Could the new Liz Phair be any worse

Fuck and run.

Anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHkj804LCl0

This is too good to be on the same thread as Bollywood.

I like to think of it as counteracting that nonsense.

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L-R
Surm, me, J0rdan

i'm the dude right in front of him

lol

michael stipe is hypnotic

plus, any other strong candidates for worst song of 2010? cuz that crabcore just ain't doing it for me no more.

jesus, Bollywood is repulsively bad. it's like she heard this cool new thing that's popular nowadays called Hippity Hoppity and thought, "hey, i could totally do that." it's like a pathetic imitation of MIA. as soon as i started listening to it i just wanted it to get away from my ears.

There's something really late-'90s about 'Bollywood', it's like Phair wanted to make a song mixing a load of contemporary genres together and turned to Beck's Midnite Vultures for inspiration.

She's drinking a Soy latte, She gets a double shot-ay, it goes all through her body

There's something really late-'90s about 'Bollywood', it's like Phair wanted to make a song mixing a load of contemporary genres together and turned to Beck's Midnite Vultures for inspiration.

― Gavin in Leeds, Wednesday, July 7, 2010 11:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this sounds like one of those G-rated parody raps they do on homestar runner.

only bad and not funny.

Every time I get to the spooky-voice " ... pulled out the CONNNNNTRACT ..." bit, all I can think of is one of the skit bits from "Dre Day."

http://imgur.com/wpTKi.png

And, honestly, "Bollywood" is way more fun to listen to than anything off of her last album; if all of Funstyle is just as bad as this, I can't wait to hear it. Still think that this song is just really effective trolling though.

this is... I mean...

waht

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Ah, at last!

I was not really expecting it to be flat-out hilarious

You were never supposed to hear these songs. These songs lost me my management, my record deal and a lot of nights of sleep.
Yes, I rapped one of them. Im as surprised as you are. But here is the thing you need to know about these songs and the ones coming next: These are all me. Love them, or hate them, but dont mistake them for anything other than an entirely personal, un-tethered-from-the-machine, free for all view of the world, refracted through my own crazy lens.

This is my journey. Ill keep sending you postcards.

-Liz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7_-BAtm3Ys

uh that's a lot worse than bollywood imo

I like this song actually.

the lol part is intentionally funny, so that makes it better than bollywood. This, on the other hand....

http://www.youtube.com/user/madeyes4u#p/u/5/megGQuCHfxI

sorry

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

This is my journey. Ill keep sending you postcards.

Returned for insufficient postage.

I guess she doesn't use Facebook or email.

Sex In the City 3: Bollywood

These songs lost me my management, my record deal

Anyone surprised?

Hey, it's the Moon Unit Zappa comeback album.

worst journey ever

"cocksucker blues" anyone? Metal Machine Music maybe? nah! she couldn't be that smart, amirite?

a song by song response to machine metal music is her next project

called Liz Can't Dance.

I think Liz should star and direct a Graffiti Bridge-like movie to tie all these songs together.

But her comeback is fucked now that "H.W.C." can't be her "Gett Off."

yes, that is why her comeback is fucked

cocksucker blues and metal machine music were both listenable, of course.

also artists usually drive themselves into the ditch when they're in the middle of the road, not when they've been stuck in their garage for five years

Holy crap, "Smoke" makes "Bollywood" sound like "Fuck and Run".

Sounds like a SNL parody of something from Beck's Odelay. Horrific.

I fucking love this song more and more every time I hear it and I need to hear this album ASAP

"Bollywood" totally winning me over, but I say this as somebody who feels "This Is Ponderous" is one of the great overlooked singles of my lifetime.

omg smoke hahahah, this is pretty great. When does this record come out again? Is the whole thing just a string of these goofy cut-up skits lampooning her own life as a washed-up onetime famed person? "I don't know John Mayer... I met him..."

xp:

Princess Superstar fronting 2NU.

― kkvgz, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 7:52 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

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I mean granted it's all horrendously dated-sounding but most of the jokes have been funny at least once...I'm in favor of this direction for her.

can't believe the same girl who wrote Shane could've written this new stuff. don't get it.

it's kind of shockingly sad

you gotta have fear in ur heart.

Funstyle is getting the deluxe reissue treatment.

Hmmm:

"I’m working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally. I had a lot of issues to work out," Phair says, laughing and slinking into her chair.

"But this record has been a very beautiful experience. I’m not going to screw up the production, either. I’m going to get this one right. I have my head screwed on right. I haven’t been this way in a long time."

She credits her performance in 2010 at the Matador's 21st anniversary concerts in Las Vegas as reinvigorating her approach to music. Phair shared a stage with the likes of Guided by Voices and Yo La Tengo, and even dueted with Ted Leo.

"Oh, my God, what a godsend that was," she says of the experience. "What an amazing homecoming. That ended a whole cycle of pain. It was a rebirth. I remembered who I once was, and they remembered not to hate me so much. They remembered that it’s not all that ferociously awful, what I have done."

As for her new record, Phair says she's targeting a more stripped-down, stark approach. She cites a few artists as inspiration. "I want the production to be kind of Jack White-ish, Ryan Adams-ish, that style of production," she says. "I want it to sound (messed)-up, but at a level of mastery that is respectable."

And for those still confused by the scattershot production of "Funstyle," which ranged from Bollywood to spoken-word goofiness, get over it. There's more where that came from, but Phair is now reticent to release it.

"I was going to do ‘Funstyle,’ ‘Funnerstyle’ and Funnererstyle.’ I’ve got all these songs, but I can’t handle people freaking out," she says. "There’s just all this bad material that really ought to be heard at some point."