Could the new Liz Phair be any worse

omgomg i don't even know what to say about BOLLYWOOD !

i literally just started cracking up in the middle while my boyfriend is asleep next to me

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i rly don't know

Surm you should hire yourself out as advice-giver to your heroes and prevent them from follies.

SERIOUSLY!

Right now, for instance, I've been in front of a computer for almost fourteen hours. Help!

You know what though, I bet when Elvis was recording Blue Suede Shoes everybody on the internet was like "what a load of absolute crap, this is embarrassing". Liz Phair may be onto something way bigger than any of us can comprehend

it's terrible but ... i kind of love it. the 10-year past-due bhangra beat, the rapping, the complaining-about-record-labels, it's all kind of adorable. and obviously like she doesn't really give a shit if anyone listens to her or buys the record, right?

and the second time through it just cracks me up. i think i'm on liz's side here.

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makes sense, she obviously doesn't care what anyone thinks about her website either

that's right liz phair, i dissed your website, ICE COLD

S E Oh snap! (free mp3s)

haha she sounds like princess superstar on that new song.

otm, especially re the whole meta-music-biz themes

First time listening; I am laughing as well. I kind of love this.

Bollywood sounds like Kevin Blechdom.

u guys

i'm listening to it again

Couldn't finish :(

Is the rest of this album like this?

maybe the rest of the album is a 35 minute drone

haaaahahahahahahahahaha

is that even a song

it's so much more

is this somehow supposed to be like a jab at MIA's manufactured backstory?

at any rate, it is caca. D-

^ the truth, in a whitechocolatespaceegg

Finally someone makes the industry critique on the 4th consolidated album seem piquant and deep by comparison.

Note: I am amazed by this as a thing, but I also spent an hour tonight trying to convince a dude to watch "I accidentally domed your son" so

kinda has this laurie anderson call/response thing goin on

guys stop making me want to listen to a Liz Phair song

HOLY SHIT

You guys I am linking this here. Dan, you have to listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ7tGcLcwwY

I love how quickly this is becoming the new Showgirls

IT'S A TRAP, DON'T LISTEN

hahahahahahaha

that is so bad

Listening to the thing all morning, I'm still left holding a handful of air. The strummy guitar songs are tuneful and amiable enough. The jokey numbers, though, confuse me – is Phair so deluded about the size of her record sales that she thinks she can play with her public image? But I like her imitation of an airhead.

That's an imitation? Sounds like it comes pretty naturally to me.

Matt LeMay revisits his 0.0 review of the 2003 album: http://www.mbvmusic.com/2010/07/07/liz-phairs-2003-self-titled-album-is-still-terrible/26971#more-26971

After my Pitchfork review ran, I received a volley of e-mails pointing me to some interviews Phair gave around the time of Liz Phair’s release. In these interviews, Phair explained that she made a “commercial” record in an effort to be a responsible grown-up, to make a financially successful record, and to support her family. By not liking the record, I was implicitly putting down women of a certain age, women with children, women in general, women in music, and/or women of a certain age in music. If I were Liz Phair’s friend and not a music critic, you could accuse me of not supporting her life choices. But, for better or worse, Liz Phair is an artist. And haphazardly contorting your art to better suit a potentially lucrative fad — whether it’s “teen pop” or “glo-fi” — is not something that we, as critics, should have to make excuses for.

It isn’t fair to hate on Liz Phair for not being an indie rock record. But it is fair to call out Liz Phair for being a limp, cynical and half-assed pop record.

oh god it's bad

"Bollywood" makes the Liz Phair s/t album sound like Purple Rain in contrast.

It's awesome, as is the album. And her 2003 album that caused all the suicides

Unfortunately quite a few indie males remain.

I never hated the 2003 album, fwiw. But I've never been a big fan of hers anyway, so it just seemed like a natural progression to me (OH HAI I'M LIZ AND I HOP ON BANDWAGONS). Funstyle is probably the first time in her career where I haven't been able to figure out what she's aiming for.

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."