The album did not only receive positive accolades from music critics around the world, it also put up an impressive commercial performance. She also performed at a number of music festivals including, the 2010 Glastonbury Festival, iTunes Festival, 2010, 2010 V Festival and the Open’er Festival. In addition to the release of four singles form “Lights”, Ellie embarked on a tour aimed at promoting the album. German-British record label, Polydor Records, was the record label responsible for the album’s release. The album was produced by a team of highly acclaimed record producers, including Liam Howe and Fraser T. It was officially made available to the public on February 26 of 2020. Ten years later, the album was re-released as “Lights 10” to commemorate its tenth anniversary. The said song became the singer’s most successful single in the United States. This version comprised of 7 additional songs including Ellie’s hit single, “Lights”. The album was however reissued on the 29th of November, 2010 under the title, “Bright Lights”. It was released as the singer’s first studio album. “Lights” was covered by American hard rock band Through Fire in their debut album, “Breathe” in 2016.īetween 20, iconic American rock band Blondie frequently covered “Lights” into their classic song, “ Atomic” during live performances.Įnglish singer, Ellie Goulding, had “Lights” officially released on the 26th of February, 2010. In Omar Rodriquez-López’s 2016 solo album “Blind Worms Pious Swine”, a cover of Goulding’s “Lights” was featured in it. The Bassnectar remix of “Lights” was sampled in American rapper Lupe Fiasco’s “Lightwork” in 2011.
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The movie starred likes of James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens. “Lights” was part of the soundtrack in 2013 American crime movie, “ Spring Breakers”. To date, “Lights” remains Ellie’s most successful song in the United States (where it has sold over 6 million copies and gone 6 times Platinum). According to her, nobody was expecting it to be that big! Goulding has stated that “Lights” enjoying the remarkable success that it did took she and her team by great surprise. In Ellie’s home (the United Kingdom), it also experienced some decent success. Simply put, in the US, “Lights” became what is said to be a sleeper hit – a song that initially didn’t meet with success upon being released but goes on to become very successful later on. And when it did, it made it all the way to number 2 on America’s most important singles charts, the Hot 100. However, in the United States, it took a while before becoming famous. Upon release, “Lights” met with global success, even making to #1 in Poland.
They’ve worked with notable artists such as Spice Girls, Atomic Kitten and Little Mix. Stannard and Howes are part of the music production and songwriting trio, Biffco. Together with Goulding, two other songwriters contributed to the writing of “Lights”. With this entity’s presence and light by her side, Ellie is able to summon the courage not to be afraid and remind herself to “be strong” to overcome the obstacles of fear brought on by the darkness surrounding her. being petrified) simply by shining “the lights” for her. But what is made abundantly clear is that this entity or person makes their presence available to Ellie whenever she is alone in the “darkness” and rescues her from turning “to stone” (i.e.
It is not exactly clear who this person or entity is. In the chorus, we find Ellie directly addressing someone special in her life whose presence gives her the strength and courage to surmount her predicament (her intense fear of the darkness). However, when she turns the lights on at night, she feels safer. She has probably tried many times to sleep with the lights off but when she does, the fear makes her feel like she’s going to die. Goulding shows that her fear has gotten the best of her when she hears noises in her head. When such fears are irrational or too big to control, it usually manifests worse things in our head.
Feeling like one may die is one of the emotional symptoms in relation to this fear. Some of the many reasons why this fear (also known as “ Nyctophobia”) occurs in children are related to their fear of ghosts, monsters, and strange noises. This new change of being alone makes it hard for her to sleep since her childhood fear of the dark is now probably affecting her more. In this case, Goulding felt like a queen back in her family home and now that she’s on her own, she feels like she’s been “overthrown” from the throne. Apparently the “queen” referred in the first verse of the track would be Goulding herself.
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