Interview with Lisa Loeb: How "Stay" Became a #1 Hit Without a Record Deal

Up next, an interview with a singer-songwriter that many gen-exers had a crush on. Lisa Loeb! She was in a duo and then they broke up… She actually played music for 10 years and sold indie cassettes of her music but never caught a break until she met an up-and-coming actor, Ethan Hawke… He lived near her. He caught a show and gave a cassette of one of her songs to a director for consideration for a movie they were making. That movie... the 1994 hit film Reality Bites...The song was used in the movie and almost overnight it went to #1 and she didn’t even have a record deal… making her the first ever to do that! Pretty good negotiating position. Up next in an interview, she tells us the story.

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