In 2008, Katy Perry released his first single “I kissed a girl“In the bins. Produced in particular by Benny Bianco, the fiancé of Selena Gomez, the song had made a box. A star was born.
This May 2, 2025, we learn that the singer who sang the song first “I kissed a girl”in 1995, died. Her name was Jill Sobule, she was 66 years oldand she was at her house in Minneapolis, in Minnesota, when her house burned.
Emblematic folk-pop singer and lgbtq+ pioneerthe deceased has had 30 years of career, and another tube well known to the general public: “Supermodel”. He appears on the soundtrack of the cult film of the 90s, “Clueless“, With Alicia Silverstone.
Jill Sobule is dead
Questioned at the exit of the song from Katy Perry who carries the same title as her songbut who has nothing to do with it, Jill Sobule had not chewed his words.
In the columns of “The Rumpus”, she explained: “For those who do not know it or who are very young, I wrote a song in 1995 entitled ‘I Kissed a Girl’. When the version of Katy Perry is released, I received many questions about my opinion”.
And to add: “Some (and protective friends) were angry and wondered why she had taken my title and had done something of ‘raging girls’. Others, including my mother, were enthusiastic, thinking that I could get some money from it. Unfortunately, one cannot protect a title by copyright … Too bad “.
-Jill Sobule then assured: “As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist. I said to myself: ‘So much the better for her‘”.
However, a remark by Katy Perry brought him up to him. She had then dropped: “It annoyed me a little, however, when she said that the idea of the title had come to her dream”. And for good reason: “In reality, she wrote it with a team of professional writers and was signed by the same man who had signed me in 1995” she reported.
His controversy with Katy Perry
And admit: “I haven’t talked about it in an interview, because I don’t want to seem bitter or mean … because it’s not me“. Then, finally, Jull Sobule had dropped without filter his “jealousy”and its “anger“Against Katy Perry, in full.
To those who wanted to oppose them, she then gave the case. And insult: “Go give up, Katy Perry, kind of idiot, Perhaps ‘not well for gays’, titles thief, I did not hear much else, so not sure that you are talented, little slut. My God was good “.
