Lucy Woodward, who has been singing in New York clubs and commercials since she was 16, made it clear to Billboard.com that she didn’t let a major producer come in and shape her first album. “I’ve been writing for the past five years, but the last year I got really serious about it,” Woodward said. “I had written half these songs before I met John, and I wanted to work with him for a long time, before he produced Michelle Branch and became ‘John Shanks.’ I knew I was going to make a guitar-based record, and I loved what he did. When you’re the new act on Atlantic Records, people come forward and try to work with you, but I was like, ‘No, it has to be John.’”

Dan Aquilante of the New York Post interviewed Lucy Woodward, who was promoting her new single ‘Dumb Girls’ and her new album ‘While You Can’, which is released on Tuesday (April 1). Asked if ‘Dumb Girls’ was about her personal experience, Woodward says, “Yeah. ‘Dumb Girls’ is about thinking you’re not ever going to get dumped, thinking that you’re invincible and that your guy would never break up with you. I used to think only dumb girls get dumped and I was too smart for that, and then I found out I was just a dumb girl.”

That moment when a pop star first hears her song on the radio is supposed to be joyous, but for Lucy Woodward, it was anything but. Z-100 was set to play her track ‘Dumb Girls’, but Lucy was suffering from food poisoning. “When I heard it, I was having the worst (I mean, the wuh-hurst!) case of food poisoning. I was throwing up all day,” she explained. “I’m sweaty and delirious and someone calls from Atlantic to tell me it’s going to be on the air at 4:05. I didn’t know what to make of it because I was just lying there. It airs and I manage to peep out a little scream of pure excitement. Then I run to the bathroom to throw up some more. It was a surreal moment I will never forget.”