#jill sobule

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R.I.P. Jill Sobule

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How’d we do this year lads? Did we get a good grade in music?

(shiny new tag game under the cut... I know I said chaos blogging when I first posted this... but it was too much chaos, so I'm making it more dash friendly, but the original post is in the notes and the rest is under the cut 💛)

Is anyone else still listening to albums? I feel like a lot of folks have moved on to playlists. I still love an album though. Pleased to see I listened to 17.

And I was surprised EJAE's In Another World took top song. But it was SO good. I couldn’t stop listening. The lyrics spoke to me in such an interesting way. They spoke to me because they almost but not quite applied to something. And it was the "note quite" part that helped me gain some clarity. Just being like "oh... it wasn't this." It’s such beautiful songwriting.

But the real MVP of lyrics this year goes to Jill Sobule. In Mexican Wrestler she sings, “it’s not that you’re so special, you’re just a cross I bear.” And that was a moment of clarity. A fucking revelation. I wish I could have thanked her for it. I had been listening to that song a lot after she died. But in that one bootleg, she just puts EVERYTHING into that line. And after listening to it god knows how many times. It just. Hit me.

Music is a powerful thing.

I wasn't surprised Jill took top artist again this year. She was my top last year too. And... well.

And inexplicably, "oh god I think I'm falling" from Madonna's Like a Prayer just kept popping into my head for no apparent reason and getting very stuck in my head. It's more about the sounds than the words? idk (it clocked in at #49 as a result)

And last but not least, shout out to @barrhorn's love can't make you strong (until love can make you weak) for the music linked at the end of the first chapter 10/10, all of them.

[full disclosure, I wrote half of the above before making the list for the game... and went back and wove the rest of the answers in, so it's not particularly in order lol]

Alright. New tag game. Tag some folks, share your screen caps. And…

1. What surprised you?

2. What didn’t surprise you?

3. Tell me a story about one of your top songs or albums

4. Do any lyrics stand out for you this year? What spoke to you. What was meaningful? What got inexplicably stuck in your head?

5. Did fic or fandom influence your listening this year?

Reblog and tag some friends, strangers, or anyone in between. And as always FEEL FREE TO JOIN IN EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT TAGGED. The more the merrier!! Bonus points if you tag some non-mutuals: tag someone you see in your notes regularly that you don't follow AND someone who you follow that doesn't follow you back. we've become too focused on beloved mutuals

I'm tagging, in no particular orderrrrr *mind goes entirely blank* *goes into my notifications to start pulling names*

@renegadefencer @katdelacey @proudlyunicorn @gleerant @gowalkyourself @unleash-the-doves @brittanagirlcrush @flyingflesheater @prettylittlepoutymouth @jennamacaroni @sapphicagenda @sapphicscholar @mad-cow-mama @allthrumyribs @intextrovert @breadbowlstrike @bat-poet @skillzyo @jobethdalloway @samaelschain @ohhheyitsnic @fuckyeahpikacha @hernightsky and MRS @ohhheyitsnic WHY CANT I THINK OF BLAIRS TUMBLR NAME, I SEE IT CONSTANTLY WITH PIRATES... oh wait @scififantasies (it came to me after ten minutes lol) @xactodreams @jazzfordshire @randomthingsthatilike1

okay 😂 that's probably enough people?? No pressure, but feel free to join in! If you don't have spotify, make some shit up

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Jill Sobule, Singer-Songwriter of Groundbreaking 1995 Song ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dies in House Fire

Jill Sobule, whose 1995 hit 'I Kissed a Girl' is considered the first openly gay-themed song to crack the Billboard Top 20, died in a fire T

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I Kissed a Girl - Jill Sobule (1995)

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Just found out that Jill passed away today. She was one of my favorite singers of all time. She used to sing this song to end her shows.

Jill was one of the first and only artists who I ever saw in concert -- I saw her every time she came through my area, which was only about every 3 years or so, but at least 5 times since I first discovered her in my early twenties. The last time I saw her was in September 2024. She laughed, she joked, she took requests. She has local family and they always came to her shows and she always pointed them out and sometimes brought them on stage with her. She was absolutely, utterly fearless, in a way I really admired. She was proudly queer, proudly Jewish, proudly atheist, proudly leftist, and never anyone but herself.

I'm really sorry to hear she's gone.

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Everyone is talking about the queer impact of I Kissed a Girl but I want to tell you all about one time my father and I went to see Jill Sobule. It was maybe five years ago and, like most of the shows we go to, it was in a church (folky acts from the 90’s always play in churches). Afterwards, my dad was like come on, I’ll get you a CD (which okay I have my own money and I was in my late 20’s but that’s fine) and when we went to get it signed, he so completely devolved into a fangirl that he forgot it was for me and accidentally got it signed for himself. I didn’t even say anything, it was so funny. My father is the most curmudgeonly northern New England emotionally unavailable man you can imagine. And he went to absolute pieces for Jill Sobule. And that’s what I’m gonna remember. With my CD that says “To Mitchell, Love Jill”

Also here’s the song that made me cry on the way home today (high school was hard for me):