17 Facts About Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless.

Jill Sobule's 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.

Jill Sobule's output includes original songs available only via the Internet, a cover of Robert Earl Keen's Christmas novelty track "Merry Christmas from the Family," and a version of the late Warren Zevon's "Don't Let Us Get Sick" included on both Jill Sobule's acoustic album and on a posthumous Zevon tribute record.

The Jill Sobule album seemed to establish Sobule's commercial prospects, but her third album slowed that momentum while setting what has so far been the musical and production patterns for the rest of her career.

The liquidation of Artemis Records led Jill Sobule to extend her experiments with online music distribution and to relocate from New York City to Los Angeles.

Jill Sobule continued to write and perform prolifically and to compose original music for television, including for the popular Nickelodeon series Unfabulous.

Jill Sobule acted and performed her songs in writer-director Eric Schaeffer's 2004 film Mind the Gap, as a street musician in Astoria, Queens with a heart condition, who aspires to play in Manhattan.

In exchange for their donations, Jill Sobule offered her patrons an assortment of rewards with values commensurate with the amount of the donation.

On March 8,2008,53 days after the public launch of the site, Jill Sobule reached her target through donations from more than 500 people in 44 US states and the District of Columbia, and 11 foreign countries.

In 2018, Jill Sobule again used crowd funding to assist with the production of her next album, "Nostalgia Kills".

Since 2020, Jill Sobule has acted as musician-in-residence at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, an LGBTQIA community center.

In 2005, Jill Sobule contributed music to Unfabulous, a popular Nickelodeon TV series about a 13-year-old aspiring songwriter, including a title song performed by Jill Sobule under the program's opening credits.

In 2006, Sobule met Julia Sweeney, the actress, writer and comedian, and started performing the "Jill and Julia Show", a compilation of songs and stories.

Also in 2006, Jill Sobule created a theme song for blogger Arianna Huffington's self-help book On Becoming Fearless.

In May 2008, Jill Sobule released a CD of music from Prozak and the Platypus, a multi-media collaboration of Jill Sobule, playwright Elise Thoron, and graphic artist KellyAnne Hanrahan.

The play, written by Thoron and Jill Sobule and illustrated in a graphic novella by Hanrahan, tells the story of a fierce young woman, Sara and her father Arvin, a neuroscientist, who relocates his family from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia to study REM sleep in the platypus, a unique species native to Australia.

Jill Sobule shared her feelings about Perry's song and use of the title in a July 2009 interview with The Rumpus:.