![]() "So when I got to New York, we ended up running in the same circles. "One of my friends at Brown was a professional actor and had been in a movie with Ethan called 'Alive,'" she says. She met Hawke through a friend she made while a student at Brown University. ![]() And that was such a different type of video at the time that it stood out on MTV and VH1." Ethan Hawke and the proximity effect "He wanted something that was like me telling a story, singing straight to the camera like I was having a conversation or an argument with someone and that's what he captured in that one-take video," Loeb recalls. It doesn't hurt that the singer delivers her personal take on relationship troubles in the context of one of the decade's more contagious ballads or that Hawke directed such a memorable music video. Loeb figures part of what made her breakthrough single so successful is that it offers "a very personal take on a classic heartbreak and argument theme, so people really connect with it." In addition to earning a spot in "Reality Bites," "Stay (I Missed You)" was chosen to be the first single released from the soundtrack. I had done so much recording as part of a demo deal with a record label." I don't know if we sent other songs along with that one. "And 'Stay (I Missed You)' was one of the standout songs that people would always request when I played and Ethan really liked it. "But Ethan still thought that some of my music would fit in really well with the movie and what they were doing," Loeb recalls. They ended up going with David Baerwald's version over Loeb's. "And he performs a song called ‘I'm Nuthin'.’ So he asked if I could write a song called ‘I’m Nuthin.'’ A couple of other professional musicians were asked to write a song. "In the movie, he's in a band," she says. 1 was when her friend and neighbor, Ethan Hawke, asked her to write a song for Ben Stiller's "Reality Bites." The next missed opportunity that put her on the path to No. ![]() So it was a good place to start and a good sort of musical bed to tell a story." On the road to 'Reality Bites' And I am a huge Hall & Oates fan, especially some of their older songs. I get inspired by a lot of different types of things. But it did inspire me to kind of think outside the box. I'm not sure if my lead was even strong in retrospect. "About halfway through writing the song," she says, "I found out Daryl Hall wasn't looking for songs anymore. She'd heard that Daryl Hall was looking for material. The song was written with a different vocalist in mind. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, an accomplishment no other unsigned act had ever managed.Īnd she owes it all to things not going quite the way she planned. It's been 25 years since Lisa Loeb carved out a little slice of music history when "Stay (I Missed You)" made its way to No.
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