History Music / Lights

* AnswerSong / SiameseTwinSongs: "...And Counting" is the second half of a pair with Blessthefall's "40 Days". Lights is married to their singer Beau Bokan, and the songs deal with their previous distance from eachother due to their respective tours, and living in different countries. She also appears at the end of the video for "40 Days"

* UnpluggedVersion: "Sibera (Acoustic)" is an entire unplugged album.

* DistaffCounterpart: OwlCity.

* ShoutOut: In "Ice" she pays a brief lyrical homage to Music/VanillaIce ("...I'll let a little light melt the '''Ice Ice Baby!'''") followed by a musical quote.

* StickinAround: Lights once mentioned it in an interview, stating it was her one of her favorite shows as a child.

She also wrote a song called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZiqouC7bM Perfect]], but you probably didn't [[CoveredUp know that]].

** The exception is Issue Four, where Captain Lights instead listens to the voices of the Wah-Wah's[[note]]An alien race on the planet she's visiting[[/note]] and reflects on the uniqueness and beauty of each voice.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Song of Anti-Creation would cause this in Audioquest: A Captain Lights Adventure

* TemptingFate: “[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJzHnhUIwbE All I gotta do now is get inside without being noticed…]] ''What the— ?”''

* AutoTune: In the verses of "Saviour" and in the middle-eight of "The Listening".

** Did we mention that in Owl City's "Deer in the Headlights" video that both Lights and Owl City appear?

* GamerChick: See OneOfUs.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Siberia''.

*** And they also did a duet called Cactus in the Valley? (it's better than it sounds). [[note]]The duet can only be heard in the acoustic version. The original is a solo.[[/note]]

** "Everybody Breaks a Glass" and "Flux and Flow" on ''Siberia''. He either makes the tracks better or is extremely out of place.

* AlbumTitleDrop: "Saviour" for ''The Listening'': "The night is defining/While '''the''' silence is '''listening'''..."

* AuthorAvatar / AdamWesting: Captain Lights

* AWildRapperAppears:
** "Everybody Breaks a Glass" and "Flux and Flow" on ''Siberia''. He either makes the tracks better or is extremely out of place.
** Also on the K-OS remix of "Ice".

* DyeHard: Although naturally a dirty blonde, she dyes her hair darker, often to a jet-black color.

* OneOfUs / ProudToBeAGeek: She's an avid gamer as well as a fan of comic books and other nerd culture, and it really shows in some of her music videos. It's also worth mentioning that her song "Lions!" was inspired by one of her favorite computer games, VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft.
** She once joked that [[AwesomeMcCoolName her middle name was Two-Handed Weapons]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ-omMi-WMs Lights Two-HandedWeapons Poxleitner]]
** She also made her own animated Comic Book on Website/YouTube called Audioquest: A Captain Lights Adventure.

* SpecialGuest: Showed up on the Fast Food Meatloaf episode of WebVideo/EpicMealTime.

** The exception is Issue Four, where Captain Lights instead listens to the voices of the Wah-Wah's[[hottip:*: An alien race on the planet she's visiting]] and reflects on the uniqueness and beauty of each voice.

* MirrorMatch: Near the end of "Ice," with her EvilCounterpart[[hottip:*: A subversion of ActingForTwo, as the actress playing the EvilTwin had no tattoos on her arms]].

*** And they also did a duet called Cactus in the Valley? (it's better than it sounds). [[note]]The duet can only be heard in the acoustic version. The original is a solo.]]

*** And they also did a duet called Cactus in the Valley? (it's better than it sounds).

* {{Auto-Tune}}: In the verses of "Saviour" and in the middle-eight of "The Listening".

Her official website: http://iamlights.com

Lights is a Canadian pop singer (born in 1987 as Valerie Anne Poxleitner) known for performing songs such as "February Air", "Saviour", "Ice" and "Second Go" during the late 2000s. She released her self-titled debut EP in 2008, and her first full-length album ''The Listening'' in late 2009.

She also wrote a song called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZiqouC7bM Perfect]], but you probably didn't [[{{Covered Up}} know that]].

* AuthorAvatar[=/=]AdamWesting: Captain Lights
* {{Auto-Tune}}: In the verses of "Saviour" and in the middle-eight of "The Listening".
* AWildRapperAppears:

* {{Becoming The Mask}} / [[DoNotCallMePaul Do Not Call Me Valerie]]: She actually [[MeaningfulRename had her name legally changed]] to Lights, and prefers that people [[ThatManIsDead no longer address or refer to her by her born first name Valerie]].
* {{Canada Eh}}

* {{Celebrity Endorsement}}: She lent some of her songs to (and even appeared in) an Old Navy TV ad campaign in early 2008. Possibly an {{Inverted}} since these commercials actually introduced her to many of her fans.

* DistaffCounterpart: {{Owl City}}.

* {{Dye Hard}}: Although naturally a dirty blonde, she dyes her hair darker, often to a jet-black color.

* {{Genki Girl}}: She has elements of this.
* {{Iconic Item}} / [[NiceHat Cool Headband]]: Early on in her career Lights would wear a brightly-colored headband; not these days.
* LyricsVideoMismatch: "Ice". The lyrics are about a boyfriend who's a male IceQueen, the music video is about Lights fighting her cloaked EvilTwin.
* {{Mega Neko}}: Just look at the [[http://twitpic.com/2jfezd thing!!!!]]
* {{Mind Screw}}: The ending of the video for "Ice". A SplitPersonalityMerge? TheBadGuyWins? What?

* {{Motor Mouth}}: She admits to being a naturally fast speaker. Also applies to [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein her vocals in the middle-eight section of "Ice"]] (the 'Leonard Bernstein' of which you can find in the Shout Out trope listed further down the page).

* {{One of Us}} / {{Proud To Be A Geek}}: She's an avid gamer as well as a fan of comic books and other nerd culture, and it really shows in some of her music videos. It's also worth mentioning that her song "Lions!" was inspired by one of her favorite computer games, {{World of Warcraft}}.

** She also made her own animated Comic Book on YouTube called Audioquest: A Captain Lights Adventure.
* {{Perky Goth}}: Her appearance and love for metal music would make up the 'Goth' part of this trope, while her own music and personality make up the 'Perky' part. [[FreakyFashionMildMind Go figure]].
* {{Shout Out}}: In "Ice" she pays a brief lyrical homage to [[Music/VanillaIce Vanilla Ice]] ("...I'll let a little light melt the '''Ice Ice Baby!'''") followed by a musical quote.

* {{The Oner}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPLRkyGU3cM The video for "Second Go"]].
* {{Unkempt Beauty}}: Even with hair that is often unruly (except for her [[DistinctiveAppearances trademark combed-over fringe]]) and a minimal amount of makeup (she is rarely seen without eyeliner), Lights still retains [[{{Moe}} a natural cuteness]]. Many fans can't help but fall in love with her, especially {{when she smiles}}.

* StickinAround: Lights said this was one of her favorite shows as a child.