90s VOTW: “Stay,” Lisa Loeb
Lisa Loeb was so ahead of her time. The hip, thick-framed glasses, the indie artist who somehow managed to both avoid the music business and record a #1 single… she was pretty much the person that all the quiet, dorky bookworm girls wanted to secretly be. (Including me.) In other ways, though, she is so solidly 90s. That baby-doll dress? So Alicia-Silverstone-meets-Sad-Girl.
What I remember most about this video is that it was pretty much on endless loop on “Pop-Up Video.” God, remember “Pop-Up Video?” It was like the perfect marriage of two of my main interests during the Clinton administration: music vids and mindless trivia. That’s how I know that the cat hanging out in the apartment belongs to the video’s director and, more importantly, it’s how I know that Lisa Loeb HAS to wear those glasses because she’s allergic to contact lenses. I still don’t really understand how a person can be allergic to contact lenses, but whatevs. She rocks those glasses so hard.
I’m pretty sure that this video is squarely to blame for my obsession with someday living in a bright, spacious, airy post-industrial loft apartment. That, or this Jonathan Taylor Thomas movie.
So now I’m thinking a little bit more about the cat and … is Lisa Loeb supposed to be the stereotypical cat lady who’s lonely in her stark, bare apartment and is going to die alone someday? Because, excuse me, Lisa is way too cool for that. Come to think of it, most Lisas are too cool for that, at least the ones on the outskirts of fame: Lisa Bonet, Lisa Ling. (Full disclosure: I have followed Lisa Ling her entire career. Seriously, since day one. She was on Channel One news, which my high school showed after morning announcements, and I’ve always kept abreast of what she was doing ever since. Now, please refer back to paragraph one, wherein I say that I’m a quiet, dorky girl and nod your head in full agreement.)
Question: what do you think it means to talk “so” all the time? So?
Followed Lisa Ling’s her entire career = STALKER
Question: what do you think it means to talk “so” all the time? So?
I have no freakin’ idea, and it’s been bothering me FOR YEARS.
I still crank up this song when it comes up on shuffle. ANd “Pop-Up Video”? Best ever. I was super excited when I found out I could watch “Becoming Jane” with the same nifty pop-up trivia bits.
Oh, Channel One, you also gave us Anderson Cooper, not not not as cool as Lisa Ling.
I saw Lisa Loeb at Lilith Fair in 1997, jealous?
Talking so? I think it’s like a child asking “why?” after every statement, a girl asking “so?” after every statement her lover says as he’s trying to leave, or trying to get her to leave.
I can’t youtube at work, so I googled the lyrics, and even just reading them, I hear that song in my head so clearly. I’m now humming in my cube. I love your 90’s VOTW choices.
I saw Lisa Loeb at Lilith Fair in 1997, jealous?
YES. VERY. I would have loved to have gone to Lilith Fair. How awesome was it?
MAN OF THE HOUSE!! Haha.
When Lilith came to Star Lake in 1997, Jewel & Sheryl Crow were on the bill, so it attracted more than just the feminist/progressive crowd. Frat guys thrown in the mix, ugh. But overall is was a very cool vibe. I think maybe I’ll blog about it. There’s a funny little anecdote that illustrates how varied the crowd was. Give me a couple days.
Dude, I totally knew which JTT movie you meant without even clicking. God, the 90s were great.
I always thought she meant ’so’ in that exaggerated sense, as in the person constantly talked. That’s just me.