{"id":14458,"date":"2015-10-12T16:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=14458"},"modified":"2015-10-12T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:28:46","slug":"lights-up-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/10\/lights-up-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights &#8211; &#8216;Up We Go&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14460\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/10\/lights-up-we-go\/lights-photo-credit-matt-barnes-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lights-Photo-Credit-Matt-Barnes-1.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,428\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Lights Photo Credit Matt Barnes 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lights-Photo-Credit-Matt-Barnes-1.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14460\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lights-Photo-Credit-Matt-Barnes-1.jpg?resize=640%2C428&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lights Photo Credit Matt Barnes 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lights is a singer, songwriter and synth enthusiast from Canada, whose second album &#8216;Siberia&#8217; (released in 2011) was a strikingly ambitious album which turned many heads her way. She&#8217;s followed it up with her new album, &#8216;Little Machines&#8217;, and has released the single &#8216;Up We Go&#8217; on October 9.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lights\u2019 previous two studio albums, The Listening (2009) and Siberia (2011) feature the pop hits, &#8216;Drive My Soul&#8217;, &#8216;Ice&#8217;, &#8216;February Air&#8217; and &#8216;Banner&#8217;. In 2009 she received the Juno Award for Best New Artist, and to date has over 1.2 million Facebook likes, 607,000 Twitter followers, 56 million YouTube hits, and 390,000 Instagram followers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Up We Go&#8217; is accompanied by a hilarious video set in a lift (or is it???!) with Lights seemingly oblivious to everyone else who enters. Watch for the burglar, the amorous couple, and the animal-headed businessmen!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find Lights online on her <a href=\"http:\/\/iamlights.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/lights\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/lights\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/lights\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. &#8216;Up We Go&#8217;, as well as the album &#8216;Little Machines&#8217; and all her other music, is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/artist\/lights\/id275263062\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_30451\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFl7DhdGGzo?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Lights - Up We Go [Official Music Video]\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/pFl7DhdGGzo\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lights, Canadian singer and songwriter, has released her new single, &#8216;Up We Go&#8217; on October 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,640],"tags":[673,3130,3128,3131,144,77,78,304,3129],"class_list":["post-14458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-canada","tag-juno-award","tag-lights","tag-little-machines","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-singer","tag-songwriter","tag-up-we-go"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-3Lc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30286,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/09\/skin-and-earth-from-lights-is-a-concept-album-with-a-difference\/","url_meta":{"origin":14458,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Skin &#038; Earth&#8217; From Lights Is A Concept Album With A Difference","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"22\/09\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Out today, 'Skin & Earth' from Canadian singer songwriter Lights, is a concept album with a difference. 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