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Wot I wrote in my blog a couple of weeks ago:
I'm really interested in hearing the new Liz Phair album, because it seems as though the debate that's going on around this record encompasses several of my current chief obsessions... Thing is, I already know which side of the argument I think I'm on, which makes me predisposed to like the album even if I, er, don't. Although actually, even if I don't end up liking most of the album myself, I'd still argue that a lot of the criticisms of it and Phair that I've seen and foreseen are nonsense. But let's wait and see/hear...
Still sticking to that, really. I don't really understand the parable/letter, but I do know that a lot of the negative reviews I've seen have been anti-pop, opposed to the idea of a woman Phair's age expressing her sexuality, and also subscribing to a wilfully disingenous form of nostalgia that so often characterises the music press. So Liz Phair is "trading indie-rock distinctiveness for bubble-gum pop" - I'd say good on her, if I wasn't too busy laughing at the idea of "indie-rock distinctiveness" as a contrast to pop. |
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