Could the new Liz Phair be any worse

forgot about this

Somebody's Miracle was originally modeled after another canonical album, Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder, though only elements of this exist in the final product. At an estimated 84,000 copies, Somebody's Miracle remains Phair's lowest selling LP to date.

she sucks at sell-out

only elements of this exist in the final product

Elements?

notes and stuff

"Look, a thing!"

The acrostic of the first seven lines of one of the songs spells out "Sir Duke"

"Stevie's use of the F# really pushed me through the creative process"

Perhaps she could have gone this route:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTsxpVcQtL4

"I loved how his clavinet reminded me of the sound of my larynx."

She could have gone this route:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03OElvyEoNs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03OElvyEoNs

can somebody force dan to listen to this, because i need to experience his reaction

He might die.

to Celine doing "I Wish"?

Where's Linda Ronstadt doing "You Haven't Done Nothin'"?

Celine is actually covering Skee-Lo.

the route she probably actually tried:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFK6H_CcuX8

can somebody force dan to listen to this, because i need to experience his reaction

^^^^ PLEASE ^^^^

Did anyone read M@ura's ramble about this? Gave up after the first page (much like I gave up about a minute into "Bollywood")

liz phair song is remarkably bad (just listened to the whole thing after bailing on the comedy voices a couple days ago). i get that it's supposed to be silly & self-mocking, but it's awful however you take it. like laurie anderson with all the wit removed, and so completely lost in time. seems to come from some bad, alternate 1990, like it's supposed to slot in next to soho or something. updated with c2K missy beats? can't make sense of it & can't believe it's an actual album track.

people

stop comparing this to laurie anderson

wtf

Seriously, my 2NU comparison upthread is way more on the money.

well, i was just picking up on what was said before... but it's hard to hear this particular voice pitch shifted in this particular way without immediately snapping to "sharkey's night". and bringing up LA is an attempt to construct a conceptual frame in which the song might make sense - even though it still doesn't. but yeah, it's a tenuous comparison at best.

also, liz's attempt to comment on herself as an object presented for consumption smacks of conceptual art, or of certain ideas about such art, which (along with the sonic palette) links easily/lazily back to LA

it sounds more to me like she's fucking around. which i don't object to in principle, tho obv there are plenty more inspired examples. anyway i'm about to pay 6 bucks for the album out of mere curiosity, and that's more money than i've spent on a liz phair album in a long time.

It certainly won't be the worst album to released on-line this year.

My hate isn't growing.

omg i would not pay for an album with that song on it if my life depended on it

like obviously she is v confused, and some kind of drug, or something, or coming off a year or 2 on drugs during which she did nothing but fry her brain

am about to watch this celine tho

<3 u ramz

lol

hahaha I am never listening to this

just the way she says "portfolio" is grounds for dismissal
it's hard to recover from that when it's the first line of the song

I am sitting here laughing/crying over the Celine video.

I wish she had covered Skee-Lo.

My peen-ius got limp.

dude, i would kill to go to celine's vegas show!

So would I!

i would only kill to go to celine's vegas show if it was with ramzi

So would I!!!!

I'm afraid we'd be the only men present.

oh no you wouldn't, my wife went to one and you would have company aplenty

You didn't go with her? You bastard!

i would only kill to go to celine's vegas show if it was with ramzi

― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 8, 2010 3:38 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

So would I!!!!

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSTXn4H5jY (Stevie D), Thursday, July 8, 2010 3:42 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

we would have such a time!! :D

lol stevie that's what you get when you italicize your sn

There should seriously be a Celine/Vegas ilx meet up.

As soon as the concert's over we should go here.

Have to wait until March but...

http://www.celinedion.com/celinedion/english/whatsgoinon_vegas.html

You sick bastard, Alfred. You mean here.

I'll only go if Dan sings "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" in the atrium.

Near, far, etc.

Victor Davis Hanson would start crying when "My Heart Will Go On" starts up.

Near, far, etc

http://www.sfu.ca/classics/history/VDH.jpg