![]() Loeb and Hawke had mutual friends, and they lived across the street from each other in Manhattan. When she was living in New York, Loeb was friendly with Ethan Hawke, the young movie star who’d broken out in 1989’s Dead Poets Society. Lisa Loeb kept “Stay” for herself, and she noticed that people liked it when she played the song at her own shows. (Loeb met Hall after “Stay” has already been a hit, and she got to tell him that she wrote it for him. It was just chord changes, and it felt kind of R&B groovy-ish, for me, at the time.” Loeb never got the chance to play “Stay (I Missed You)” for Daryl Hall. So I came up with that guitar… It’s not a riff. Years later, Loeb told Genius, “I was trying to come up with something that was a little bit R&B, but good for voice. Loeb usually wrote strummy, folky songs, but she tried to tailor “Stay (I Missed You)” to Hall’s sensibilities. As she continued to work on the song, Loeb learned that Daryl Hall, a guy who’s been in this column a bunch of times, was looking for songs for a solo project. She’d just gotten into a bad fight with her producer and long-term boyfriend Juan Patiño. “ Lisa Loeb started to write “Stay (I Missed You)” when she was still at Berklee. I have chosen a few sections from the extensive feature ( American Songwriter have also written wonderfully about the song): They covered Stay (I Missed You) in March. Stereogum run a feature where they examine number one songs and give the background and their opinions on them. That happens today, but it was extremely rare in the 1990s. chart before being signed to any record label. One of the great things is that she was the first artist to top the U.S. It went to number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In one of the best years for music (1994), Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories’ classic stands out as one of the greatest of that year. I am going to end with critical reaction to Stay (I Missed You). ![]() ![]() It is a marvellous song that has one of the best choruses of any written I think. The song plays over the film's closing credits. It is said that Loeb's neighbour and friend, actor Ethan Hawke, heard the song and passed it to Ben Stiller for use in the film he was directing, Reality Bites. Originally, Stay (I Missed You) was originally conceived in 1990, though Loeb deciding to use the song herself. Released in May 1994 as the lead single from the original movie soundtrack, Reality Bites (1994), it was written and composed by Loeb. Of the 1990s, everyone can recognise Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories’ Stay (I Missed You). ![]()
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