![]() The cult of Guyville raised the bar dizzyingly high. The reason people are coming back to it has everything to do with Liz.” “This was your kid sister expressing thoughts and desires candidly. “She didn’t have some tragic persona,” says Guyville producer Brad Wood. Guyville allowed for the possibility, radical at the time, that a reasonably well-adjusted woman from a Chicago suburb could want to “fuck like a dog,” as she famously declared on “Flower.” ![]() The result was accessible yet intimidating, a lo-fi, deeply felt distillation of the era. In 1993, the frequently stoned Oberlin grad just wanted to prove to her guy friends, Urge Overkill’s Nash Kato among them, that she, too, could make music. Back then, she didn’t feel there was as robust a community of female musicians as those she name-checks today: Courtney Barnett, St. Vincent, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino. Phair is the first to admit that while Guyville became an instant feminist touchstone, that wasn’t the original intent. There’s still sexist assumptions under the surface.” “That ‘fuck you’ to the boys feels relevant. “Among young female artists, is definitely a huge thing,” says the 20-year-old. ![]() This is well-appreciated by Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, whose debut LP, Clean, shares DNA with Guyville and who is slated to open for Phair on some tour dates. ![]() Liz Phair photographed on Maat Bibo Ergo Sum in Los Angeles. ![]()
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