She referred to as residence to say she’d be late
He stated he’d frightened however now he’d really feel secure
I’m glad you’re together with your girlfriend
Inform her hello for me
After which I checked out you
You had guilt in your eyes
However it solely lasted a short while
After which I felt your hand above my knee
“I Kissed a Girl,” which got here out because the lead single from Sobule’s self-titled 1995 LP, reached the highest 20 of Billboard’s different radio chart and peaked at No. 67 on the all-genre Scorching 100; the music’s music video, starring the mannequin Fabio as one of many crummy boyfriends, was nominated for 2 prizes at MTV’s Video Music Awards. Sobule’s self-titled album additionally spawned the punky “Supermodel,” which was featured on the soundtrack of that 12 months’s hit “Clueless” film.
Sobule was a part of a mid-’90s cohort of intelligent songwriters that included Juliana Hatfield, Lisa Loeb and Liz Phair, whose success might be seen as a response to the gloomy, male-dominated grunge craze of some years earlier. But Sobule acknowledged the persistent sexism that adopted her and her friends onto tv and the covers of magazines.
“I love the way they try to pit us against each other — like it’s ‘Dynasty’ and we’re gonna get in a Joan Collins/Linda Evans fight,” she joked to the Los Angeles Instances in 1995. “Me and Sheryl Crow, going at it!”
Sobule was born in Denver in 1959 and performed guitar in her highschool jazz band. Finding out overseas whereas in school, she was noticed by a nightclub proprietor as she and a buddy carried out on the road in Madrid; he invited them to play his membership, and he or she dropped out of college a month later.
