You may not want to read that Jian Ghomeshi is a pop prophet, but as despised synth ditty “Fireflies” by Owl City became the No. 1 record in America, he hooked up his similarly-chirpy client LIGHTS as opening act for a winter tour across flyover country. And when the 22-year-old Timmins native born Valerie Poxleitner — she had her legal name changed recently — had a new single to premiere today, she does it exclusively on MySpace — where the following for such lite quirk still evidently lurks. Her gimmick to get in the door with the professionally fashionable is an instrument aging Gen X trainspotters equate with their hair-band-worshipping youth: the keytar. And, along with a song that references the game World of Warcraft, she likes all the right female fantasy figures like Lara Croft — the new video for “Ice” finds LIGHTS in hand-to-hand combat with her evil self. And showing off her copious body art in the latest issue of alt-tattoo magazine Inked. “I’d love to write a song for Celine Dion,” she recently told BlackBook. “Just get all the crazy cheesy pop songs out of me. I’d also love to write a song for Cradle of Filth, a completely different genre!” But moonlighting manager Jian should know best: who needs self-awareness when you’ve got so many talking points?



