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Hearing Lights In A Geeky Parallel Universe
| 07-11-2009 15:29 | 0 reaction(s) | add reaction | add news |
 It’s said that looks aren’t everything. And with 22-year-old Canadian synth-pop performer Valerie Poxleitner —a.k.a. LIGHTS — that’s certainly true.
In addition to being beautiful, she’s a talented singer-songwriter, a comic artist and a multi-instrumentalist who frequently rocks out on the elusive keytar.
This combination of beauty and talent shouldn’t be surprising. It’s the music business, after all. But, while there are plenty of artists — both male and female — blessed with both, LIGHTS looks good in almost any light.
She’s as radiant in person as she is in press photos. And that, truth be told, is rare.
All this goodness is bundled into a tiny form that bounces onstage and bubbles with personality off of it.
Oh, and she’d also like to be a superhero.
“In another universe, I think so,” she says. “This is funny that you bring this up, because I actually have something I’ve been working on for a few months now. A fellow by the name of Tom Coker, he draws for Marvel Digital Comics — he’s amazing — we are near completion of a series called Captain Lights, in which I am a superhero.”
The full title of the series, which also features some of her music and can be seen on MTV and YouTube, is called Audio Quest: A Capt. Lights Adventure.
“She’s kind of a scavenger for sounds, and she goes through the universe and picks up sound samples throughout, which is kind of like a metaphor for what I do.
“The cool thing is that it’s actually semi-animated, and I had to do all the poses for all the scenes so it looks just like me and I do all the voiceovers, as cheesy as they are.
“I’m not the best voiceover actor ever.”
She laughs and offers a stilted sample: “Oh, no, we need more bullets.”
All this, of course, makes sense for a girl who describes her music as intergalactic electro-pop.
“Yeah,” she says, somewhat slyly. “I’m very much inspired by what I call an alternate universe. It’s a place you drift off to when you write music and there are no bounds … the worst thing you can do when you write music is to constrict yourself in a box. Every songwriter has this box, and you ultimately end up in it at one point. So this is the space beyond that.”
It’s a world the singer — who as a kid moved around a lot with her missionary parents — concocted for herself as a consistent place of refuge.
“I wrote my first song when I was 11,” she says. “I’d just started playing guitar and I knew three chords, and I immediately set it to some lyrics.”
These days, besides writing and performing her own material — her debut album, The Listening, just came out — she pens songs for other artists, too.
“It feels like the last few years have really been leading up to this,” she says. “Everything I do feels like it’s a little bit bigger, a little bit busier, and I’m that much more prepared because of the last thing.”
With her own music, she’s involved in everything from production to designing her own tour T-shirts, some of which were stolen in Seattle when she was opening for Keane back in September.
“They stole a few things, but the shirts I was most bummed about because we just got them brand new and they looked sweet.
“If anyone sees a risky looking guy with a LIGHTS shirt, then you’ll know you should tackle him.
“Geez.”
By now you might be getting the impression that LIGHTS has a major geek streak. Well, hold on to your pocket protectors, Nerdsville, because she’s also passionate about web-based fantasy games like World of Warcraft, a fact that probably has that online community ready to hand her the collective keys to their parents’ basements.
Wait a second: She’s hot, she sings, she likes comics and plays World of Warcraft?
Maybe she is a superhero, after all.
At the very least, someone should be busting out a keytar to play Oingo Boingo’s theme from Weird Science.
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/
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