The Controversy Girl

By liz

Liz Phair has done it again, but perhaps not for the reason she hoped for. Her new album has caused quite a stir on basically every indie mailing list and message board that exists. Between bad reviews (ahem, Pitchfork ["It's sad that an artist as groundbreaking as Phair would willingly reduce herself to cheap publicity stunts and hyper-commercialized teen-pop."], AllMusic ["...such sentiments sound painfully trite coming from a 36-year-old woman"], and let's not forget The New York Times [" In the world of "Liz Phair," banality wins the day"]) and interview after interview where Liz goes on about money and sales "I wanna sell some records, goddammit" (Rolling Stone, 03/20/03). She is not being portrayed in the best of lights...