{"id":118249,"date":"2024-08-16T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/16\/turn-the-radio-on-turn-the-radio-up-lisa-loebs-stay-i-missed-you-hit-1-30-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T12:01:11","slug":"turn-the-radio-on-turn-the-radio-up-lisa-loebs-stay-i-missed-you-hit-1-30-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/16\/turn-the-radio-on-turn-the-radio-up-lisa-loebs-stay-i-missed-you-hit-1-30-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn the radio on, turn the radio up: Lisa Loeb’s “Stay (I Missed You)” hit #1 30 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Aug. 17, Lisa Loeb<\/strong> will perform at the 17th annual SeaChange Summer Party<\/a>, a benefit for\u00a0ocean conservation charity\u00a0Oceana<\/a>. Of course she’ll perform her hit “Stay (I Missed You),” which hit #1 on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0<\/em>Hot 100 30 years ago. Featured in the movie\u00a0Reality Bites<\/em>, it’s still much loved and recognizable, and Lisa thinks she knows why.<\/p>\n

“It’s authentic instruments playing real music. I’m actually singing,” she tells ABC Audio. She also thinks the video<\/a>, directed by her friend and Reality Bites<\/em> star Ethan Hawke<\/strong>, made a difference:\u00a0“Videos were so important in the 1990s and definitely having a video that was one-take video … where I’m really singing to the camera, there’s the connection there, and I think people respond to a connection.”<\/p>\n

Plus, Lisa says, the lyrics are relatable. “It goes to the positive side and the negative side and the what-ifs,” she says. “Also … there are so many lyrics. I think people enjoy the fact that they’ve learned all the lyrics.”<\/p>\n

“But it is the universal message,” she adds. “I do hear a lot of feedback from people who come to the shows who tell me … what it means to them.” Some weren’t even\u00a0alive in 1994, but Lisa says they’ve discovered her through her appearances on shows like\u00a0Fuller House,<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Community <\/span><\/em>and\u00a0<\/span>That ’90s Show<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lisa, who still wears her signature cat-eye glasses,\u00a0says she’s playing the benefit because she appreciates Oceana’s work, which includes <\/span>convincing Amazon to stop<\/span><\/a> using those plastic air pillows in its packaging.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>You want to take care of the Earth, you want to make a difference. You aren’t sure if you personally can make a change,” says Lisa. But, she says, charities like Oceana are “able to make an impact … and give us tools and also make changes in laws. … And it also changes the attitude of people and their behavior.”<\/p>\n