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Date Posted: 12:53:37 05/20/03 Tue
Author: charly
Subject: Re: It's not about the art, it's about the $$$$ (get over it)
In reply to: Drew 's message, "It's not about the art, it's about the $$$$ (get over it)" on 21:26:45 05/15/03 Thu

the lyrics suck on this album! "why can't i breathe whenever i think about you?" it's not about liz releasing a POP album, it's about her releasing a BAD album. how can someone who wrote "canary" or "divorce song" or "stratford on guy" when she was like 25, write "favorite" from the new album after TEN YEARS of life experience? that's the problem--if it was a pop album of interesting lyrics and stories and ideas, it would be fine. the fact that it's a pop album FILLED with lyrics like "it's an itch we know we are gonna scratch/gonna take awhile for this egg to hatch" is what's annoying.

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[> Re: It's not about the art, it's about the $$$$ (get over it) -- Uziqguy, 06:23:55 05/21/03 Wed

The thing is, though the album is probably far more poppy than the others (alas, I have only heard the single), Liz's fans will still buy it. I know I will. She deserves to be played on the radio. Her sound, for me, has always been solid and has always eluded any major radio play, with the exception of "Supernova", which can hardly be called given "major" radio play.

I also tend to think that if radio finally embraces Liz, then it is a step forward for corporate radio on a whole. I once had a program director for a major "alternative" station tell me that "the only thing Liz Phair will ever be remembered for is 'Supernova'."
I would love for him to be proven wrong.

As far as $$$ is concerned, what's wrong with making some cash while, at the same time, broadening your sound and trying something new for yourself? Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. It's been far too long since her last album...I'm ready to hear some growth.


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