"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
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
Couldn't finish :(
― Ciudad Warez (corey), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Is the rest of this album like this?
― micROFLiche in the form of tablets made of LOL (Stevie D), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe the rest of the album is a 35 minute drone
― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
haaaahahahahahahahahaha
― janice (surm), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
is that even a song
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
it's so much more
― 156, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
is this somehow supposed to be like a jab at MIA's manufactured backstory?
at any rate, it is caca. D-
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
^ the truth, in a whitechocolatespaceegg
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally someone makes the industry critique on the 4th consolidated album seem piquant and deep by comparison.
― BEAROTAURDED (jjjusten), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― BEAROTAURDED (jjjusten), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda has this laurie anderson call/response thing goin on
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
guys stop making me want to listen to a Liz Phair song
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
HOLY SHIT
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys I am linking this here. Dan, you have to listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ7tGcLcwwY
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I love how quickly this is becoming the new Showgirls
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
IT'S A TRAP, DON'T LISTEN
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahahahaha
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
That's an imitation? Sounds like it comes pretty naturally to me.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god it's bad
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"Bollywood" makes the Liz Phair s/t album sound like Purple Rain in contrast.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
It's awesome, as is the album. And her 2003 album that caused all the suicides
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Unfortunately quite a few indie males remain.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― buzza, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
only elements of this exist in the final product
Elements?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
notes and stuff
― Dr. Chuck Klosterman, LLC (jjjusten), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
"Look, a thing!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
The acrostic of the first seven lines of one of the songs spells out "Sir Duke"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"Stevie's use of the F# really pushed me through the creative process"
― Dr. Chuck Klosterman, LLC (jjjusten), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Perhaps she could have gone this route:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTsxpVcQtL4
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link