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Lights Poxleitner-Bokan Born Valerie Anne Poxleitner April 11 1987 Known Mononymously As Lights Previously Stylized As LIGHTS Is A Canadian Musician Singer And Songwriter. She Has Had Multiple Singles Which Have Charted Within The Top Ninety On The Canadian Hot 100. She Was Awarded The 2009 Juno Award For New Artist Of The Year And Two 2009 Astral Media Radio Awards During Canadian Music Week. Her Debut EP Lights Was Released In July 2008 And Achieved Commercial Success Which Enabled The Release Of Her First Full-Length Album The Listening On September 22 2009. Her Second Album Siberia Was Released On October 4 2011. Both Albums Have Been Certified Gold In Canada. Lights Released Her Third Studio Album Little Machines On September 19 2014 Which Debuted On The Canadian Albums Chart At Number Five. Her Fourth Album Skin&Earth Which Featured "Giants" Was Released In September 2017 Accompanied By A Graphic Novel Of The Same Name. Her Albums Won The Juno Award For Pop Album Of The Year In 2015 And 2018. Lights Has Collaborated With Artists Including Bring Me The Horizon Silverstein Deadmau5 Felix Cartal I_O Owl City And Sleepy Tom. Lights Signed With Fueled By Ramen In 2019 And Released Skin&Earth Acoustic Which Included Three New Songs.
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Lights - Little Machines Deluxe Version
“Portal” Is The Opening Track For Lights' Third Studio Album Little Machines. Lights Wrote And Produced The Song By Herself Using Only One Chord To Do So. The Track Made Its Debut On August 12 2014 When It Was Released To ITunes As The Album’s First Countdown Single Along With An Official Music Video That Premiered On Lights’s YouTube Channel The Same Day. Lights Tells Idolator What Inspired The Song’s Simplicity “While Searching For The Right Songs For This Album I Was Thinking About The Aspects Of Creativity In Music And Art And Stuff. So One Of The Experiments I Did Was To See If I Could Actually Write A Whole Song Using One Chord. Is It Possible To Do Something Dynamic Enough And Exciting Enough Using That One Chord With The Melody And The Lyrics? So I Tried It And I Wrote This Sort Of Poem Over It. I Knew This Wasn’t A Standard Song. There’s No Chorus. So I Brought It Back To My Team And They Fell In Love With It. Then I Thought OK This Is Really Cool.“
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Biography - Lights
Lights Poxleitner-Bokan Born Valerie Anne Poxleitner April 11 1987 Known Mononymously As Lights Previously Stylized As LIGHTS Is A Canadian Musician Singer And Songwriter. She Has Had Multiple Singles Which Have Charted Within The Top Ninety On The Canadian Hot 100. She Was Awarded The 2009 Juno Award For New Artist Of The Year And Two 2009 Astral Media Radio Awards During Canadian Music Week. Her Debut EP Lights Was Released In July 2008 And Achieved Commercial Success Which Enabled The Release Of Her First Full-Length Album The Listening On September 22 2009. Her Second Album Siberia Was Released On October 4 2011. Both Albums Have Been Certified Gold In Canada. Lights Released Her Third Studio Album Little Machines On September 19 2014 Which Debuted On The Canadian Albums Chart At Number Five. Her Fourth Album Skin&Earth Which Featured "Giants" Was Released In September 2017 Accompanied By A Graphic Novel Of The Same Name. Her Albums Won The Juno Award For Pop Album Of The Year In 2015 And 2018. Lights Has Collaborated With Artists Including Bring Me The Horizon Silverstein Deadmau5 Felix Cartal I_O Owl City And Sleepy Tom. Lights Signed With Fueled By Ramen In 2019 And Released Skin&Earth Acoustic Which Included Three New Songs.
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“Portal” is the opening track for Lights' third studio album Little Machines. Lights wrote and produced the song by herself, using only one chord to do so.
The track made its debut on August 12, 2014, when it was released to iTunes as the album’s first countdown single, along with an official music video that premiered on Lights’s YouTube channel the same day.
Lights tells Idolator what inspired the song’s simplicity:
“While searching for the right songs for this album, I was thinking about the aspects of creativity in music and art and stuff. So one of the experiments I did was to see if I could actually write a whole song using one chord. Is it possible to do something dynamic enough and exciting enough using that one chord with the melody and the lyrics? So I tried it, and I wrote this sort of poem over it. I knew this wasn’t a standard song. There’s no chorus. So I brought it back to my team, and they fell in love with it. Then I thought, OK, this is really cool.“ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.