And why do you go there every Easter Sunday? Liz Phair has Horror Stories The fierce alt-rocker still has a lot to say, but this time she's doing it in book form. BLVR: I guess that’s one reason I like the song “Shane.” I like that it’s both bedroom-sounding but also addresses broader issues, like the Gulf War. Liz: Oh … It’s funny, because I look back at that time as such a fun time, so social. Liz Phair Interview. BLVR: With that song’s grandness, it’s also the topic. This is the sound of the ice block! “I’ll drive you back.” It was off the cuff, and that’s why it works. Do you know that writer? Do you hear this? I’m wondering, do you every consciously try to paint on a bigger canvas? I think that’s a very late–twentieth-century thing. It had a lot of impact, plus it was some of the more fun times I’ve ever had. 17 Feb 2015 | 02:11 Liz Phair, the rocker who first gained acclaim with her 1993 album Exile In Guyville has recently come under attack as a sell-out. Birner: And you had a kid to worry about? Liz Phair, the rocker who first gained acclaim with her 1993 album Exile In Guyville has recently come under attack as a sell-out. I can’t believe I have a black eye. Phair: Well, when you get older you'll find you need about a ten year gap between you and your rivals to not feel threatened by them. I was such a grifter. She’s not posing, she’s not asking your permission; she is just totally, un-self-consciously doing her thing, come what may. BLVR: How was Legoland? Liz Phair’s indelible, essential debut album has been reissued with three crucial bedroom tapes that further define the innovative and unselfconscious songwriting from early in her career. Phair released "Why Can't I?" Maybe I should sign him up for soccer. Liz Phair, whose widely influential 1990s albums have been enjoying a revival in recent years, has signed a new deal with the relaunched Chrysalis Records and will release her first album in a deca… — Liz Phair (@PhizLair) September 6, 2019 The singer opened up about a number of topics in the interview, including the sexual harassment she experienced in the music industry. “I THINK THAT WHEN PEOPLE HEAR BIG PRODUCTION THEY THINK, ‘SHE’S FALLEN VICTIM TO CONCERNS OF COMMERCE.’”, Gift that special someone a year of magazines for $39 →, Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. I have to go to a movie premiere tomorrow. I don’t know what you call it—social whoring maybe. LP:With his head, actually. She’s totally not interested in the roles that even people who have written great novels, who are women, still kind of play into. After the night is over and he drives her home, she admits that secretly she’s timid, but she’s not regretful. Composition I try not to chip away at the same old block, but it’s true and that’s why I’m doing what I’m doing. I just read Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative. May 4, 2018 Getty Images. It’s just such a moving, brilliant song. Liz Phair: A Rock & Roll Star Is Born ... It’s a magazine, and Phair fires off a quick phone interview. LP: That’s a co-write with my friend Lauren Christy, and Scott [Spock] does the production on that.There’s a team of three people [the team is called the Matrix] and she and I came up with song structure, more or less, and melody, and kind of hammered out the words.That was really exciting because she’s a songwriter herself, she’s my age. Her new album, Liz Phair, will be released this June; it’s her first album in five years.In her candor and her anger and her unmistakable style—no one’s voice sounds like hers—Liz Phair is one of the best songwriters we have. Rahman for PEOPLE LIKE US, Taking on the Male Rock Establishment, Her New Album and More by Christina Radish June 26, 2012 In an interview with Vice, Phair explained: "My hope was that someone would hear the song in the gym and buy the record and then start buying my albums and sort of have an awakening". You see this a lot in writers like Richard Ford, writers who give their male protagonists divorces or alcohol problems in their past. Rahman as well as the original song "Dotted Line" co-written by A.R. 20 Snaps. Like, before, I had to vent about my black eye. Who knew that all Liz Phair ever wanted was to be a pop star? BLVR: There are characters in Oscar Wilde who do that, too. It’s so intense that you come up after this battle in the morning, just at the crack of dawn, where you’re sort of gathering the losses and trying to figure out what really happened and how you feel about that. But still and nevertheless: who else tells stories the way she does? I also recorded my first songs in San Francisco. One of my friends from college had this theory that all you needed to be in this world was fabulous and you could just skate through it as an artist, that there was supposed to be the youngest and most fabulous in any circle and as you got older you had to find an older circle. Liz Phair is spending most of 2008 living in the past. in hopes that she would expand her audience and attract more listeners to its parent record, Liz Phair (2003). May 4, 2018 Getty Images. Phair: Earlier it hurt because it seemed nobody liked anything else I did, but I'm so far from that now. It’s so moving if you think of it as real. I think it’s a brilliant song. New York Press' Tom Birner asked her about this recent change in style, her follow-up CD Somebody's Miracle-and much else-as Phair gets set for a gig here in town. He told me to ice the heck out of it. It’s obviously something that needs to be addressed.The worst part is you never become the wealthy landowner or anything.You’re never anything more than that.You’re a charming grift. Lycéenne à la New Trier High School, elle intègre ensuite l'Oberlin College, dans l'Ohio, en vue d'étudier l'histoire de l'art. Stream songs including "Leap of Innocence", "Wind and the Mountain" and more. Elizabeth Clark Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter.. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Phair was adopted at birth and raised primarily in the Chicago area. It took a pandemic and Zoom to bring Alanis Morissette and Liz Phair together for an interview, but once they saw one another on-screen, little else was needed for … BLVR: In MFA programs, short stories have to be within eleven and twenty pages. People my age who don't do that are basically immature, selfish shits. [The orientation of my new album] Somebody's Miracle is much more intentional. It’s a problem. ], LP: Yup. It was... moonlighting in the pop world. My feelings have shifted. I mean, I kept doing interviews and trying to help people through it therapy-wise who were upset or felt a betrayal — I do get it. I had to fight hard, and I’m not super happy with where I am romantically in my life because I feel like I fucked up. LP:Well, that’s the whole thing, women’s lives and experiences aren’t valued, except by other women. How did you write that? Much criticized for working with The Matrix, the record engineers who write and produce music for teen pop singer Avril Lavigne, Phair has said that her decision to go more commercial on her self-titled album Liz Phair was partly motivated by her financial concerns as a single mother. And these waves had teeth. How is that? Phair herself sings in the first song on Exile in Guyville: “And I kept standing 6’1” / Instead of 5’2” /And l loved my life / And I hated you.” Phair seems to relish that one can readily alter appearances; it’s as simple, she implies, as changing one’s outlooks and affinities. She's composing music for the potentially controversial CBS show "Swingtown", about sex, marriage, and key parties in the 1970s. In battle we follow it.” They’re actually bringing you into it. Birner: Then twenty-four. Okay, so I had a bad night with a guy. LP: Shall we take a look? But Guyville, when I listen to it, is relatively sad. My son gave me a giant black eye. Liz: Oh … Phair released "Why Can't I?" Rahman and Liz Phair, which plays over the film's end credits. Liz Phair Interview, 1994. Her new album, Liz Phair, will be released this June; it’s her first album in five years. LP: I’d be scared out of my mind, but I’d probably do it. I feel like I have made big mistakes and now I’m sort of at the end of my thirties, not married… I want to be with someone—I have a really good sense of who I am and what hurts me. It looks like that, because the swollen eyebrow has pushed the other one up about half an inch. ... Liz Phair. I’m just a charming sponge. It is sort of a job. So here are the transcripts: Ken: Ok, before I really get into this, may I ask what version of the iPhone you have? You could do it differently, but I think that’s just a rule of thumb to help people who may not understand how to write the quickest way to touch somebody.We all look to writing or creative arts to dignify our own character as we come home at the end of the day and feel like a shallow worker bee.We look to writing to allow us to open up and feel what we’re really feeling. In recent interviews, Phair has been upfront about her hopes of mainstream success, and claims full awareness that Liz Phair is likely to alienate many of her original fans. Liz Phair returns to the scene with not just her first new music in nearly a decade, ... is an interview series in which WFPK’s Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of musicians. A Career-Spanning Conversation With Liz Phair XPN. It’s about George Sand and Franz Liszt and their circle and the wealthy landowners would invite them—is the right word grift? I have my good points and my bad points and that’s what these are. knowing the way I am, singing a song that's being broadcast in my gym, that's subversive. But it’s no less authentic in the way that we did it, because we did it the same way I do it. There you go. Liz Phair (The Interview) Tweet. LP: I do it all the time—like when I went down to South by Southwest. In an interview with Vice, Phair explained: "My hope was that someone would hear the song in the gym and buy the record and then start buying my albums and sort of have an awakening". Rock and roll isn't a salary. Liz Phair est née à New Haven dans le Connecticut, mais a grandi dans une banlieue de Chicago auprès de parents adoptifs d'un milieu social favorisé. Birner: You tend to avoid two requisite emotions of '90s alternative music-theatrical rage and sadness. I think that when people hear big production they think,“She’s fallen victim to concerns of commerce.”What I hear when I hear the record is,“Do you remember that day, how amazing was that?” I picked moments. An extensive booklet containing an oral history by Jason Cohen including interviews with Liz Phair, Chris Brokaw, Brad Wood, John Henderson and more, an essay by Liz Phair, and an essay by journalist Ann Powers. Next I m very connected to my internal, deepest subconscious, says Phair. For the most part, it was a deeply misunderstood move. Things like “Love/Hate,” you’d think that was a song where I tried to make a statement, but it really wasn’t. I had a lot of fun doing it and I love that song. It’s like an art piece: your evening, or your entire weekend. Phair: (laughs) I just did! It’s got some nods and winks and self-conscious moments here and there, but by and large that cover is pretty much what’s going on with me.The musical moments on this new record meant a lot to me while we were recording them. It was so cute to see him there. “What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming.” It was beautiful. [Goes to mirror] It looks like I have really heavy fuscia black eye shadow on. BLVR: And everyone will think you’ve been tossed around. LP: Absolutely. on October 28, 2010, 8:52am. It was a song-by-song response to this guy in my neighborhood who was much like Mick in his attitude. [The Bondwoman’s Narrative, written by an ex-slave, was unearthed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and is the only known novel by a female African-American slave.] Following the halfhearted reception to Whip-Smart-- good enough to retain her critical stature, not good enough to enhance it -- Liz Phair slowly retreated from view, marrying and having a child. Birner: You mean the other songs would lose their validity? Besides, I could make a good indie record but it would be completely contrived, because I don't live in that world anymore. I don’t fight them or tell them they’re stupid, but if I listen to the record myself, I can just relax and be like, “They don’t get it.” ’Cause it really feels like me. It would look really ugly, but at least people would—actually, I don’t know what they’d think. Within the first two pages of a short story you have to dignify a character, which is basically giving them some flaw that allows the reader to like them. Nick: Where are my jewels? It kind of awes me because I don’t think anything I ever write has that kind of intensity to it. [The sound of a small voice away from the phone. That’s why Jennifer Egan’s novels excite me so much. It’s really inspiring. It’s gross because you can see the pocket of blood right above the lash-line. And that’s that moment. Her songs unfold like short fiction, full of detail and nuance—as opposed to the vague and repetitive poetics we accept as songwriting—and are perhaps even more believable because they’re sung in her trademark monotone. Never Said" was originally written under the title "Clean" for Phair's GIRLSGIRLSGIRLS bootleg cassette. And my new album, in my mind, is kind of a statement to say you can be fucked up and still enjoy living.You can have an awareness of what you’ve gained, what you’ve lost. Phair: Financially. Liz Phair’s debut album, Exile in Guyville, was released in 1993, and was followed by Whip-Smart in 1994 and whitechocolatespaceegg in 1998. But he’s not a Hollywood dermatologist, so he doesn’t really care. It’s like that movie Impromptu. Phair: I try to stay free of confines. I think you could write a successful short story without dignifying the character.You could have it unwind at the end. Instead, she's interviewing the "Jagged Little Pill" star for The Times. LP: … I’m sorry—I’m distracted because I have a big black eye. So, really, it's just a teenage girl not being able to talk to the guy she wants to talk to. BLVR: There are some similarities between the two of you, you and Egan. I feel like when I listen to it—cause you do these interviews and sometimes people like [the album] and sometimes they don’t and they say things to you and I always try to hear what they’re saying and address it. Is that flag still there, and all that it means? People thought my making pop songs would change other material. Liz Phair: Intimacy—real honest intimacy—is one of the most radical things you can do right now. LP: We fucked around. I’ve never had a black eye before. Liz Phair was supposed to be on tour with Alanis Morissette right now. Her song “Love is Nothing” on whitechocolatespaceegg contains a scene in which a man is telling a woman about all the friends they have in common, and by the time he figures it out, she finds herself yawning. That means smiling, flattery, showing up, trying hard, whatever it is that makes things go smoothly. I always enjoy trying to get away with stuff. LP: I don’t think it impacted me nearly as much as the guy I was with after my husband. It’s Nick, Phair’s six-year-old son.] The lyrics to “Chopsticks,” the first song on Whip-Smart, tells the story of a woman meeting a man at a party, going home with him, and having sex while watching TV. Almost as much has been made of Liz Phair’s appearance as has been made of her candid lyrics. Phair: I was kind of flattered, but it got old. It was a chilling and fascinating novel. LP: I’m worried about writing these days. Next I m very connected to my internal, deepest subconscious, says Phair. [Phair and her son Nick had recently returned from Legoland—the one in Southern California.]. Toward the end of 1996, she began to work on her third album, but it took her nearly a year and a half to compete it, due to a variety of reasons. He introduced me, and the sense I got was that they kind of thought I'd done something bad, and forgave me for it. Guyville doesn't threaten me? Kind of like Swingers, only less pathetic. It’s a hobby. Liz dissects Exile in Guyville and how the album cover was developed. So on "6'1," 'You fall in bed too easily?' I had a long relationship after that and I worked closely with him.That was by far more up and down and disastrous in the end than my marriage was. With his fist or elbow? For instance, your protagonists aren’t perfect, but they’re likable. Like any adult with a child-you better have a fucking income and a plan. How do you decide how big your canvas will be? Or the Best Song About It, At Least. Interview 'People Like Us' Songwriter Liz Phair by Scott McConnell Published June 27, 2012. BLVR: Would you ever do a rendition of it? Even though it’s a big statement it’s not neatly laid out for you. It’s gross. Interview: Liz Phair. I also read Jennifer Egan’s Look at Me. Now everyone’s doing what they set out to do. Share this: ... view all. The booklet in the LP set also contains never before … It wasn’t the right two people, but we are reasonable and we parent together.Whereas the relationship I had after my marriage,I don’t know what that was, but it was definitely kind of damaging to my self esteem. LP: Well, you usually don’t create a negative protagonist. Thousands of articles, interviews and reviews from the world's best music writers and critics, from the late 1950s to the present day. by Karina Halle. BLVR: Do you think it’s the emotional honesty behind it? Liz Phair Wrote the Book on Fucking. And you can't be casual or jocular with them; everything I said came out wrong, so I just shut my mouth. LP: Your jewels, I don’t know baby. It’s like hunting: it’s a sport. World Cafe Looks Back: '90s Alternative I’m pissed off. By Estelle Tang. It’s about war; it’s truly, authentically about people who are in the midst of a very scary situation. Phair: No, that the songs I wrote myself would be rendered stupid and pop-driven. It was very feminine in its interests and the social goings-on in the house: dressing,catty social commentary,and classes.It was very recognizably a women’s novel, and at the same time, how many things from that era do you have that record what really went on and what it was really like? But I have the cynicism of a 50 year-old. Then overnight the giant egg-size lump sank into the upper eyelid, so now my upper eyelid is swollen and black. [To interviewer] Sorry. Is that a result of your upbringing? If there’s one thing we know about Liz Phair, it’s that she does as she pleases. May 15, 2020 • We met up with Liz Phair during a Sense Of Place trip to Los Angeles in early March. In theaters Friday, June 29 is the drama People Like Us, featuring original music by A.R. In "Rocks Off," I'm the girl who's looking at him on the street. February 27, 2012 • Get nostalgic with World Cafe's roundup of archival interviews, featuring '90s modern-rock stars Liz Phair, Belly, Matthew Sweet and more. on October 28, 2010, 8:52am. Liz Phair, whose widely influential 1990s albums have been enjoying a revival in recent years, has signed a new deal with the relaunched Chrysalis Records and will release her first album in a deca… In a new interview, Liz Phair looks back on her first four albums, the legacy of Exile in Guyville, and being an inspiration to today's female songwriters. Birner: Have you ever met the Stones and talked to them about Exile In Guyville? [Somebody's Miracle producer] John Shanks works at a studio in Hollywood where the Stones were debuting their new CD. IN A CONVERSATION with Liz Phair, there are few pauses.Nor is there any of the careful weighing of words that afflicts so many interview subjects. Riot grrrl legend Allison Wolfe, of the band Bratmobile, interviews indie icon Liz Phair about mansplainers, media manipulation, and the magic of making music. The indie legend on the history of "Fuck and Run." Toward the end of 1996, she began to work on her third album, but it took her nearly a year and a half to compete it, due to a variety of reasons. And then the melody goes soaring up to a point you can barely even reach and I appreciate that because I think the song itself should be a struggle to make you realize what you’re singing about. Her new album, Liz Phair, will be released this June; it’s her first album in five years. Whatever it is. And it looks like—you know the Faye Dunaway too-high eyebrow thing? I didn't feel it was representative of my scope, emotionally. Article content. She immediately invited me. When Liz Phair released the song "Bollywood" from her new album, Funstyle, on her website in July, it caused a few Twitter waves. LP: That happened before I was reading Wilde, oddly enough. Like, 'sure-why not try pop?'. In a new interview, Liz Phair looks back on her first four albums, the legacy of Exile in Guyville, and being an inspiration to today's female songwriters. I'm very happy about having done Guyville and I'm very happy it's such an acclaimed record. Share this ... view all. He was playing with Lego pieces and… something happened. [Phair’s call waiting goes off; she takes the call and returns. It’s just a dream, and it’s embodied in a piece of cloth. In my thirties now, it’s just who I am. "I started counting how many (female artists) were in this book called Modern Art and it was something as horrifying as sixteen women before 1960 were included. A Conversation with Singer Liz Phair The gutsy indie rocker turned glamorous pop queen discusses the pros and cons of adoption, feminism, and having a little more meat on … [Sound of the ice block]. It just didn't feel like me. If Liz Phair had been cold, detached, clearly bored, or chomping at the bit to move on to her next interview, I might have had to commit ritual seppuku on the spot.. I really feel like she’s an example of someone who doesn’t give a crap about the fact that she’s just a woman writer. waves. Instead, she's interviewing the "Jagged Little Pill" star for The Times. Guyville is so subversive, intentionally or unintentionally?what exactly was it a response to? I bought everyone’s backlash about Liz Phair. Of course it’s radio friendly because that’s the main point. Cut into the middle of the movie after the big-ass battle. But Liz Phair was really a side job. People were pretty sure Liz Phair had rabies, or something. It’s so funny. Think about it: [Sings] “Oh say can you see, by the…” They probably lost half of the men they knew yesterday in that battle. You have to make yourself into a working entity, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I picked all the songs that made me thrill from the last five years of recording.The moments where I was like, “God that was great, that song came to life right then, I’m going to take that version.”This is a long, roundabout way of saying I think that it’s a reaction to being married, trying to fit into roles I don’t fit into, living alone, but also feeling like I need to be this way. It’s like an endangered species to connect to your feelings and actually be present. “We should get out of here,” she says, eyeing the phone. Is it blue or is it black? Phair: Maybe it was that English wit-we lived there for a while, so Anglophonic irony was pervasive in my home life. In June of 1993, bedroom-tape prodigy turned indie-music darling Liz Phair unleashed her answer album to cock-rock culture, Exile in Guyville, upon an unsuspecting college radio scene. And yet, Phair is never judgmental of her protagonists’ love interests or friends; nor do the protagonists of her songs, who are mostly young and female, judge themselves. 'What's the matter with the boy?/He don't come around no more?' I mean, I kept doing interviews and trying to help people through it therapy-wise who were upset or felt a betrayal — I do get it. Liz Phair Talks Collaborating with A.R. Phair: No, it was much less conscious than people think. Liz Phair Interview Austin Convention Center, Thursday, March 13. In a recent interview with The Independent, Phair summed it up as, “It was like seeing the girl next door go nuclear.” “Guyville” made Phair a star and an indie darling. It’s such a feeling of accomplishment. In 1993, Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” was the album of choice for a certain cohort of angsty young women. Liz Phair: A Rock & Roll Star Is Born ... It’s a magazine, and Phair fires off a quick phone interview. I think you dignify all the personas and emotions you include in your songs, and I wonder if you think that it’s because you’re being just brutally honest, or because you’re actually trying to render the persona wounded in some way, and thus more empathetic. Jennifer Egan’s character was hilarious because she did the wrong things, thought the wrong things, and was manipulative. And she's no stranger to controversy: Her seminal album Exile in Guyville was heralded as both groundbreaking and depraved. Photo: Xavi Torrent In another episode from the book, you describe how an acquaintance from your past … LP: I think the National Anthem is a really genius song. The cover of Phair’s new album features a photo of her seated on a chair, with her hair entirely covering her face. I spend a lot of my day—I wonder if everyone does this, too—trying to be as fluid as possible in all situations. Phair: I answered Mick. Liz Phair was studying art at Oberlin College in Ohio when she began leafing through one of her text books. Liz Phair was supposed to be on tour with Alanis Morissette right now. An Interview with Liz Phair Vendela Vida. Same age, same sort of take on life, and there we are in a bedroom with our notebooks out, kind of fighting over lines and trying to help each other, trying to push the song along. LP: I think for me, I’m not good at—I do try to paint on big canvases. I feel hugely lucky. Like my friend Nina, who’s a Ph.D., submitted a manuscript to Medievalist. Liz Phair’s debut album, Exile in Guyville, was released in 1993, and was followed by Whip-Smart in 1994 and whitechocolatespaceegg in 1998. It’s like watching someone who’s still really thrilled about their job go to a convention. She’s as literate and sensual as Lucinda Williams and has the kind of beautifully controlled rage that Aimee Mann has perfected, yet Phair hasn’t gotten much credit lately. It’s so radical if you think about it. I bought everyone’s backlash about Liz Phair. It’s a really different experience, and produces a different kind of song. She’s pretty strong willed herself, so it was a very exciting experience making a song with someone who is a peer. If I’m not close to it, I can’t do songs with a great scope.That’s one of the reasons we worked with other songwriters on this record, to try and find something that had a broader scope. So she just talks to a song. My natural exuberance, my obnoxiousness, my loud, Midwestern rock sensibility was not coming across in the Michael Penn work. Birner: So you were doing that consciously to shock people? Liz Phair, the rocker who first gained acclaim with her 1993 album Exile In Guyville has recently come under attack as a sell-out. View Liz Phair interviews, articles and reviews from Rock's Backpages: The ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism. It was something I chased down-the best of all my little adventures in recording land. “We should get out of here,” she says, eyeing the phone. This is her first interview since the release of the album. BLVR: Do you have a particular example, or are you just finding a general trend? BLVR: How does having split with your ex, with whom you worked closely and shared a life, impact your music, your new album, your life…? Liz Phair sat down for a chat to discuss her new album Funstyle as well as other things. They were "how could Liz Phair rap and release this song?" BLVR: Did you put a steak on it or anything? In 'Horror Stories,' Liz Phair Writes Of 'The Haunting Melodies' In Her Head. It’s just my little vent-thing, and for me, songwriting is the way to come home at the end of the day and say what I can’t say normally. And there was literally no more money-I was already over budget, and because The Matrix got these radio songs, all of a sudden the label's like, 'put whatever you want on,' for which I'm eternally grateful. I don't ever take on Mick's role-I'm either talking to Mick, about Mick, or examining what he's talking about. in hopes that she would expand her audience and attract more listeners to its parent record, Liz Phair (2003). She’s a great writer.The book has kind of a complex plot. After graduating, she moved to San Francisco, where a … LP: Or worse, that I’m getting eye-lift surgery or something, but only in one eye. It’s kind of bizarre, but I think I can only draw on things I’ve experienced. BLVR: How did he give it to you? In her candor and her anger and her unmistakable style—no one’s voice sounds like hers—Liz Phair is one of the best songwriters we have. 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