LIGHTS ft. SEVEN LIONS Stop Thinking (MiTiS remix) | A journey of self-discovery

Who is Lights?

Valerie Anne Poxleitner is the Canadian synthpop artist known as Lights. Born in 1987 to missionary parents, she spent her childhood from Argentina to Jamaica.

She found in music the consistency she needed in her life, first learning to play guitar at the age of 11, then drums and piano.

At 13 he discovered the limitless possibilities that synthetic instruments offered, buying a small 8-track mixer.

In 2008 Lights released a first EP named after her ‘LIGHTS’, and soon her debut album ‘The Listening’, under her own label Lights Music Inc. which led to her winning a Juno award for best new artist of the year in 2009.

Lights has always been my nickname for starters and it does come out of my last name. It’s kind of what people have been calling me for so long and it totally explains what my music is about, it’s about lightening people’s moods and stuff. I’ve always loved writing L’s and my real name does not start with an L.”

Lights singer

In 2010 he released an acoustic EP titled ‘Acoustic’, and shortly followed with her second album, Siberia, to considerable success in Canada.

• Her third album, Little Machines, was released in 2014, with their biggest hit to date, “Up We Go“.
• The fourth album, Skin & Earth, would arrive in 2017 with a comic book series drawn and written by Lights.

Since then Lights has released several synth-pop singles and collaborations, such as ‘Dead End’ with MYTH. Plus a synthwave instrumental album in 2020 entitled ‘How to Sleep When You’re on Fire‘. Proceeds from this album would be donated to the Black Lives Matter Vancouver branch.

In 2021, Lights began releasing music under the pseudonym Lūn, a character that appeared in her comic Skin & Earth in 2017. As Lūn he released the EP ‘haha i like it’, in 2021, with the great track ‘Demolition’, and in 2022, ‘fuck ya go us’.

• In parallel Lights released several hit singles such as: Hearts on Fire, Beside Myself, Last Summer or Prodigal Daughter.

This led to her 2022 album, ‘Pep‘, with the great song ‘Voices Carry’. In November that same year she released an album with the late ‘i-o’, Warehouse Summer.

She would later release the single ‘Stop Thinking’ with Seven Lions, which brings us to 2023 where she has released her new album ‘dEd’, and a remix of ‘Stop Thinking’ with MiTiS, which is our Emotion of the Week.

Seven Lions ft. Lights ‘Stop Thinking‘

The track ‘Stop Thinking‘ belongs to the artist Seven Lions, an American product called Jeff Montalvo who released in 2022 his first album, ‘Beyond The Veil’ with this magnificent cut.

Seven Lions

Stop Thinking features the powerful vocals of Lights, in a production that combines elements of trap, dance pop, midtempo and even trance with great breakdowns and catchy melodies.

The remix was released in 2023 by MiTiS. The artist, whose real name is Joseph Torre, grew up as a classical pianist in Pennsylvania, but has been making his way in the electronic music scene for the past two years, producing tracks in genres ranging from Dubstep to Electro.

Video | Seven Lions ft. Lights Stop Thinking (MiTiS Remix)