Could the new Liz Phair be any worse

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Whoa - I had a dream last night where Liz Phair released a double-CD of amazing music for her "real" fans, right on the heels of "Liz Phair" - which she admitted was just a shallow ploy for airplay.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

According to some people on her mailing list, she does have about an LPs worth of material that's more "traditional Liz Phair" style that she says she may release via a web site.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Um, I'm seriously loving this Liz Phair/Happy Tragic Thing/whatever it's being called now CD, having just gotten it and listened for the first time. I guess it's a drag that she doesn't sound like she used to, but to me the great thing about Liz has always been how proudly pathetic she's seemed. That song on whitechocolatespaceegg where she calls her mom and tells her that this new guy is different and isn't gonna hurt her feelings and stuff, "Divorce Song," "Fuck and Run" -- she always owned up to a whole world of really sad feelings that I wish more songwriters would sing about. So this new one just seems like the application of that pathetic-ness to her sound, which for me totally works. It's like, not only can't she get it together in a relationship, she can't even sell 100,000 records with some serious industry might behind her. What sad, curious drama.

― Mikael Wood, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link

"the application of that pathetic-ness to her sound" is like the most backhanded compliment I've read all week.

gotta love indie logic.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying that Liz hooked up with the Matrix for any reason other than her honest desire to get that "I'm With You" acoustic-guitar timbre. But I also don't really care why she did it, because I think the result — at least on a one-to-one, record-to-listener basis — supersedes whatever her intent was, when considered within the context of her own body of work. In the same way that, say, Milli Vanilli would have gotten way better if they'd released an album of Sinatra duets or something.

― Mikael Wood, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link

indie logic is almost as good as grad school logic, but not quite. ;-)

― tractor & trailer, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

seven years pass...

"Bollywood" likely one of the worst songs I've ever heard by anyone.

http://lizphair.com/

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 July 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link

AHHHHHHHHHHH EVERY1 HAS TO LISTEN TO THIS

― 156, Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm finding the '7 years pass...' to be a piquant comment in and of itself.

― Matt M., Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link

I am one of the only people on earth who liked the single on her last record, but this is an atrocity.

― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link

wau

― the last air bud (crüt), Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link

holy crap

― sofatruck, Sunday, 4 July 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Get a taste of Liz Phair

― buzza, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDpUJjVfpOU&feature=player_embedded#!

― buzza, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link

This kinda reminds me of "Rico Suave" only not as good.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Only Liz Phair would go around and interview people about her own record.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link

o_O

― Grisly Addams (WmC), Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link

you guys ... the album cover ...

http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Funstyle_Cover_Image-400x400.jpg

― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9EbOXYenJY&feature=related

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link

haha she sounds like princess superstar on that new song.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Princess Superstar fronting 2NU.

― kkvgz, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 11:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Some of the other songs sound okay though.

― kkvgz, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 11:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Man, that Bollywood track sounds like MIA after a lobotomy and way too much ketamine. Only heard of this woman via ILX to be honest, don't think she made much of an impact in the UK. Pretty big Stateside huh?

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link

I think it's supposed to sound that way (see album cover).

― kkvgz, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link

it's embarrassing
even worse, it's embarrassing and boring

― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link

wow, rico suave comparison otm

― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link

Don Newkirk cameo?

― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link

I used to work with her dad

― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link

she has to be trolling right

― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link

I just heard "Oh, Bangladesh" -- it sounds like an attempt to return to Whitechocolatespaceegg but with a Somebody's Miracle cast-off.

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Just got around to listening to this...it defines fontrum.

― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Actually, after two listens, this is far from terrible.

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link

I haven't been able to convince myself to listen to the rest of the album yet, but I keep hearing charitable things being said. I'll do it, but I still anticipate the worst.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link

"congratulations Liz...you just recorded your first number one hit single!"

― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link

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

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

― janice (surm), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link

i rly don't know

― janice (surm), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link

SERIOUSLY!

― janice (surm), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link

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?

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost

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

― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

S E Oh snap! (free mp3s)

― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link

haha she sounds like princess superstar on that new song.

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

― oh shit a ◕‿‿◕ (sic), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― It's like 10,000 spoons from New York and New Jersey (Stevie D), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Bollywood sounds like Kevin Blechdom.

― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link

u guys

― janice (surm), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm listening to it again

― janice (surm), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link

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