My affinity towards Lisa Loeb's glasses
"There were plenty of girls with bangs and converse, and that is sort of my shit."
Corona Music Festejando, 11/13/06
I'm a sucker for girls in thick glasses. I'm not entirely sure when this all started. The above quote is the oldest recorded evidence of this preference, but this fetish must have begun sometime early in my adolescence.
Of course it's not the glasses that are a particular turn-on, it's what those glasses signify. I think these spectacles represent a free-spirited woman who is interested in art, knowledge, music, and all of those other pretentious endeavors I too enjoy. Perhaps my inability to impress girls with my sportsmanship, turned me away from the ones who wear too much makeup, and in the direction of the library.
I believe that the first woman with glasses, I ever was mad crushin' on, was Lisa Loeb. Stay (I Missed You) is my jam.
She inspired a generation of myopic youngsters to don thick-framed specs, which I can't thank her enough for.
That being said, it has taken her 15 years to officially jump on the bandwagon. Lisa Loeb is finally makin' dat dolla, buy launching a line of signature bifocals.
“People have been asking me about my eyewear style for years. Finally I decided – why not design my own line – so other people can see the world like I do... My eyewear generally has a cat-eyed look. Think sexy librarian, not retro grandma."
She's still got it.
