Music history is littered with acts who resented their biggest hit. Who play it reluctantly or not at all.

There are one-hit wonders who have a love-hate relationship with their solitary smash.

And then there’s Lisa Loeb. She not only started her career with a No. 1 single — the iconic folk ballad “Stay (I Missed You)” in 1994 — but she didn’t even have a record contract at the time, the first artist to ever do so.

Nowhere to go but down, right? Instead, Loeb took detours. Plenty of them. More than three decades later, she’s an endearingly familiar figure from the ’90s thanks to TV shows, movies, podcasts and continuous, joyful concerts.

Rather than bemoan her biggest hit, Loeb adores all the doors it opened and never takes it for granted.

“I’d worked so hard up to that point, made

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