After the Lights

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After the Lights

Studio album by Sweetbox

Released

2004

Sweetbox chronology

13 Chapters
(2004)

After the Lights
(2005)

Best of Sweetbox
(2005)

Korean cover

After the Lights is the fourth album by singer and songwriter, Jade Villalon of Sweetbox. It was released in 2004 in Japan. On various online stores the CD is listed as Sweetbox Presents a Very Sweet X-Mas, although only 4 songs on the CD are Christmas carols. In 2005, two different versions of the album were released in Korea, with one version being a special two-disc Christmas edition. The 3rd edition was called "[13 Chapters]", but was an album composed of only hit songs from Adagio and After The Lights. Since the goal of "After The Lights" was to create a more mature and meaningful sound for Sweetbox, most of the songs are based upon completely original orchestral and musical pieces written by Jade Villalon and her producer, Geo. The sound on this album takes on much romance, as many songs written telling of two lovers appear. 'After The Lights', the song, which tells of two stage actors/musicians who fall in and out love, only to meet again in the late future, or the slow-tempoed "high-school dance"/jazz influenced "Pretty In Pink", make prime examples of this.