Supermodel

"Supermodel" is best known for its use in the 1995 movie Clueless, where it plays as Cher and Dionne give Tai a dramatic makeover so she can fit in with the cool kids at their high school in Beverly Hills, where being skinny enough and pretty enough to make other girls green with envy is a major life goal. The movie takes a lot of jabs at rich-kid culture, and the song does as well. Here's the hook: I'm young and I'm here and so beautiful I'm gonna be a supermodel The song lets us know that this vanity-driven makeover probably won't work out in the end.

The song was written specifically for the movie Clueless by a team of four writers that includes David Baerwald (formerly of the rock duo David & David) and David Kitay, who scored the film. Baerwald was far from being a trendy schoolgirl, so he turned to teen magazines for advice. "I remember thinking, 'Oh I don't know how teenage girls think,'" he told Flavorwire. "So I got an issue of Sassy magazine and I read the letters to the editor. I think even got lyrics from the letters page. Every demographic has its way of talking, and I wanted to capture a sense of the rhythm and the kinds of things girls were talking about. I thought Sassy was really cool!"

Sobule thought Clueless was going to be "some dumb teenage movie" but changed her tune after seeing the film. "I saw the movie and thought it was freaking great," she said. "It was feminist and I thought this was gonna be good for the girls. I was surprised and hated myself for having a bad attitude at first."