[12] She is also referenced in her father's 1989 song "Leningrad" (with the line "...He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced..."), in which "He" refers to a Russian man who became a circus clown after being in the Red Army.

[citation needed] Joel and her father performed the song "Baby Grand" at a Barack Obama election fundraiser at the Hammerstein Ballroom on October 16, 2008.

[29] Joel debuted her single "Invisible" on The Wendy Williams Show in October 2009,[30] the song being described as a "piano-driven ballad... about a bad breakup.

"[31] Alexa Joel's single, "Notice Me", released on May 24, 2010,[32] was listed as a "Hit-Bound song" on the Sirius XM Hits 1 satellite radio channel in August 2010.

[33] Newsday described the single as having a "carefree braininess" and "bouncy guitar riffs and an instantly hummable chorus" that made Joel's work "sound like Regina Spektor crossed with Katy Perry.

"[34] "Notice Me" is Joel's first collaboration with producer Tommy Byrnes and her first since signing with Long Beach, New York management company OCD Music Group/The Hang Productions.

[49] In September 2013, Joel became part of The Gap's "Back to Blue" television ad campaign, performing an interpretation of her father's 1977 song "Just the Way You Are.

Joel was reported to have taken "several pills"; an NYU Medical Center toxicologist said the drug has "no active ingredient" and indicated that it was essentially impossible to overdose ("basically you'd be taking more of nothing").

[51] Interviewed six months later by ABC News, Joel described herself as having been "distraught and in so much pain"[52] after the end of a four-year romantic relationship but not wanting to bother anyone since it was the holiday season.

[54] In a July 2010 interview with 20/20, Joel talked about "moving out of (the) shadows" of her "two megastar parents" and about recovery from her December 2009 crisis with depression.

[55] Stating that "I'm not a blond girl with blue eyes and that's fine",[55] she added that Ultimark Products approaching her to be the face of Prell shampoo was a "big confidence booster".