Posted on 05/01/2025 7:17:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jill Sobule, the singer of the groundbreaking 1995 hit “I Kissed a Girl,” has tragically died.
The musician and songwriter perished in a Minneapolis house fire early Thursday morning, several of her former colleagues confirmed to The Post. Sobule was 66.
She became a household name with “I Kissed a Girl,” which is widely viewed as the first openly gay-themed tune to make it into the Billboard Top 20. Millennials will know Sobule for her song “Supermodel,” which was featured in the 1995 coming-of-age teen classic film “Clueless.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Sobule was gearing up for “Jill Sobule presents: Songs From F–k 7th Grade & More” at Swallow Hill Music’s Tuft Theater in Denver, Colorado, on Friday, May 2.”
“The show has been canceled, per the theater’s website. An informal, free gathering will now take place in her honor.”
I’d hope so.
I hope she turned to Jesus before she passed away.
“.......7th Grade & More”
Are you serious? 😲
It wasn’t really groundbreaking; Sophie B. Hawkins had a song called “I Wish I Was Your Lover” three years earlier, in 1992. The twist was that she was singing about a woman all along.
Ping
How many Boomers think Katie Perry just died? (In case someone else doesn’t know, Perry had an infinitely more catchy, more popular song with the same title about a decade later.)
On the British Top 20, in 1968, there was a song about a man who gets arrested and thrown in jail for stealing women’s clothing and fancying himself in the mirror.
In America, they technically were a one-hit wonder (with a different song) until 1980, but I’m being deliberately outrageous calling them that.
Any guesses who I am talking about?
I remember the song for how sexually aggressive it was. And she kinda threw off Lesbian vibes, but I don’t recall anything that establishes the song was to a woman.
Lola is a boy!.....
I was just recently shattered in my 67th year by friends enlightening me that one of my favorite songs was about a cross dressing tranny....and probably a Democrat.
I feel both betrayed and dirty.
Stranger still: Lola kinda seems to rape the singer, who runs for the door, but is knocked down from behind. “I pushed her away/I ran to the door/ I fell to the floor.”
One of Tiny Timmy Tampon’s constituents. I’ll bet Timmy’s old lady had all the windows in the house wide open to the let in that old smokey smell she loves so much.
Well, I’ll be .... I always thought it was “mixed up, muddled up shook up world ... AND SO IS LOLA ...”
Lyrics made fun of homosexuals, so I thought it was kind of neat.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da?
The Beatles were one-hit wonders? Oh, well, it might seem just as outrageous to call Pink Floyd one-hit wonders, but their only hit single in the U.S. was Money, until they hit number one with Another Brick in the Wall Pt. II. They hit the top 20 twice in the U.K. before their first album came out, including with the song, Arnold Layne. Not gonna be a gay anthem, though: the guy steals women’s underwear and gets sent to jail.
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