An authentic jerk was preferable to a likable sellout.” I’d argue that there are extra layers at work here, too.
It’s an isolated, freestanding period where a person’s unwillingness to view his existence as a commodity was prioritized over another person’s actual personality. In his book, Chuck Klosterman argues that this particular plot logic ties Reality Bites inexorably to the moment in which it was made: “As it turns out, the mid-’90s were the only time when the validity of this romantic conclusion was the prevailing youth perspective. Spoiler alert for a 28-year-old film: Winona Ryder chooses Ethan Hawke, and this is presented as a happy ending. The other guy is Ethan Hawke, a sullen but poetic loser who often acts like a total dick to Ryder but who, attractively, has no ambitions or career prospects. He works for a slick MTV-type network, and he wants to turn Ryder’s documentary work into digestible television fare. One of them, played by Stiller himself, is kind and loving and financially secure, but he’s also motivated by commercialism. In Reality Bites, Winona Ryder plays a recent college graduate and aspiring documentarian who’s torn between two guys. The film is a likable mainstream romantic comedy, but its character and point of view are defined by their inherent suspicion of things like likable mainstream romantic comedies. This makes the existence of Reality Bites somewhat paradoxical. The way Chuck describes it, Reality Bites is a film where the entire story hinges on the generational fear and distrust of the idea of selling out. In his new book The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman holds up Ben Stiller’s 1994 film Reality Bites as an avatar for a certain Gen-X mindset that flourished during a very specific moment in time. With Cake and Pie, Loeb has unquestionably proven the same about herself.In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Ron's an actual producer and record person. "The rock is more intensely rock, the acoustic songs are more intensely acoustic, the orchestral songs more intensely orchestral. "The songwriting's more combined with telling a story," Loeb added. "Now she has a more introspective sensibility about what has happened in her life and at the same time has quirky charm." "No one sounds like her," Fair told the Times. Led by the hauntingly plainspoken "The Way It Really Is," the bloodied-but-unbowed sentiments of "Underdog" and the gently empathetic "Kick Start," Cake and Pie reveals a songwriter and artist who has matured in impressive fashion. The result should delight the legions who made "Stay" a number one hit and landed Firecracker's "I Do" in the Top 20.
The result finds Loeb collaborating with a number of high-profile songwriters, including Glen Ballard, Randy Scruggs and current beau Dweezil Zappa. Ron Fair, the former RCA executive who was responsible for placing "Stay" in Reality Bites, was named president of Geffen's sister label A&M last year, and brought Loeb over to A&M for Cake and Pie. It's that kind of whimsy that Loeb's fans have grown to cherish, via her two albums on Geffen Records, Tails (1995) and Firecracker (1997). "Maybe we could get it sponsored by Viking, get cake-mix boxes with my picture on them."
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"We could make a video featuring the pie-oven roadie, get it on the - my favorite TV channel. "I've been talking to a friend who's a chef in Arizona with two restaurants," she told the Los Angeles Times. And in keeping with the food theme, Loeb is considering baking a pie onstage during each tour stop. The singer/songwriter, who came to fame with her song "Stay (I Missed You)" in the film Reality Bites, has relocated from New York to Los Angeles, where she has found plenty of work doing animation and commercial voice-overs as well as making guest appearances on The Nanny and The Drew Carey Show and appearing in the 1999 horror film House on Haunted Hill.īut while her music career may have been on the back burner during that time, it has not gone stale: Loeb's third album, entitled Cake and Pie, comes out on February 26. Although it's been four years since we last heard from her, Lisa Loeb has hardly been idle.
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