{"id":8956,"date":"2013-02-06T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2013-02-06T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:20:13","slug":"lisa-loeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/lisa-loeb\/","title":{"rendered":"LISA LOEB"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LISA LOEB<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The \u201990 chart-topper looks to the past to find new inspiration\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Lisa Loeb has spent the last\u00a0few years steeped in the world of children\u2019s entertainment. She released children\u2019s albums in 2008 and 2011. She wrote a children\u2019s book, and has a new one coming out in April. She started the Camp Lisa Foundation to\u00a0send underprivileged children to camp. And she had her second child in June 2012. So what coaxed her back to\u00a0making pop records?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ve been meaning to do for a long time, and that I kept starting, but then would get distracted from it by other projects,\u201d says Loeb, 44, of \u00a0No Fairy Tale<\/em>, her first album for adults since 2004. \u201cFinally, my friend\u00a0Chad Gilbert inspired me and instigated this record. I was trying to find an opportunity to do it, but it took having a partner like Chad to push me to get it going without worrying about so many of the\u00a0details in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loeb met Gilbert after his band, the pop-punk outfit A New Found Glory, covered her hit song \u201cStay.\u201d Gilbert had a radical new direction for Loeb, and roped in former tourmate Tegan Quin of twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara to write a couple of songs. \u201cChad and I were in touch over the years, but out of nowhere he said, \u2018I want to do a poppy-punky-rock record, what do you think?\u2019\u201d she recalls. \u201cHe thought he was totally surprising me with that genre and some of the bands he referenced, like Tegan and Sara. I was\u00a0like, \u2018Oh my God, I actually listen to them for fun! That\u2019d be awesome to\u00a0make a record like that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Gilbert also suggested the inspiration for the song \u201cThe \u201990s,\u201d in which Loeb revisits territory familiar to many fans. \u201cThe challenge of writing something that somebody specifically wants can be very daunting for me,\u201d she says. \u201cOnce I started writing, I was like, \u2018Oh, this is an interesting way to talk about a really specific event.\u2019 I was writing about making the video for \u2018Stay.\u2019 I don\u2019t usually write that literally.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she declares in the chorus, \u201cI don\u2019t want to go back,\u201d Loeb doesn\u2019t regret the reputation brought on by her early success. \u201cI\u2019m proud of that time period. I enjoyed myself, and people want to\u00a0hear about it a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n

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LISA LOEB The \u201990 chart-topper looks to the past to find new inspiration\u00a0 Lisa Loeb has spent the last\u00a0few years steeped in the world of children\u2019s entertainment. She released children\u2019s albums in 2008 and 2011. She wrote a children\u2019s book, and has a new one coming out in April. She started the Camp Lisa Foundation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[6021,5885,6020,6022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8958,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}