The Song That Changed My Life: Lisa Loeb

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Lisa Loeb does it all. She is a Grammy-winning musician, has appeared in movies, hosted cooking and entertainment shows and even has her own line of glasses. Most recently, Lisa is contributing her talents to the podcast world and is starring in the new show Power Trip. We asked her about the song that changed her life, she gave it a lot of thought. She narrowed down her options from dozens and dozens of massively important tunes to arrive at a classic track – "Chuck E's in Love" from the legendary Rickie Lee Jones.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:11.2	For MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.
0:29.1	I'm now for the song that changed my life.
0:31.8	A chance for musicians and artists to tell us about the song that made them who they are.
0:36.0	Joining us today is a musician who wrote a song that I'm willing to bet changed the lives
0:41.0	of more than a few of our listeners.
0:55.7	You say I only hear what I want to.
1:17.1	You say I talk so all the time, so and I thought what I felt was central.
1:22.6	Yes, that's right, it's Lisa Lo.
1:26.9	Creator of one of the biggest hits of the 90s.
1:29.3	Stay.
1:30.3	That song kicked off Lisa's career.
1:43.4	She followed it with a handful of hit singles, hit albums, even a Grammy winning children's
1:47.7	record.
1:48.7	Lisa Lobe has also host cooking shows, entertainment shows, has appeared in movies like House
2:13.5	on Honit Hill and Hot Tub Time Machine 2.
2:24.1	Now Lisa Lobe is contributing her talents to the podcast world.
2:28.9	She's starring in the new show Power Trip.
2:31.2	It's a bonkers sounding fiction podcast about black market organ transplants, conspiracies,
2:37.9	and the real world consequences of giving humans superpowers.
2:42.2	The show also stars Tatiana Maslani as Jane, one of the superpowers people.
2:48.3	Lisa Lobe plays her mom, who knows about the superpowers, but is also, you know, a mom.
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