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You may not have heard of Ingrid Michaelson. But chances are you’ve heard her.
Maybe it was the Old Navy commercial that employed her song “The Way I Am” in a sweater ad campaign. Perhaps it was during last year’s season finale of “Grey’s Anatomy,” which featured her song “Keep Breathing” — or any number of other “Grey’s” episodes. Maybe it was through placements on “One Tree Hill” or “The Bad Girls Club” or “The Real World: Denver;” or through her appearances on the various morning and late-night talk shows or on VH1. Or a download, like the more than 631,000 digital sales of “The Way I Am.”
It might have even been on the radio, as Michaelson is an increasingly rising star, with some 200,000 sales of her second studio album “Girls and Boys,” which has spent 17 weeks on the Billboard 200 top-sales chart (peaking at #63).
Not bad for an unsigned, indie singer-songwriter from Staten Island who just quit her day job last year.
Michaelson will perform Sunday, May 18, in Highland Park, the final musical act of the 2008 Lilac Festival.
Her songs focus on love, relationships, vulnerability, longing and hope. “Love, matters of the heart … stuff about relationships,” she says. “Death and dying are another thing that I’m often harping on.”
Sometimes melancholy, they’re often buoyed by inviting arrangements — sometimes jazzy, sometimes surprisingly rockin’-out — and the occasional whimsical turn of phrase: It’s not every love song, after all, in which the singer offers to buy her man Rogaine.
Mostly, though, the melancholy is intertwined with hope, so that the two are inextricably linked. As in “Die Alone,” a song that seems to be about the onset of a relationship, when everything seems somehow changed — even the taste of whole-grain bread and butter — as the singer allows herself to consider that maybe (a word repeated frequently in the song) her life will be wholly transformed: “You make me think that maybe I won’t die alone.”
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I am feeling very bored.
Star Trek vessels.
I don’t name inanimate objects. I’m not that lonely — yet.
could you post it again parapliers? i don’t see your comment.
I name mine after the gods of the Greek pantheon, because they are memorable and ready-themed. I call my main PC ‘Zeus’, my file server ‘Hermes’, basic cloneable VM ‘Proteus’, etc.
I’ve had a purse for over two years now. I couldn’t do without it… it has been a lifesaver. My wife mocks me, since my purse ($150, on sale for about $100) cost more than any two of hers (of which she has over 20).I refuse to let anyone call it a different name… it’s a damn purse, and I’m not ashamed of it. Just because I don’t carry lipstick in it doesn’t mean it ain’t a purse. I don’t know why so many men carry one, yet so few are secure enough to call a spade a spade.
I have a “warped” sense of humour, so I normally name them something like “warpdrive4″ or if it’s just a virtual machine (VMWare, et. al.) “impulse69″ (because it’s not a full warp speed drive, of course…yeah it makes no sense…)Either that or something to do with breakfast. “Pancake1″ or “Bacon8″Come to think of it, I really shouldn’t be allowed to name computers.
Hmmm, I haven’t thought about naming my computers, but my car is named the T.A.R.D.I.S. I keep its internal clock is 13 minutes ahead of Earth-time.
SLAVE has permitted me to tell you his name. He is the second in a series. Hal9 was in a movie (motion picture for those of you who speak proper english) and Hal9000 exists. Beware! Hi, qgyh2: I know where you are. It’s a little speck of dust near ’sol’ right?
That sounded like shit. The concept is interesting, but the product is garbage.
You think the guy who named “stiff nipples” air conditioning did so by accident?
Isn’t Lick-A-Chick in Nova Scotia? I think I was there. I don’t remember anything about it except the name.
after famous porn stars, naturally!