After four Top 20 albums, platinum singles, and countless song placements in every-thing from Greys Anatomy to a Google ad, Ingrid Michaelson was looking for new inspiration. I wanted to create something through a different lens, says the overachieving Michaelson, whos currently adapting Nicholas Sparks The Notebook into a Broadway musical. So the singer transformed her obsession with the throwback sci-fi/horror drama Stranger Things into Stranger Songs, a melodic reflection on the human condition thats also filled with references to the series. Stranger Songs remains universal, most of it sweetly tapping into romance as nostalgia, beginning with its first single, the flirty, palpitating Missing You, about a teen love triangle. Theres something about Stranger Things thats really comforting. It reminds me of my childhood, she says. Its the best kind of escapism.Stranger Songs is out now! https://orcd.co/stranger_songs/