic, 80's-era production and poetic lyrics about trying to decipher an elusive love interest. LIGHTS leaves her voice unfiltered and natural in "Toes," singing with a sweetly coquettish delivery that really brings the charming lyrics to life.
A career trajectory that goes from "Owl City pal and Myspace keyboardist" to "featuring Holy Fuck and Shad" is a career trajectory that would be impossible to guess had Canadian artist LIGHTS not done it with promotional single "Everybody Breaks a Glass," While that fuzzy quasi-experimental song was heavier and darker than what we've seen from LIGHTS before, "Toes" is a bit more like the rest of her work, and serves a more familiar sound reminiscent of her debut album "The Listening."
LIGHTS, a 24-year-old fairly small-sized Canadian girl who makes intergalactic-electro music, is prepping for her second album and has started to release new material, going a little harder and in a different tone in her synths. In her debut and acoustic albums, LIGHTS has proven that she is an artist to be reckoned. She is still upbeat and makes you want to dance, but has added an edge to her music that was never there before. Her latest, "Toes," is a sweet love song that has an unescapable hook and infectious bouncey feeling.

Owl City Catches A "Deer In The Headlights"

Owl City goes back to the future for his trippy video for "Deer in the Headlights," the third single from the synthpop act's third studio album "All Things Bright and Beautiful." The man behind Owl City, Adam Young describes the sound of his new album in an interview with AOL Music, saying "it was fun to surround myself with all kinds of instruments and just experiment that way even though, at the heart of this record, it's still an electronic vibe."
Dealing with the opposite sex can make you feel like a "Deer in the Headlights," according to Young, the flashy song is about "being in love for the sake of it" and is about a "guy who constantly faces rejection when asking out girls." Young explains the concept behind the video and song, "It's a quirky video for a cheeky song that quips, 'Why are we in love if it's for all the wrong reasons?' The song is about fending off the blinding light of superficial fluff relationships and saying, 'Thanks, but I'd rather be alone and thus avoid a million shallow heartbreaks until I meet the girl of my dreams'."
Young ditches his usual dreamy, ethereal style for layered, whirring synths that add a touch of dance music to the song, and we're loving the new direction. Complementing the music are lyrics dripping with dry humor about Young's failures on the dating front. The cute and quirky video takes Young on a journey day dreaming about a beautiful girl as he gets to ride around town and traveling through time in a sick DeLorean, famously featured in the "Back to the Future" film series, and Canadian musician Lights appears as a special guest.
As Young travels down the highway of life, singing about how damn confusing he finds the female of the species in that sweet, twee voice of his, UFO-like jellyfish soar overhead in a benign fashion. Even though Lights is not vocally featured in the song, she does make an appearance in the music video as a gas station attendant. Well, the fantasy girl Young thinks he is seeing, but in reality it is an older gentleman that is behind the counter. Young is seen at the end, in the space suit that he wore in the Alligator Sky film. This is after he dives the DeLorean to 2015.

Lights Covers Herself In Paint For "Second Go"

The electro-synth pop artist LIGHTS premiered the official music video on MOD for the fourth single "Second Go" as featured on her intergalactic sonic debut album "The Listening," is out now in Canada, UK and the US. What does she means by intergalactic? The fairly small-sized, Canadian girl is try to find sounds that seem like they could have been plucked from Saturn's rings or a meteor belt. Equal parts fantastical/epic/beautiful/emotional.
Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter. She is best known for her heavily synthesized dream pop music. She also seems to be quite creative through her videos and also comics on her site. The awesome LIGHTS has decided to show everyone her expert painting skills in her new messy, colorful, paint-splashed video "Second Go". Using a few methods ranging from throwing, lobbing, smearing, spraying, rolling and sloshing this video is also rumored to have originally been an audition for the next series of Changing Rooms, though unfortunately, she got turned down as they weren't happy with her choice of colors and the fact she didn't put any sheets down prior to starting.
If the recording artist known as LIGHTS ever offers to paint your house or apartment for free, make sure you watch her new music video before saying yes. Just a word to the wise. As you'll see in the "Second Go" video, which we're pleased to be streaming exclusively right here after the jump. She just wonders around white surroundings painting everything with color, poetic, beautiful, and amazing. The Canadian electro singer has some slightly unorthodox ideas about interior decoration.
"Second Go" follows "Savior," "The Listening," and "Ice." The 23-year-old singer filmed the whole splattery video, directed by Sean Michael Turrell, was shot in one single take. Looks like a fun shoot! If you missed LIGHTS on her recent stint touring the country with sincere synth-pop compadre Owl City, you can catch her this summer at select Lilith Fair dates.

Lights Becomes Powerful 'Saviour' Of The Planet

In a world of Lady Gaga, La Roux, Little Boots and Luciana, this little lady named Lights doesn't get the attention that she most certainly deserves. That's all about to change. The Canadian Keytar-wielding synth-pop sensation, Lights has a music video for her BEST lead single "Saviour," off her debut album "The Listening." The Roboshobo directed video is a triumph in pop perfection, comic book animation and gorgeous use of color in video direction. It's quite easily one of the best music videos I've seen in years and I think once you take a look for yourself, you just might agree.
"Saviour" is a poppy, keyboard-driven new wave number and is the first Lights song to feature prominent Auto-Tune. It is about Lights telling someone of her troubles and how she doesn't like who she's become. Furthermore, she tells them that one day, she will need them to save her. The video concludes with her blowing on a pink flower that begins to glow with ethereal light. Her cute originality with her own comic drawings for her music video and a keytar not far away, makes for a great music video viewing, it's amazing! I believe that the lyrics in "Saviour" is full of meaning that can be seen and felt through her deep words. It's obviously heart-felt, it's touched so many people this far. All I can say is listen to this emotion-wrenching song and determine for yourself.
Lights finds escape from her own private Fortress Of Solitude via a comic book alter-ego. The video features the story of how this world came about. Lights drawing comics in her bedroom, which gradually animate and send her comic self into outer space, where she becomes the "Saviour" of the planet. "Basically in this video you're going to get a cheap ride into my alternate universe, a little look at how my ideas spawn, whether from writing or drawing or just looking at things around me in real life," the talented Canadian artist writes. The style of animation and the live action work really well together.
Every singer has a unique style. A good singer tries not to deviate from that style. Think about it: a person with a 'bluesy' voice won't make good heavy metal music and a person with a childish voice won't have range or depth to do soul. For Lights' case, the 22-year-old took home a Canadian Juno Award earlier last year for Best New Artist without even releasing a full-length album. She call herself a proclaimed purveyor of "intergalactic electro music", and her "Saviour" is nothing more than a re-hash of the mom-friendly candy-coated pop tunes that propelled the Toronto native to fame. It's not that "Saviour" is bad per se, multi-layered tracks, high production quality and good use of sampling are indicative of Lights' abilities as a songwriter and a composer. "Saviour" drops right at the heart of a movement overflowing with sunshine synth-pop lullabies. It's no doubt destined to cause a stir both on the airwaves and in the hearts of fans across the world.