nominated for three PLUG Independent Music Awards

In 2008, Clark was nominated for three PLUG Independent Music Awards : New Artist of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, and Music Video of the Year. On March 6, 2008, she won the PLUG Female Artist of the Year award. After returning to New York from a lengthy tour, Clark began working on her second album. Her inspiration reportedly came from several films, including Disney movies: “Well, the truth is that I had come back from a pretty long — you know, about a year-and-a-half of touring, and so my brain was sort of all circuit boards that were a little bit fried”, Clark said. “So I started watching films as sort of a way to get back into being human. And then it started to just really inform the entire record.” Clark, who did not have a studio at the time, began writing the album in her apartment on her computer using GarageBand and MIDI , because she had gotten noise complaints from neighbors. The songs were inspired largely by scenes from various children’s films. Clark said she imagined soundtracks for certain scenes in films when writing the music and lyrics, including scenes in Snow White (1937) and The Wizard of Oz (1939).