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Netflix's hit 'Stranger Things' inspired Ingrid Michaelson, and her 'Stranger Songs' is the result

The hit Netflix series "Stranger Things" has captured the imagination of viewers, among them Ingrid Michaelson, whose new album "Stranger Songs" was inspired by the show.

The singer-songwriter was instantly drawn to the look and feel of the sci-fi drama, which debuted in 2016 and is now in its third season. It's a period piece that begins in 1983 in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. The show is packed with retro props that re-create a pre-internet era of rotary dial telephones, tube socks, banana-seat bikes, boomboxes and Dungeons & Dragons.

"'Stranger Things' made me feel

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