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History
In an interview, Bazilian said, "I wrote ['One of Us'] one night — the quickest song I ever wrote — to impress a girl. Which worked, because we're married and have two kids. But we were in the middle of writing Joan's album, which was a group effort with Rick Chertoff and Joan and Rob and me, and I did a demo of 'One of Us,' this wacky little demo which I ended up putting as a hidden track on the CD of my first solo record, and I played [it] for them. And it really hadn't even occurred to me that it was something that Joan might do, but Rick, in his wisdom, asked Joan if she thought she could sing it. And I think it was better that he asked it that way rather than 'Do you want to sing it?' Because the answer to that might not have been yes. But she definitely said she could sing it, and we did a little live demo of a guitar and her singing it.

Music video
Directed by Mark Seliger and Fred Woodward, the video was mainly shot on Coney Island, with various attractions like rollercoasters, Ferris wheels, and the New York Aquarium shown, interchanged with the vintage-looking shots in sepia and Joan singing in front of the camera.
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Personal life of Joan Osborne
Raised a Roman Catholic, Osborne distanced herself from that institution after childhood, particularly influenced by telling her parents that she wished to become a priest only to learn that tradition forbade it.

Προσωπική ζωή της Joan Osborne
Μεγαλώνοντας σε μια Ρωμαιοκαθολική οικογένεια απομακρύνθηκε από τους θεσμους της θρησκείας όταν μπήκε στην εφηβεία της, και επηρεάστηκε αρνητικά τόσο πολύ που δήλωσε στους γονείς της ότι όταν μεγαλώσει θα 'θελε να γίνει γυναίκα ιερέας μόνο και μόνο για να μάθει ποια ήταν αυτά που απαγορεύει η παράδοση της εκκλησίας.