Drive My Soul
| "Drive My Soul" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| B-side | "none" |
"Drive My Soul" is the first single by Lights, released in May 2008 in Canada and in 2010 in the United States[citation needed].
Success
The song peaked at #18 on the Canadian Top 100 in October 2008. It also made it to number one on the Canadian countdown on Much More Music[1].
The music video has been played 1 million times on YouTube , Light's orginally uploaded the video but it was removed. It has been played 3,200,000 times on her MySpace. [2].
It was also featured on the hit TV series The Hills [3].
Meaning
"Drive My Soul" is about the element in your life that you cannot live without and without it you feel lost and lose control. Lights said that this element could be anything you feel drives your soul and keeps you in the right path: your parents, a friend, or even something supernatural or a religious element.
Lights has stated that "Drive My Soul" was actually a song where she had the title first before she even wrote the lyrics. She's said it all started when she was listening to an indie radio station, and heard a song which she thought had the lyrics "Drive My Soul" sung in a really beautiful way. After hearing the song, Lights, searched for the lyrics and to her surprise the lyrics "Drive My Soul" were never used in the song she heard. When she was searching for ideas to write, she went back to the title of "Drive My Soul" for her own song.
Music video
The music video features Lights as Barbarella in a campy, 1960s-style science fiction movie theme, and her romantic relationship with an astronaut.
It starts with Lights sitting on her bed reading a comic (presumably the one she had written in Saviour) when she looks out the window and sees something glowing. A purple planet can be seen from the window. She gets up and looks into her binoculars. She sees an astronaut roasting marshmallows on the planet. The astronaut appears to notice; he looks up at Earth with interest. Lights then walks over to her computer and places in a map of Earth. After pressing a couple of buttons, she creates a spaceship and drives out of the city and into space. As Lights zooms through space, a comet hits the ship and it crashes into the purple planet. As the dust clears, Lights walks toward the astronaut and grabs his hand. The two walk away together, and the video ends with a shot of the comic that Lights was reading. It details her meeting with the astronaut, and at the bottom it says "to be continued".
The video for the following single, "February Air", is a sequel to the video; while the video for Saviour is a prequel.
Charts
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian Hot 100 | 18[4] |
References
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?JSESSIONID=VK2CJjgBD9hDLnkBkl3B0GT1SCvLy1KLW2bLd9nDJGGMplYym8JW!-1083302659&f=Canadian+Hot+100&pageNumber=Top+11-50&g=Singles
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltCvOztda3I
- ^ http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/warner-bros-records-partners-doghouse/story.aspx?guid=%7B0328DADA-3ED1-4179-8013-E02154A6E9AB%7D
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/lights/chart-history/1033861