Episode 2922
Jill Sobule
Sat, 2025-May-03 02:13 UTC
Length - 1:54
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With 207,999 views on Friday, 2 May 2025 our article of the day is Jill Sobule.
Jill Sobule ( SOH-bee-ull; January 16, 1959 – May 1, 2025) was an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 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 and depression, frequently occurred in Sobule's writing.
In 2009, Sobule released California Years, an album funded entirely by fan donations, making her an early pioneer of crowdfunding.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:13 UTC on Saturday, 3 May 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Jill Sobule on Wikipedia.
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