Pop Quiz: Ingrid Michaelson

Pop Quiz: Ingrid Michaelson

Aidin Vaziri | You don't even have to like music to love Ingrid Michaelson, whose independently released music has found its way into episodes of "Grey's Anatomy," MTV's "The Hills" and CW's "One Tree Hill," not to mention that Old Navy sweater commercial that featured her song "The Way I Am" and aired nonstop during fall premiere week. If that doesn't do it for you, she also wears great glasses. And if you happen to be a fan of multilayered piano ballads sung in a theatrical voice, that also helps. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter, who still lives at home with her parents in Staten Island, is currently driving herself across America playing songs from her self-produced album, "Girls and Boys."

Ingrid Michaelson
Q: MySpace helped get your music out there. Has it also helped you get dates?
A: No, I don't use it as a dating service. But it's made it possible for me to befriend people I'm going to be touring with.
Q: Has Lisa Loeb contacted you about stealing her look?
A: Please! The worst is when people tell me I sound like her just because I wear glasses. I don't get it. Does no other woman in this world wear glasses?
Q: Not really.
A: There's no other female musician who wears glasses?
Q: Madonna? No. Beyoncé? No. Shakira? No.
A: Oh, I fit perfectly right in there. I'm the one who comes stumbling out, right? Well, I've been wearing glasses forever. I'm not getting surgery, and contacts feel like fingers in my eyes. As long as people don't say I sound like Lisa Loeb, then I'm fine. Continue reading.