Lisa Loeb

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Aside from touring and remodeling her Los Angeles home, Ms. Loeb starred in her first feature film, House On Haunted Hill, released in 1999. She also recently recorded voiceovers for the new Spider-Man animated series, which will air on MTV. Ms. Loeb voices gal pal Mary Jane Watson.</div> <bR> <div> The Dallas native also found a new label, Artemis Records, leaving her home at Interscope Geffen A&M. Artemis released October's Hello Lisa, which includes songs from last year's Cake and Pie, released by A&M. Cake and Pie was scheduled to release in 2000, but it didn't come out until this year.</div> <bR> <div> "All that time I was being led along," Ms. Loeb said in a phone interview from Erie, Pa. Record executives would tell her "just record these songs, and it will come out," she said. "It had been four or five months, and that went on for awhile. I don't mind dealing with circumstances, but it's frustrating when people aren't honest about circumstances or about plans or they make promises that they don't even try to keep."</div> <bR> <div> Cake and Pie did release late last year in Japan, but because it was scheduled to hit U.S. stores soon after Sept. 11, Ms. Loeb considers the delay a blessing in disguise.</div> <bR> <div> "It turned out in the record business not to be a great time to sell records. The whole economy and everything was turned upside down," said the singer.</div> <bR> <div> There's always a silver lining to every cloud. Ms. Loeb's now entering a market where radio airwaves are open to the singer-songwriter style.</div> <bR> <div> "I feel like the music you hear on the radio, music that's successful now, the trend is more toward songwriters again. There's a lot of people like Norah Jones, John Mayer and Sheryl Crow – people that write, sing and play music," Ms. Loeb said.</div> <bR> <div> Hello Lisa features the Sanrio character Hello Kitty on the cover, referencing the welcome of the new phase of her recording career.</div> <bR> <div> "I've collected (Hello Kitty) since 1976 when I was a little kid. I've always thought she was really cute. She always seems to be thinking about something all the time," she said.</div> <bR> <div> The album's first single is Underdog, a song about falling in love but being too shy to do anything about it.</div> <bR> <div> "I connect that shyness with the concept of being the underdog, the one who's behind," Ms. Loeb said.</div> <bR> <div> Ms. Loeb recently finished a music video for the single, which features Hello Kitty coming to life in Ms. Loeb's kitchen. The singer said the video is starting to garner interest from video channels, and it soon will be available for view on her Web site, www.lisaloeb.com.</div> <bR> <div> Ms. Loeb is probably best known for her 1994 No. 1 single, Stay (I Missed You), from the Reality Bites soundtrack. The Grammy-nominated song, inspired by an argument Ms. Loeb had with her boyfriend at the time, hit the top when she still was an unsigned artist. She remains the first and only unsigned artist to have a No. 1 single.</div> <bR> <div> "It was an exciting time because it was a boost of self-confidence for the team of people I was working with at the time," she said. "It was great to have a No. 1 song when you're negotiating a record deal."</div> <bR> <div> Ms. Loeb signed with Geffen later that year and released her debut, Tails, in 1995.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>