LIGHTS: We have followed her adventures in the silent wasteland in Audio Quest; we've learned things we didn't know about her in "The 5" interview, we've discovered her "Halloween Horrors." And now, now we get to look at her!
This charismatic one-stop-electro-pop-shop posed for MTV photographer Rene Cervantes in these exclusive MTV photos. They're a little but funny/playful, a little bit goth and a little bit other-worldly; a lot like her music.
+ Check out the entire set of LIGHTS' exclusive MTV Photos here
In this new edition of "The 5," the ubiquitous (at least on these blog shores) LIGHTS tells us a few things we never would've known about her, had she not hipped us to them.
Not only is LIGHTS an accomplished songwriter/singer/producer, she also enjoys taking a blade to undead images (or whatever) while playing the popular World of Warcraft game. When LIGHTS was little a tuberculosis shot gone wrong left her with a nasty scar on her arm. So thank the heavens she got into the fantasy role playing game; it gave her a reason to cover up her tat with a dope knife tattoo.
Otherwise, LIGHTS calls boars the worst "invention" and recalls the time she basically found herself at a boar convention at a zoo. Bummer. She also discusses making pop-up books and how the first song she ever produced sounded like something from the Thumbelina soundtrack.
Learn all you can about LIGHTS below, and be sure to check out her animated comic book adventures in the thrilling Audio Quest series.
When LIGHTS isn't out saving worlds in her animated comic Audio Quest or making bubbling electronic pop (see check out the recently released The Listening), she's just a regular ol' gal with regular ol' likes and dislikes.
In this edition of "Halloween Horrors," LIGHTS talks about coming to Halloween later in life, her favorite scary movie (a battle between The Shining and the Evil Dead franchise) and conquering her fear of spiders by getting a pet tarantula, naming it Lance, and giving it a Twitter account. Be sure to check out Audio Quest, and perhaps more importantly, follow Tarantulance!
It's Issue 4 of Audio Quest, kids. In this animated comic book collaboration between LIGHTS and comic artists Tomm Coker and Daniel Freedman, LIGHTS has finally met the HBGIC (Head Bad Guy In Charge), Lotar. Ol' Lotes has LIGHTS trapped in a force field of some sort and it would seem that LIGHTS' quest to restore sound to a muted planet and galaxy is all but done for.
Find out how this conflict resolves itself (we're betting it involves some kicking of butt on the part of LIGHTS) and check out all the other issues of Audio Quest here.
In the last issue of "Audio Quest," Captain LIGHTS," was on a mission to open a can of sonic beatdown on her nemesis, Lotar. Oh, that Lotar. Always stealing sounds from planets and muting the universe!
In this latest issue of the animated comic book collabo between LIGHTS and acclaimed comic artists Tomm Coker and Daniel Freedman, our hero is beset by some of Lotar's robot minions as she attempts to confront the universe's biggest bad guy.
When we last left LIGHTS her search for signs of intelligent sound was thrown off course (literally) when she crashed on some barren, non-rocking rock of a planet.
Issue 2 of LIGHTS' exclusive comic/music video series, "Audio Quest" -- a collaboration between the Canadian electro-popper and esteemed comic artists Tomm Coker and Daniel Freedman -- LIGHTS encounters some turtle-type aliens who give her the 411 on a bad guy named Lotar, a "fiendish mute-merchant" who's been going around the galaxy turning down the sound wherever he can.
Watch it below, and get caught up with LIGHTS' Audio Quest by watching Issue 1 here.
Canadian electro-popper LIGHTS isn't just satisfied making insanely hummable synth-driven ditties, she's trying to get her sci-fi-Indiana-Jones on, too.
In this new music-video-meets-comic collaboration between LIGHTS and comic book artists Tomm Coker and Daniel Freedman -- who've worked on such famed titles as Daredevil and Punisher -- LIGHTS is on a mission to "restore musical hope to the cosmos" by looking for sounds in the nooks and crannies of the galaxy.
As tends to happen with these kinds of missions, there are a few hiccups along the way. In Issue 1, Captain LIGHTS has a mechanical meltdown in a galaxy devoid of jams, forcing her to crash land on bummer of a planet.
Stay tuned for Issue 2 coming soon.
Usually celebrities turn on the lights of the Empire State Building. But just the morning, to honor Earth Day and Nickelodeon's Big Green Help, Nick Cannon (sorry, Jonas Brothers fans, this is about Nick Cannon, and not Nick Jonas) and everyone's favorite pineapple-dwelling, porous kitchen tool SpongeBob, took a field trip to the Empire State Building. Both Nick and SpongeBob pretended to turn OFF the lights atop the tallest building in New York. The lights on the Empire State Building will go off for-real for-real for 60 seconds tonight at 9pm.
Now everybody, make like Nelly Furtado and "Turn Off The Light." Or, listen to Lights in the dark. AND, walk to the mailbox instead of driving there! See, Earth-friendly is easy!
We thought we learned a lot about Lights yesterday from seeing her crib. But that was before she busted out the awesome home movies. Turns out Big Lights and Little Lights have an awful lot in common! Or as Lights puts it, "life can change so much, and still nothing changes at all."
Think she's right? Take a stroll down VHS memory lane by checking out Lights' lifelong love of animals, phat rides, paper dolls and (duh!) music. Then, see if you can get her to lend you that amazing, "all about Bigfoot" book. (Sasquatch RULZ, are we right?!)
+ Don't worry -- it's not "Lights out," just yet! Take another look at Lights' fave spidery friend (think Charlotte's Web, not Arachnophobia) and head back to her crib to admire her hand-painted shrine to Wonder Woman.
You can learn a lot about a person from seeing where they live. And now that we've seen Lights' house, we know she's a Wonder Woman-worshiping comic book geek, with an 8000-horsepower pink bike and more headbands than Hillary Clinton. (Ask your mom.)
Naturally, we're totes jealous of her amazing crib -- especially the ever-practical "Weapons Wall" -- but we're thinking our hizzouse could do without the fuzzy Tarantula. (Sorry, Lance, but we liked you a whole lot more when you were just a cartoon).
