Lyrics Analysis

Lyrics Analysis: ‘Lights’

Both Lauren and I analysed the lyrics to come up with a understanding of the song as well as a concept for the music video idea.
We listened to the song a few times over to have a better idea on what the lyrics reflect and what the lyrics of the song mean. First of all, by reading the lyrics, we noticed that the song mentions the word 'lights' frequently and we made the assumption that the song could have a direct meaning with the artist. For example, by the artist talking in the first person 'in my head' and 'You show the lights that stop me turn to stone, you shine it when I'm alone.' makes the song seem more personal and relate to the audience.

When we took a listen to the song itself, we noticed how the lyrics have been repeated and 'jittered' (e.g. had a way-h-h-h) to add an effect to the song. As this particular song has a ambient but dubstep sound to it, we thought of maybe including an aspect of hyperreatlity to the story and to suit the style of the song. For example, with the repeated words and sounds of the lyrics, we thought of maybe portraying the artist in the music video to be a computer generated human in order to refelct the lyrics and style of the song and create an image for the artist based on futuristic and unique.
We concluded that the artist of the song may be expressing her relationship with lights and how it reflects her as a person.