Famed singer-songwriter's last new song posted before death attacked JD Vance: report
Jill Sobule (center) sings with Michelle Lewis (left) and Kay Hanley (right) (Photo: Screen capture via Facebook video)
May 09, 2025
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.
See the video below or at the link here.