Posted on 03/06/2026 6:19:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s 1992. I’m on tour for my hit single, “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover,” off the album “Tongues and Tails.”
My band and I, including a woman drummer and percussionist, a woman keyboard player, and a woman background vocalist, arrive at the Old Vic theatre in Chicago.
The sound man hands me a note. It’s from Tori Amos, who also had a hit album out, “Little Earthquakes.” She writes to me that we shouldn’t be compared in the press. We are two unique artists, and she loves my album, especially the song, “Carry Me.”
I’ll never forget her kind gesture — and I’ll always pass on Tori’s magnificent, generous spirit toward women artists in the field. She stood up for our equal success.
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I tell my wife all the time, I love it when she's on top.
Never heard of em. Was she a singer with Carlos Santana?
Queer.
Being a woman doesn’t depend on reproductive organs, but for me, becoming a mother at the age of 43 and again at 50, and creating a family in which I feel safe, have been my first opportunities truly to surrender in love.
I achieved this while living in California, the land of new ideas, when I was 31, by freezing my embryos. It was new science then, and I’m so grateful it worked! My family of three — my son, my daughter, and I — relies on my female friendships for balance, inspiration, connection, and fun.
Hawkins said that she identified as omnisexual… Sophie B. Hawkins and Gigi Gaston Selling Their Venice Spanish 7 By Adrian Glick Kudler May 9, 2012, 12:34pm PDT 7 comments We had no idea that "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" singer Sophie B. Hawkins (ah, the nineties!) was paired up with Getty step-child Gigi Gaston--tipsters bearing real estate listings can really teach you things. Gaston is the daughter of Theodora Lynch Getty, J. Paul Getty's last wife (he founded Getty Oil and the eponymous museum and trust), and she grew up at the Getty beach house in Santa Monica, according to our tipster. Gaston and Hawkins's house in Venice, up for sale now, includes a "hand painted fireplace from the J Paul Getty beach house and tiles from Monet’s blue kitchen in Giverny," plus eight foot tall hand-carved mesquite doors, reclaimed oak and cypress floors, and a hand-carved marble fireplace. It has three bedrooms, four bathrooms, a dining room, and a separate garage structure converted into a recording studio and two legal studios apartments for a little extra income. Asking price is $3.265 million.
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Oh you did not mean "women" but how some certain ladies helped you on your road?
That is something different.
Oh. now I know who she is: Sophie is the one who wrote this song about either her father or grandfather called “As I Lay Me Down”. There is a certain refrain of made of words that sound like someone asking “Who Likes Tacos?”” over and over.
Thats the only thing I know from her.
Once heard, can’t be unheard.
Never heard of her, but after reading the piece, I truly feel sorry for her children. Particularly her son, who will likely never be a man. A lesbian, obsessed with gender identification.
How special...no men.
“I achieved this while living in California, the land of new ideas, when I was 31, by freezing my embryos. It was new science then, and I’m so grateful it worked! My family of three — my son, my daughter, and I — relies on my female friendships for balance, inspiration, connection, and fun.”
“Queer?”
More like strange shit, to me.
Right. I could never figure out the words in that refrain.
Now, I know! I like that song, but Sophie Hawkins is a strange bird. So I haven’t listened to that song since napster went out of business...song about her male progenitors? She sounds like a solipsistic nut.
I wonder what kind of damage freezing DNA does to the integrity of the code in the DNA....are there mutations induced?
Everytime I hear it, and “Sophie asks me Who Like Tacos?”,
in my head I’m replying “I DO!! Hold the cheese!”
“...Napster...”
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Remember when Napster and several other similar sites
were suing people for thousands of $$$
for downloading songs?
Whatever happened to all of that?
Funny. I have to listen to it ...just to see if I can hear what you’re hearing.
I think Napster got sued by all the record labels and got folded into some royalty scheme to pay the record companies for each song downloaded...end of napster...
The words are “nonsense words” .....ooh la kah koh...
above video displays those “words”
...”who likes tacos?” Sounds good to me!
Been done before...Zabadak! was a song from the sixties
So you heard it too. I think she was imitating the phonics of a Jungle Language. She is Australian, I think, and they have many types of dense forest lands,each with a variation of Aboriginine.
Plus, she says she is omnisexual. I assume that means she’ll have sex with anything. Yuck.
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