Ingrid Michaelson's one of those intensely confessional and super relatable singer-songwriters whose lyrics often feel like they were ripped right from the pages of your very own journal. In her new video "Ghost," from Ingrid's upcoming fourth album Human Again, the New York-based indie-pop songstress actually becomes that journal, as each line of the beautifully heartache-y song shows up scrawled across her body.
Directed by Ingrid herself, the video takes us through a series of gorgeous black-and-white photographs in which "Ghost" lyrics appear handwritten on her palms, arms, shoulders, back, neck, chest and face. The penmanship's girly and sweet -- crooked cursive, flowery script and old-school bubble letters -- and the only color comes from the roughly doodled Valentine-red hearts that get superimposed over Ingrid's mouth. It's the perfect treatment for such a stark, intimate tearjerker of a song (and the first single from Human Again, due out Jan. 24). And when the video's fast-changing frames set "Ghost"'s choked-up refrain ("I'm broken down the middle of my heart/You know you make me a ghost") to shots of Ingrid in her nerdy/foxy black-rimmed glasses, it just begs the question, "What kind of jerk could ever do this cutie pie wrong?" Sigh.
+ Watch Ingrid Michaelson's "Ghost" video.