CONSIDERING she’s cracking the big time with a pop song called “Dumb Girls,” Lucy Woodward is pretty bright.

Currently on AOL’s music streaming site (which boosted the careers of such artists as Michelle Branch and Avril Lavigne), “Dumb Girls” is snagging half a million hits a week and is moving up Billboard’s Top 40 chart.

Its popularity is due as much to its catchy melody as the funny, self-deprecating lyrics like “You bring out the blonde in me.” This song has found an audience anxious to hear what the full-length album, “While You Can,” is like when it comes out Tuesday.

At 26, Woodward’s a newcomer – but music’s been a part of her life since she was a kid, growing up on the Upper East Side.

“There was always music in the Woodward house,” she told The Post.

“My mother is a musicologist, she teaches junior high and was a belly dancer. I heard a lot of Middle Eastern music when I was young.

“Back then I wanted to be a classical flautist, until I was 15,” she continued. “Flute was my life and then I realized I had a voice, I grew boobs and met boys. That was the end for flute.”

Woodward, who lived for a while in The Bronx before going off on tour, is single. She says she has a crush on someone in the city, but he doesn’t know and she’s not about to tell him:

“I can’t afford to have a boyfriend right now because I’m too occupied with the album.”

Post: “Dumb Girls” sounds like a song from the heart. Is it from personal experience?

Woodward: 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.

Post: Sounds like the song should have been “Dumb Guys.” Do you see this fellow around?

Woodward: I have no idea where he is and I’m not going to say his name, but I did hear he was alive somewhere in New York. About a year ago he called me crying to tell me he wanted me to come back to him. I didn’t.

Post: He was the love of your life – you wrote songs about him. What happened?

Woodward: He couldn’t handle me playing gigs and the attention I got. He didn’t trust me enough to know that after a gig I was going home to him.

Post: What are looking for in a guy?

Woodward: I promised myself I’d never go out with musicians, but I’m always going out with musicians. Drummers are good, bass players are the best. I need to be with someone who has a deep understanding of the arts, a creative mind – and they have to dance. But no actors.

Post: Why not?

Woodward: You never know who you’re getting.

Post: You mean what you’re getting.

Woodward: No who. They go to an audition and they’re still the character when they get home. No actors.

Post: So when I listen to your album are you acting or is it a tour of your personal life?

Woodward: Anybody who listens to my album will hear who I am – 100 percent. There are love songs, breakup songs and songs about my ups and downs and how I deal with things.

Post: Is there any single song that lets the listener know you best?

Woodward: “What’s Good for Me.” That song is about intuition and putting everything into the moment. I want to live for the day and eventually I’m going to find what’s good for me.

Post: It sounds premature, since your first album isn’t even out yet, but do you worry about the next one and the sophomore jinx?

Woodward: I’m already trying to write for the next record. It took my whole life to write my first record and I’ll have to write the next one in a year or two. Yeah, I’m a little afraid – it scares the s – – – out of me. There is so much pressure about that second record, but you never want to rush a song.

Post: Sometimes things done fast are really good.

Woodward: Sometimes. Sometimes they’re a huge disappointment.

Post: When are you most creative?

Woodward: Inspiration comes at any time. When it feels right to write a song you could be on the subway at 2 in the morning and you don’t have any paper and you have to write on the bottom of your sneaker because that’s the only way you’re going to remember it. That’s when you know you have something. It might need to be honed, but you have something.

Post: Not everybody writes their music. What does writing do for you?

Woodward: It helps you develop a style. I remind myself that it is hard work, but you have to find your style, hold onto it. You have to listen to what people say but follow your heart. A young singer has to find her voice – becoming a blonde or getting implants isn’t going to help you find your sound. Period.

Post: Your good looks have helped you, haven’t they?

Woodward: Yeah, I guess. I’ve always liked putting on lipstick and getting dressed up, but when it comes down to doing a record in the studio I’m like the sweatiest, greasiest, baseball-cap-wearing singer. When I work, I get gritty.

“Flute was my life and then I realized I had a voice, I grew boobs and met boys. That was the end for flute.”Lucy Woodward

“I’ve always liked putting on lipstick and getting dressed up, but when it comes down to doing a record in the studio I’m like the sweatiest, greasiest, baseball-cap-wearing singer.”Lucy Woodward