I wanted to be an actor when I grew up - I could imagine doing actual acting, or musical theater was really exciting. I don't think cooking shows or reality shows existed in my mind. Was this how you imagined your trajectory when "Stay" came out? You had a cooking show, you were on a reality show, you make kids' music. You've done so many different kinds of things in the past 20 years. It was exciting to have all that happening, but there was a lot of real work, too. ![]() I was trying to make deals with my band members and make the album we were trying to make. I think the hardest part was dealing with the perception of people close to me, and those who don't even know me, asking if I was a different person. It was just getting to be a professional musician and entertainer. I could get the clothes I needed to have, the gear I wanted to have. The biggest surprises were things like really having the resources to do all the things I had been trying to do already. It was exciting to not have to do a job I didn't want to do, because even when I was temping, I took it seriously. ![]() What was it like to go from unknown to having a song that's a top ten Billboard chart hit? Same with Ben Stiller or Janeane who had a lot of indie credibility but still were breaking through. He was in some ways a really big movie star, but he was a real actor. It was sort of that era when someone like Ethan Hawke could hit the mainstream. It kind of made sense because the movie was like that too. You'd find alt radio or MTV alt programming or go to the art house movie theater to see more underground movies, so this brought me back to the pop culture world. I didn't really listen to a lot of pop radio or watch big Hollywood movies in those days. Once it was started to play on the radio, it was a surprise. All these record companies who were sort of interested in me - this made them brave enough to actually be more specifically interested. In some ways, it played out exactly like I had hoped. It wasn't like I was selling out - it was like being part of a really cool mix tape. were on the soundtrack, so it was a variety of bands from different genres I respected. It was the first thing that made me feel like I was going to be on a bigger level - U2 and Dinosaur Jr. It was something very concrete towards having a music career, which had been bubbling under for three years for me at that point. I quit my temp job when I found out the song was going to be on the soundtrack. ![]() I didn't know if it was going to be my big break, but I was really excited. What were you doing when you were told it was going to be part of Reality Bites? Did you have a sense that it was going to be your big break? Ethan asked me for a copy of my song "Stay." I gave him a copy I had recorded in NYC, and he passed it along to Ben Stiller. There was a group of us who hung out together and saw each other's shows. I met Ethan Hawke through some of my friends from college. I used to play "Stay" along with a lot of the other song I wrote in the '90s in bars and clubs down in the Village in New York, and that was one of the songs that was more requested. The main part of the song is autobiographical, which I don't normally do. I think I was going through an argument with a boyfriend at the time, someone I worked with a lot. I love his earlier stuff like "Sara Smile" and "Rich Girl." But I found out before I finished writing the song that he didn't need songs anymore. I learned Daryl Hall from Hall & Oates was looking for songs. The summer after college I went to Berklee summer school, and it was a song I was writing then. I wrote it a couple years after I graduated from college, and - how old was I? 24 maybe? 23, 24. The single peaked at #39 on Billboard's Top 40 Mainstream chart, #38 on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart, #71 on The Billboard Hot 100, and #18 on the American Top 40 radio show/chart.I must have written it in 1992. ![]() The lyrics of last line she says in a request form, "I'll stop crying if you'll stop lying to me." The song is also on Loeb's 2006 greatest hits album, The Very Best of Lisa Loeb. In other words, she is saying there is no use crying over spilled milk, which means not to worry about the little things in life. There is a lyric where she says, "I'll stop crying on the mountain that we made from the molehill where we spilled the milk". It is about a mistake that she has made in a relationship, and she just wants her and her boyfriend to forget about it. " Let's Forget About It" is a song by Lisa Loeb from her 1997 album Firecracker. 1997 single by Lisa Loeb "Let's Forget About It"
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