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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Liz UnPhair? |
| Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:39:45 -0500 |
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I dunno...I think that if one isn't able to describe to their producers a
big pop oriented rock sound, one should probably not be making big pop
oriented rock records.
Moreover, if that's the story that Liz is trying to sell...well, it's
bullshit. She was signed on the basis of her primitive Girlysound
recordings. If she wanted to write a big pop oriented rock record, she
probably wouldn't have done an alleged track for track response to The
Rolling Stones EXILE ON MAIN STREET. She reveled in her indie-ness, when it
suited her needs.
I think that Liz Phair is pretty talented. I also think that she uses the
media to suit her needs and is a top notch bullshitter whose comments to the
press must be taken with a grain of salt. Her rant to the Times is as
calculated as anything else she has done.
That's what is so fascinating about her -- she wraps herself in a few layers
of artifice, yet she is capable to terrific plain spoken real life lyrics.
No one else quite like her...
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Liz UnPhair?
>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:16:43 -0400
>
>AT Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:53:04 Mike Bennett wrote:
>
>>I read this letter to the editor from Ms. Phair in the NY Times yesterday,
>>in response to a negative review last Sunday. Someone on another list
>>posted this. While I want to keep an open mind on the record, and don't
>>want to let the negative pub affect my judgment, this letter makes me
>>think Liz is a thin skinned loser prima donna twit. -- Mike Bennett
>
>I read an interesting interview with Liz Phair in the Hamilton Spectator
>this past weekend that was quite revealing in that the media is portraying
>Phair's new album as an Avril Lavigne inspired commercial sell-out. Phair's
>wanted it known that the label had no say in how she approached the new
>record and that the Avril Lavigne inspiration was the logical means to go
>BACK to the direction she had attempted to on her first album -- which the
>label couldn't grasp back then....especially with the fact that she had
>absolutely zero vocabularly for describing to her producers or label reps
>that she wanted to make a loud, pop- oriented ROCK record.
>
>Instead, it turned into a precious minimalist affair with Phair flailing,
>publicly, through her own musical growth....something she is embarassed
>about, but fans and media have turned into a Holy audio epiphany.
>
>Not defending the lady, but I find it quite refreshing that she's willing
>to sacrifice over half her fanbase to delve into the pop medium she's
>ALWAYS desired to be part of...even if the world feels she's sold out.
>
>
>Jaimie Vernon,
>President,
>Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
>http://www.bullseyecanada.com
>"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"
>
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