THIS IS DEATH TO 'VALERIE'

a tumblr devoted to putting a STOP to
>FIRST)the misuse of Light’s name.
her legal name is Lights. call her Lights. she is not 'also known as Lights,. she is known as Lights because she she is Lights.period.
not to mention it actually OFFENDS her.
Lights changed her name for a reason. if theres ANYTHING a Lights fan knows, its that everything she does, has great reason. we, as fans need to respect that.


>SECOND) the misconception LIGHTS is a band. she is not a member of Lights. Lights, as said above, is a PERSON. not a band. she represents herself. she has a band for live performances, but she is certainly NOT a band. she is an individual artist. she represents herself in interviews, public appearances, etc.

Lights is a person, she IS Lights, and that is all there is to it.

Lights name is very important to her, please respect that. we are here to put a stop to the Valerie madness. we are here to put a death to Valerie.
- teamDTV

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"Changing her name wasn’t a flippant decision guys, it’s something that means a lot to her personally. Just as she’s grown and changed through her life, so has the way she sees her place in the world and the name change reflects that. Even though my parents purposefully named her valerie and it identified her through her childhood, this part of her life is different which is why she likes to be understood in those terms. She is no longer Valerie, she is Lights and out of my own respect for her and my parents’ respect for her, we all refer to her as so." - Jess Kotanen (LIGHTS sister)