In which a girl-rock shooting star seeks recognition as nothing more but nothing less than the imaginative, eccentric singer-songwriter she always was. Her perspective remains distinctly female even when she's impersonating men. But her prim, outspoken raunch is down to a few hints, none as memorable as "Go On Ahead"'s resigned analysis of a marriage strained by the birth of a child, or "Girls' Room"'s dream of high school, or "Uncle Alvarez"'s con man hanging from the family tree. This isn't an indie babe's album, or a blowjob queen's either. It's the work of an artist testing her capacity for fictional scenarios, of an upper-middle-class woman well past worrying why she fucks and runs--in public, at least. Its spare, halting, impractical, distinct, blatantly hooked sound honors the home demo over the bar raveup because it was invented by someone who shares an indigenous habitat with record geeks--the kind of bedroom that's longer on stereo equipment than ceiling mirrors. A
>>129030278>I had a kid>was the dad Billy Corgan?>I ain't telling
>>129030278i like liz phair. but face it, there were probably hundreds of indie guys making as interesting music as her at the time who got no recognition, while she got constant plaudits from critics like bob (yet, was unable to really become a big act despite all the free press).isn't that the sexism they would constantly complain about?
>>129030622same goes for bcnr, black midi, geese. its not so much about the music in itself but the pr marketing agency
>>129030622the 90s had an extreme glut of girl singer-songwriters and the industry really couldn't promote all of them properly
>>129030622How many were making topical story-songs like her?
>>129030278For some reason this is my least favorite of all her records. Idk I even like the Avril like slut album and the other later meme album more.
>>129032458it's mostly about her having a kid and that's just not a very sexy concept
>>129030622dumb zoomer, you are, like many of your ilk, failing to make a distinction between feminist and post-feminist. feminists who got lapped up and benefited massively would be paula cole and the indigo girls. music that is still popular with old libshit girls to this day.liz phair was post-feminist because she wrote songs that would enrage may women such as this track where she talks about how fun it is to be with a physically abusive guyhttps://youtu.be/eHrekB-Pp_ohere’s another track that was 100x more popular with young men than young women for obvious reasons https://youtu.be/U_eLq9ibnsY
>>129032500>liz phair was post-feminist because she wrote songs that would enrage may women such as this track where she talks about how fun it is to be with a physically abusive guyOh so _that's_ where Lana Del Rey got it from. Never mind, all makes sense now.
>>129032500p. sure PJ Harvey was also a lot more popular with dudes than chicks
>>129032510Nah she got it from Cat Power
>>129032500Who cares?
