
The song reached #52 on the Billboard Hot 100. On February 4, 2014, Michaelson released the lead single, " Girls Chase Boys", from her album Lights Out. In September 2012, she was featured in a campaign called "30 Songs / 30 Days" to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book. Michaelson also played 3 shows in Australia, where Human Again was the first formally released record of hers. The Third Leg, The Human Again Fall Tour, began in September.

The second leg, The Human Again Summer Tour, was held from June to August. The first leg of Michaelson's tour was held from April to May. After the first tour, Michaelson continued to tour on 3 other legs, two in North America, and one across the world. Michaelson's first tour leg for the album, The Human Again Tour, was sold out almost every night of the tour. Human Again debuted at #5 on the Billboard charts and received very positive reviews, with critics praising the album's unique sound. In 2012, Michaelson released her fifth album, Human Again.

The song has not been featured on any albums, but is available on both iTunes and Amazon. In 2010, Michaelson digitally released the single "Parachute", a song that she wrote but was recorded by Cheryl Cole on Cole's album 3 Words. Signage announcing Michaelson at the Wiltern 2012 In less than 3 weeks, more than 65 appearances in prime-time had been made, including 17 season premieres. The 30-second ad played on the major US networks and most prime-time shows for a few days. Additionally, in 2007, "The Way I Am", a song from the album, was featured in an Old Navy commercial. It peaked at #63 on the Billboard charts and received positive reviews from critics. Through Original Signal, Michaelson re-released Girls and Boys into mainstream marketing on September 18, 2007.

Wanting to retain all of the rights she had as an independent artist, Michaelson developed a deal with Original Signal Recordings, acting as the marketing and distribution arm for Michaelson's label. After being contacted by the music producer, Michaelson began to be approached by several record companies. A music producer from the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy found her music online. The album, like her previous music, was streamed on Myspace. In 2006, Michaelson independently released her second album, Girls and Boys. Her time at Binghamton is mentioned in her song "The Hat." While at Binghamton University, she was a member of the Binghamtonics, a co-ed a cappella group, as well as the Pappy Parker Players, an improv comedy group, and the theatre repertory company under Sue Peters. Michaelson is a graduate of Staten Island Technical High School and Binghamton University, where she received a degree in theater. While there she met vocal coach Elizabeth McCullough, who worked with her through high school. She took up piano at age 4, and trained until age 7 at Manhattan's Third Street Music School, continuing for many more years at the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island's Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute. As a child, Michaelson performed in a musical theatre group called Staten Island Kids On Stage. Her mother, Elizabeth Egbert, was a sculptor, of Dutch ancestry. Her father, Carl Michaelson, was a manager of copyrights for the publishing company Carl Fischer Music and a composer on the side ("The Praise of Christmas"). Michaelson is half Swedish and was born in 1979 in New York City to artistic parents.

