After Old Navy used New York City-based indie popper Ingrid Michaelson's "The Way I Am" in a sweater commercial I was intrigued by the gentle pop sound of the artist. Her Girls And Boys is a delightfully low key pop affair, very Lisa Loeb. The title comes from a lyric in the song "Breakable" - "we are so fragile, and our cracking bones make noise and we are just breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys." A 2008 EP for the Stand Up To Cancer charity, Be OK followed that 2007 release, as well as a duet with fellow acoustic pop singer Sara Barellies on the Christmas album The Hotel Cafe Presents Winter Songs. Now, Ingrid is releasing a video for "Breakable" and it is equal parts creepy and adorable.
In the clip, Ingrid goes into the doctor to have her heart removed, and she carries the anatomically correct plush organ out of the office and drops it in a street singer's guitar case. Through a series of random heart-snatchings the body part ends up in a pawn shop. Ingrid then gets all biblical and sells all her groovy vintage housewares to get it back. It's very twee, in a strange foriegn film kind of way. Watch:
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