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Jill Sobule Death: Remembering the Trailblazing ‘I Kissed a Girl’ Singer
According to her publicist, Ms. Sobule, 66, passed away Thursday morning in Woodbury, Minnesota. Later in the week, she was supposed to perform songs from her musical.
Jill Sobule death
Three decades of touring, campaigning, and a one-woman show followed the success of Jill Sobule’s famous songs, “Supermodel” and “I Kissed a Girl.” According to her publicist, Sobule passed on Thursday morning in a house fire in Woodbury, Minnesota. Her age was sixty-six.
According to the Woodbury Public Safety Department in the Minneapolis suburb, firemen arrived to a burning residence about 5:30 a.m. According to the homeowners, one individual could still be inside. According to the authorities, a lady in her 60s was discovered dead inside the residence by firefighters.
It was not immediately apparent what caused the fire.
According to her publicist, Ms. Sobule was set to sing from her one-woman musical, “F*ck7thGrade,” at the Swallow Hill Music venue in her hometown of Denver on Friday. According to the publicist, she was practicing for the musical while lodging with friends in Minnesota.
Instead, there will be a free, unofficial event in Ms. Sobule’s honor.
The bisexual Ms. Sobule included the song “I Kissed a Girl,” which describes a woman kissing a female buddy, in her 1995 self-titled album. According to Ms. Sobule, the song was released during a time when being a queer singer was considered “dicey.” However, it became popular and appeared on the Billboard charts.
Ms. Sobule’s success was further solidified when her rebellious rock song, “Supermodel,” from the same album was used on the soundtrack of the romantic comedy “Clueless.”
In a 2022 interview with The New York Times, Ms. Sobule stated, “People call me a one-hit wonder.” “And I respond, ‘Hold on, I’m a two-hit wonder!'”
Although her subsequent albums, which were inventive and genreless, did not achieve the same degree of popularity, both reviewers and fans gave them favorable reviews.
In 2000, The Times said, “Now she sings about dumb boyfriends, weight-obsessed women, Alzheimer’s disease, and the failings of a long list of celebrated people.” “Ms. Sobule is an artist whose talent extends far beyond whom she kisses, with a wicked wit and a pliant facility for candor.”
Denver is where Ms. Sobule was born. It was not immediately possible to confirm any more details regarding her family. She jokingly remarked that her gym instructor, “who looked like Pete Rose,” and Miss Jane Hathaway from “The Beverly Hillbillies” had been her only LGBT role models as a child.
She talked about her middle school difficulties in her musical decades later. She talked of having an unrequited infatuation on a girl, feeling uncomfortable around the other females, and being called a homophobic slur.
Her guitar skills were apparent in the eighth grade, and she finally left school to pursue her career as a musician. In 1990, she released the album “Things Here Are Different,” marking the start of her recording career. Its track, “Too Cool to Fall in Love,” was aired on radios.
Her self-titled album launched her career to new heights in 1995. Katy Perry’s 2008 release of the song “I Kissed a Girl” brought the song back into the spotlight. Ms. Sobule subsequently recounted in an interview that she felt “jealous” when Ms. Perry used the term.
Not all of the survivors were listed right away.
She was vocal on a range of political and cultural problems in addition to performance, such as the French Resistance, the death sentence, anorexia, reproduction, and L.G.B.T.Q. concerns.
The president of the L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy group GLAAD, Sarah Kate Ellis, said in a statement, “She literally created a path for queer people and women in music.”
Ms. Sobule said that her objective was to reach a large audience of those who felt like misfits in her 2022 interview with The New York Times about her musical.
“The majority of people could give a [expletive], so we wanted to make sure the show wasn’t just for people interested in my career,” she stated. “I’m not that well-known. The tale of a weirdo growing up is rather universal.