Kiss Me

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"Kiss Me" is a song recorded by Sixpence None the Richer. It reached number two on the U.S. Hot 100 and number four on the Canadian Singles Chart, making it the group's highest-charting single across the world.

The song was released as a single in 1999, propelling Sixpence into the US pop spotlight. The Grammy-nominated song became the top airplay song in over 10 countries including Canada, the UK, Japan (later, the band re-recorded "Kiss Me" with Japanese lyrics), Australia, and Israel and was also featured in a number of motion pictures (She's All That, Not Another Teen Movie, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) and TV Shows (Dawson's Creek, Saturday Night Live, MTV's The Real World, The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives and others). Some listeners interpret the song to be about a romance between two young lesbians, since the female singer suggests her lover wear "your flowered hat" to their rendezvous, but this was unlikely the intent of the songwriter, Matt Slocum, who wrote the song for his wife.

One version of the video for the song became VH1's number-one video for the entire month of May. In June 1999, "Kiss Me" was featured during the BBC's worldwide broadcast of Prince Edward's wedding ceremonies, at the request of Britain's royal family. "Kiss Me" was also used in 2001's Not Another Teen Movie, during a scene that parodied one from 1999's She's All That, in which the song was prominently featured. The song has also been covered by artists such as Avril Lavigne and The Cardigans.

The music video pays tribute to French filmmaker François Truffaut and his movie Jules et Jim, made in black and white and recreating many of the classic scenes. Alternate versions intercut scenes from She's All That or Dawson's Creek.