What I Can’t Stop Listening To Now: Ingrid Michaelson

You know how I love an obscure reference, prolonged tangent or a painfully detailed description of even the most mundane…well, that is one thing that made me instantly love “The Way I Am” by Ingrid Michaelson. She gives dear Joni a run for her money with her long-winded verses.

As soon as I listened to it, I immediately started spastically downloading all her songs from “Boys and Girls” on iTunes.

Any songwriter who can get away with lryics like, “I’d buy you Rogaine if you start losing all your hair” and “I woke up this morning with a funny taste in my head. Spackled some butter over my whole grain bread” is one I want to listen to repeatedly. I know my daughter is going to love her, too.

(Oh…for those of you Grey’s Anatomy watchers, the song “Take me the way I am” was played while someone looked longingly out a rain-splashed window, or was it as they sat looking hopeless and dejected in the darkened locker room, or maybe when they ate alone in the cafeteria as others laughed at the table next to them (only making them seem more isolated and yet, ironically, more attractive)…I don’t watch the show, but I bet I am close.)

(Oh, oh,…speaking of Joni Mitchell (way up there), I saw Juno last night, which was a great movie, with an even greater Soundtrack, but I can’t believe they didn’t include a cover of “Little Green.” I would have loved to hear Cat Power sing it, or Ingrid Michealson. Go see that movie…so good.)