Jill Sobule, American singer and composer known for her success of 1995 ‘I Kissed A Girl’, has died on Thursday morning when the house in which she stayed with friends in the suburb of Woodbury, in Minnesota, has died on the suburb of Thursday. I was 66 years old.
His representative, John Porter, has remembered Jill Sobule in a press release, pointing out that Sobule was a force of nature and a human rights defender whose music is part of our cultural fabric. “
Sobule published his debut album, ‘Things Here Are Different’, in 1990, but his takeoff would arrive five years – and a second archived album – then with the launch of his homonymous disc of 1995, which contained the successes ‘I Kissed A Girl’ and ‘Supermodel’. ‘I Kissed A Girl’ is considered the first openly LGBTQ+ song that entered the top 20 of the United States singles. ‘Supermodel’ was included in the soundtrack of the comedy ‘Clueless’ (1995).
Sobule continued publishing albums during the 90s and 2000, such as the acclaimed ‘Happy Town’ (1997). His personal letters toured songs such as depression, anorexia or his Jewish identity. His teenage concerns had transferred to the world of musicals, in the successful ‘Fuck 7th Grade’, an autobiographical work that Sobele presented since 2022.
The parallelism between the titles of the successes of Jill Sobule and Katy Perry – which in 2008 debuted with the single ‘i kisse to Girl’ – did not go unnoticed in the media. In 2009, Sobule commented on the coincidence, asked by a magazine, and left a statement deliberately out of tune, in which he said: “That they fuck you, Katy Perry, stupid of shit,” I am not good for the gays, ” Sobule explained in later statements that his words had been “ridiculous and exaggerated” on purpose, but that he didn’t really hate Katy Perry: “I have never been really angry or kept bad feelings towards Katy in itself. In fact, in a way I am glad to have ceased to be the girl from ‘i kisse to Girl’ ».
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