Jill Sobule
Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule song), I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel (Jill Sobule song), Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film ''Clueless (film), Clueless''. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin, and Randy Newman. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's Jewish heritage and her adolescent battles with anorexia nervosa, anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing. In 2009, she released ''California Years'', an album funded entirely by fan donations, making her an early pioneer of crowdfunding. Since 2020, she has acted as musician-in-residence at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, an LGBTQIA community center. History and studio recordings T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Things Here Are Different
''Things Here Are Different'' is the first album by the American singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1990. It contains the singles "Living Color" and "Too Cool to Fall in Love". Track listing All songs written by Jill Sobule except as noted. #"Living Color" – 4:04 #"Sad Beauty" – 3:32 #"Too Cool to Fall in Love" (Holland, Melamed, Sobule) – 3:51 #"Life Goes on Without You" – 4:20 #"Pilar (Things Here Are Different)" – 3:21 #"Evian" (Eaton, Jacobson, Sobule) – 3:16 #"So Kind" (Bunch, Sobule) – 3:46 #"Tell Me Your Dreams" (Eaton) – 4:01 #"Disinformation" – 3:38 #"Golden Cage" – 3:56 #"The Gifted Child" – 2:00 The single, "Too Cool to Fall in Love" peaked at 17 on the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart in fall 1990. Personnel *Jill Sobule – guitar, vocals *Valentina Charlap-Evans – violin, viola *Carole Cowan – violin *Emily Faxon – violin *Eric Jacobson – synthesizer, piano, glockenspiel, keyboards, recorder, handclapping *Sid McG ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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I Kissed A Girl (Jill Sobule Song)
"I Kissed a Girl" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jill Sobule. The song, released on May 2, 1995, reached number 20 on the US ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart, number 67 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and number 36 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. In Canada, it debuted and peaked at number 15 on the newly established ''RPM'' Alternative 30 chart. Music video The music video featured Italian model Fabio playing Sobule's heterosexual love interest. It parodies his romance novel covers, and features young women in 1960s-style hair and dresses. Track listings and formats * CD single # "I Kissed a Girl" – 3:13 # "Resistance Song" – 2:59 # "I Kissed a Girl" (live) – 3:02 * Cassette single # "I Kissed a Girl" – 3:13 # "Resistance Song" – 2:59 Charts Katy Perry song comparisons In 2008, pop singer Katy Perry issued a song of her own called "I Kissed a Girl" for her debut album ''One of the Boys''. The song received mixed revi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Denver
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian we ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Advocate (LGBT Magazine)
''The Advocate'' is an American LGBT magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription. ''The Advocate'' brand also includes a website. Both magazine and website have an editorial focus on news, politics, opinion, and arts and entertainment of interest to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people. The magazine, established in 1967, is the oldest and largest LGBT publication in the United States and the only surviving one of its kind that was founded before the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, an uprising that was a major milestone in the LGBT rights movement. On June 9th, 2022 Pride Media was acquired by Equal Entertainment LLC known as equalpride putting the famous magazine back under queer ownership. History ''The Advocate'' was first published as a local newsletter by the activist group Personal Rights in Defense and Education (PRIDE) in Los Angeles. The newsletter was inspired by a police raid on a Los Angeles gay bar, the Black Cat Tavern, on Ja ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Happy Town (album)
''Happy Town'' is the third album by the American singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1997. The album contains the singles "Bitter" and "When My Ship Comes In" as well as "Half a Heart" and the satirical social commentary "Soldiers of Christ", where Sobule sings from the point of view of a Christian Conservative to illustrate the existence of homophobia in religion. The album sold 24,000 copies in the US within the first year of its release. "Bitter" peaked at No. 74 on the Australian ARIA singles chart in June 1997. The album peaked at No. 83 on the Australian ARIA albums chart during the same month. Sobule was dropped by Atlantic after the release of ''Happy Town''. The album cover illustration, which initially featured a Prozac pill, was changed to show a pair of test tubes when Wal-Mart refused to carry the album in its stores. The company asserted that the original image promoted drug abuse. Critical reception ''The Spokesman-Review'' called the album "a bold step fo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fabio (model)
Fabio Lanzoni (; born March 15, 1959), known mononymously as Fabio, is an Italian-American actor, fashion model, and spokesman. Lanzoni is known for his wide-ranging career including appearing as a romance novel cover model throughout the 1990s; his acting and television roles, including multiple cameo appearances as himself; and his music and books. He has been a spokesman for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! and the American Cancer Society. Early life Lanzoni was born 15 March 1959 in Milan, Italy, to Flora Carnicelli Lanzoni and Sauro Lanzoni, a mechanical engineer and owner of a conveyor-belt factory and/or company. Lanzoni has an older brother, Walter, and younger sister, Cristina. Lanzoni's father wanted Lanzoni to become an engineer and take over the family business. When he was 3 years old, Lanzoni sampled liquors that were left on the kitchen counter, leading to him being hospitalized. Lanzoni claims this unpleasant experience "left a lasting bad impression" and cau ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two dance-pop albums. In 1995, she released ''Jagged Little Pill'', an alternative rock-oriented album with elements of post-grunge, which sold more than 33 million copies globally and is her most critically acclaimed work to date. It earned her the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1996 and has been made into a rock musical of the same name in 2017, which earned fifteen Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical. The album was also listed in the 2003 and 2020 editions of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Guide. The lead single, "You Oughta Know", was also included at #103 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. A highly anticipated, more experimental follow-up, electronic-infused album, ''Supposed Former Infatuatio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Juliana Hatfield
Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls (band), Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Juliana Hatfield Three, along with bassist Dean Fisher and drummer Todd Philips, which was active in the mid-1990s and again in the mid-2010s. It was with the Juliana Hatfield Three that she produced her best-charting work, including the critically acclaimed albums ''Become What You Are'' (1993) and ''Whatever, My Love'' (2015) and the singles "My Sister (Juliana Hatfield song), My Sister" (1993) and "Spin the Bottle" (1994). She has performed and recorded as a solo artist and as one half of Get There (Minor Alps album), Minor Alps with Matthew Caws of Nada Surf. In December 2014, ''Paste (magazine), Paste'' named her cover of the song "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith number 10 in a list of the 20 Best Cover Songs of 2014. In 2014, she ref ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lisa Loeb
Lisa Loeb (; born March 11, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and actress. She started her career with the number 1 hit song "Stay (I Missed You)" from the film '' Reality Bites,'' the first number 1 single for an artist without a recording contract. She achieved two additional Top 20 singles with "Do You Sleep?" in 1996 and " I Do" in 1998. Her studio albums include two back-to-back albums that were certified gold; these were '' Tails'' and '' Firecracker.'' Loeb's film, television and voice-over work includes guest starring roles in the season finale of '' Gossip Girl,'' and two episodes, including the series finale, of Netflix's '' Fuller House.'' She also starred in two other television series, '' Dweezil & Lisa,'' a weekly culinary adventure for the Food Network that featured her alongside Dweezil Zappa, and '' Number 1 Single'' on E! Entertainment Television. She has also acted in such films as '' House on Haunted Hill,'' ''Fright Night,'' '' Hot T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jill Sobule (album)
''Jill Sobule'' is the second album by the American singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, released on April 7, 1995. The disc contained the singles "Good Person Inside", "Supermodel" and "I Kissed a Girl". The album sold 100,000 copies in the US, making it her most commercially successful record. Track listing The first release of the album does not contain "Supermodel". After "Supermodel" appeared on the ''Clueless'' film soundtrack and was released as a single, the album was reissued with the song. Personnel *Jill Sobule – guitar, sound effects, vocals, background vocals, tambo drums *Sam Bacco – percussion, tympani *Richard Barone – vocals, background vocals *Pat Bergeson – harmonica * J.D. Blair – snare drums * Chris Carmichael – violin, cello *Sue Davis – background vocals *Robin Eaton – bass guitar, guitar, vocals, background vocals *Buddy Emmons – pedal steel guitar *Mac Gayden – banjo *Byron House – bass guitar * Brad Jones – organ, synthesizer, bas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joe Jackson (musician)
David Ian "Joe" Jackson (born 11 August 1954) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Having spent years studying music and playing clubs, he scored a hit with his first release, "Is She Really Going Out with Him?", in 1979. It was followed by a number of new wave singles, before he moved to more jazz-inflected pop music and had a top 10 hit in 1982 with " Steppin' Out". Jackson is associated with the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US. He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 20 studio albums and received five Grammy Award nominations. Biography Early years Born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, David Jackson spent his first year in nearby Swadlincote, Derbyshire. He grew up in the Paulsgrove area of Portsmouth, where he attended the Portsmouth Technical High School. Jackson's parents moved to nearby Gosport when he was a teenager. He learned to play the violin but soon switched to piano, and prevailed on his father to install one in the ha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |