Author: Emma
Date: 2008-12-05


Interview:
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with LIGHTS before her Atlanta concert. We chatted a bit about her music, her fashion, and what she has coming up. Here's what she had to say:

So how's the tour going? You only have four dates left right?

LIGHTS: Yeah, after tonight, three more. Then we're gonna to be in Canada, but the tour's been soo good. That's the weird thing about touring is that you make such amazing friends, and then you have to leave them! It's so weird.

Awe! So I read your blog, and it seems like you've done a bit of everything musically, with Metal and R&B and Pop. How has that, I guess, gotten you where you are now?

LIGHTS: Well, I think, not only with music but with everything, you kinda have to drift around a bit before you find your place, and that's exactly what I did in music. Like you said, I was everywhere; I was in a metal band, I was in a pop punk band, I was doing the acoustic thing for a while, some R&B stuff, and I just dawdled in everything. And it was inevitable that I would eventually land on the one that worked. But I feel like everything that I went through contributed to where I am now, because I learned what I liked about that music and everything that I didn't, and I applied it to the music that I have now.

So in a way, instead of looking at it as the genre that works, this is a combination of everything that works from all the other genres I've been involved with. And it's concentrated down into the perfect music that describes me and makes me feel good.

Now how did you get hooked up with Warner Brothers Records? How did you get discovered?

LIGHTS: It would've been through MySpace.

Really?

LIGHTS: A lot of discoveries through MySpace, including Old Navy, which gave my first boost into America, a lot of collaboration with Old Navy. It actually started with Doghouse Records discovering me on MySpace, and driving up all the way from New York to one of my shows in the blistering cold winter's night, to watch one of my shows in Toronto. So they were really cool, we were really into them (me and my manager when I say we).

There were a lot of people coming towards me with lots of ideas from different labels as a result of MySpace, so we kind used that as a tool to get other interests going on. Doghouse then brought us to Warner Brothers and Warner's sent one of their inner people to another one of my shows, on another blistering cold night. And we sat down in this lounge, and talked just had the best connection ever. They are the coolest company.

So tell me about the comic. Do you do the illustrations yourself?

LIGHTS: Yes. I do. If I wasn't doing music, I'd be a comic artist. I think the comic is more interesting then if I just wrote my bio, no one would want to read it, it's so dry.

How do you do it? With an Illustrator?

LIGHTS: I simply, it's the amateur way to do it, I draw it with marker and color it all on the computer with a program I have, which is pretty ghetto.

That's cool. Are you gonna keep doing that?

LIGHTS: Definitely. I actually did ten pages of this comic, and we're selling it at the merchant table. But after that's done I'm just gonna keep doing one page in that a week.