You can’t build a song around a line, and you can’t force an album out of a single.

Have you heard of Madonna?
Have you heard of Britney Spears?
Have you ever heard of Elvis?

Until Ingrid can come to terms with her place in the industry, she will invariably be stuck in commercial-and-soundtrack-limbo.

Not a bad place to be. I'd like to be there so I can have the time to write, record, and tour with/for my fans until I hit it HUGE again with a one line song.
Am I in no way shape or form an Ingrid Michealson fan, It's just those two sentences were, well, in a word, stupid.

Would you honestly call Britney Spears talented? If I were Elvis or Madonna, I'd be slightly insulted to be held up next to her on a list, but that's just me...

And yes, Michaelson may be gaining fame, but if she's trying to move forward and become more than an artist getting by from hit to hit, commercials and soundtracks aren't necessarily where it's at. Not when it means sacrificing your dignity for a sad attempt at an album.

awesome! This is turning into that thread about the fat Christian singer!

I don't listen too, never bought a song or like anyone on my list of three. Nor did I call any of them talented. Did they make an album out of a single song? Yes. Did they make a career out of a single song/album. Yes.

The last time I checked, the bank doesn't accept dignity in multiples of sad attempts. People are not buying CD's. They are illegally downloading or legally dowloading digital music. Where can an artist go? Why soundtracks, movies and commercials of course. Starting at $30,000, $50,000 $150,000 a pop. If that's 'not where it's at', then I want to be there making that kind of money so I can sit back and write my music. BTW - who's chris sligh?

I'm a musician and if I can get my song on a commercial, I'd like to be where it's not at. Eating a loser's lunch consisting bologna on bologna sucks. Being poor sux. I Ingrid sux, But if I had to take selling out over passing out (due to hunger) I'll take the former. end rant

Sam,

"an occasional one-hit-wonder", a phrase with an internal inconsistency problem, like being an occasional virgin.

I went listened to "Be OK". An act of intestinal fortitude was to persist in listening to the end. I hope this isn't typical of her other recordings. A rigid performance with a slightly shrill little girl's voice with a bit to much repetition of several lines.

She could learn something from this;
M (Robin Scott) - Pop Muzik: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB4-fkRW1uo

But in places on some of her other recordings she reminds me of a very early Joni Mitchell, maybe in a few years she will sound more like this,
Joni Mitchell - All I Want: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HiSq61HUhI

"Be OK" is NOT Michaelson's next album release after "Girls and Boys" It was merely a project of some of her show favorites. Her next full album is not due out until late 2009. In the meantime she was generous enough to put this project of show favorites together for her fans AND donate a portion of the proceeds to STAND UP 2 CANCER.

Mona,

Technically this is an album because it collects an array of individual recordings on to one disc or group of downloads, like a photograph album collects a group of pictures into one volume.

To back checked on myself, I referred to Dictionary.com:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/album

If you want to argue that this isn’t her follow up artistic statement to “Girls and Boys”, you are correct.

Her assembling this for her fans to get this group of selections in one more affordable place is considerate with part of the proceeds going to “Stand up 2 Cancer” is quite laudable,
but “Stand up 2 Cancer” would be bettered served if you just wrote a check and sent it directly to them.