Famed singer-songwriter's last new song posted before death attacked JD Vance: report
Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule died tragically in a house fire last week, and Rolling Stone reported Friday that the last song she wrote attacked Vice President JD Vance.
The 66-year-old was staying with friends in Minnesota on her way to Denver to perform songs from her "autobiographical coming-of-age musical," NPR reported last week.
However, just a month before her death, "Sobule dashed off a cutting song about the VP that thrust her back into the national conversation," said Rolling Stone.
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She had arrived in Los Angeles to write with friend Michelle Lewis and her co-writer Kay Hanley. Sobule had one song ready to play for them: "JD Vance is a ..."
“She played it for us, and we were like, ‘Oh, my God,’” Hanley told Rolling Stone. “Michelle and I came up with background parts and we filmed it and I started a TikTok account for Sugar Tits and just threw it up.”
Sobule, known for authoring the bisexual anthem “I Kissed a Girl,” told Westword a few days before her death that the song was needling Vance was a "really dumb little thing with a lot of words that rhyme with ‘c---.’ It’s not radio-friendly. It’s not my best song, but it does get to the point."
"In a bittersweet irony, the song — possibly the last one she wrote — was becoming a viral hit when she died," Rolling Stone reported.
The two-minute video of the woman singing the song is now approaching one million views, with over 982,000 eyes on her Facebook video.