One of my favorite artists ever. Her writing is genius. Her voice is one of a kind. Her sound is raw. And I just found out some exciting news from Rollingstone.

Yay!

Liz Phair Gets Happy

Singer to release first album in five years this May

Liz Phair debuted three new tunes during a nine-song set at the Ray-Ban Visionary Awards party at the Sundance Film Festival last week. The new material was a preview for her upcoming album, Happy Tragic Thing, due May 20th on Capitol Records.
It had been nearly five years since Phair released an album, and about three since she'd played in public. Despite so much time out of the spotlight, Phair -- known for paralyzing stage fright in her early years -- was confident and warm in delivering six older songs along with the soothing, upbeat "Extraordinary," the acoustic love song "Why Can't I?" and the name-checking rocker "Rock Me."

Her recognizable, husky delivery, which previously seemed a lo-fi instrument of dissonance, has grown and changed into an almost girlish alto. "My voice is so much better because I'm not as self-conscious as I used to be," she said afterwards. "Somewhere along the way I got rid of a lot of my fear about singing, and I've really been working hard on developing my voice."

Phair has been writing and recording with producers including Walt Vincent, Michael Penn and pop production team the Matrix (Avril Lavigne, Nick Carter), and reports that theme-wise "a lot of the songs have to do with my own personal gender issues." Phair plans to release some alternate mixes of the Happy Tragic Things tunes over the Internet, keeping the straight-ahead rockers for the album. "The songs that made it onto the album are the ones that rock," she says. "I wanna sell some records, goddammit!"

TRON said:

!! NOOO!!!

Looking forward to it...I love Liz Phair...IMO not one of her albums are bad.

Isn't she the singer who once sang a song with the lyric "I want to be your blowjob queen"?? Or am I just imagining this?

DavidEye said:

Yup, that's the one!

DavidEye said:

LOVE THAT SONG... though my favorite is Fuck and Run.

Natsume said:

It should've been a single. Imagine that!

TRON said:

LMAO!!

I can't get enough of Exile in Guyville.

Natsume said:

Yes. Hands down one of the best albums ever made. Still in my Top 20.

Exile In Guyville is one of those albums that I heard a lot about, but yet couldn't get into. I tried and tried...and I don't even remember anything about it now.

Supernova said:

Maybe you should go back to it again. Now that you're older and it's a decade old, you might be able to take it for what it is aside from the hype. I loved it so much that it stayed in my player for about a half year straight. Honestly, nothing else went in or out.

there was a lot of hype about her , her crude lyrics blah blah, she was supposed to become a 90s superstar, I like her 2nd album, Exile

Hey TRON & anyone else who is interested - her new album will be called Happy Tragic Thing.

Natsume said:

Yeah. Originally it was supposed to be a "dark, beautiful" album called "An Evening With". But she's been working on it since 2000, so who knows what this new project will be like.

Liz Phair has been doing some modeling for a store called p45.

A link to the p45 site: http://www.p45.com/


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TRON said:

Wow I'm a dumbass, I must have read over the original post at least 3 times and didn't catch that you posted that already.

Sorry!

Natsume said:

It's okay. I do it all the time. The worst was when I insulted Prince impersonators when the thread was started by a Prince impersonator. He posted a link to his site and a bunch of other text. I skipped over the text and went directly to the site. He's the one in that new Missy video. I said something like "I hate Prince impersonators, they make me sick." And he shot back, "Well I hate you too, prick!" Oops.

It's about time for her to come back!

I was very into Liz Phair at one point in my life and I'm willing to get back into her music...I guess I just found other things when she didn't put out an album for a long time.

And by the way...those pictures...one hot mama.

TRON said:

What's even sadder is that lameass insult he gave you.

Natsume said:

I'll try to dig up the thread if I can. But for real. Prince impersonators truly creep me out.

TRON said:

I kinda met one by accident. Sir Jack I believe? It was at last year's BAYNPG's Love Bazaar. My friend and I were tripping out on how much 'that guy over there' looked like him, and I only found out he was a real P impersonator months later when somebody from the BAYNPG sent out an e-mail about it.

Moonbeam said:

I agree...

Exile In Guyville is a very good CD...and, from what I can recall EIG was/is a response to the album of another artist...

I'm trying to remember, tho, to which CD she said she was responding to...but...

...listening to those two CDs back to back sometime could be a very, very good experience...

i believe it was a response to the rolling stones "exile on main street", another great album IMHO.


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