This month’s comeback, Soberish, her seventh album and first since 2010’s Funstyle, is often as off-kilter and compelling as Exile, but without making any attempts to re-create 1993. Meanwhile, in hindsight, her much-panned 2003 self-titled LP now sounds equally influential on today’s younger musicians as her classics. This self-aware, and kind, candor is what makes Liz Phair such an engaging personality and artist whose albums are remarkably accessible in their transparency her 1991 lo-fi tapes as Girly-Sound and her Matador debut, 1993’s Exile in Guyville, remain some of indie rock’s most beloved works of bluntness, each sounding as vivid and knowing as they did nearly 30 years ago.
“It would make my job a lot easier,” she deadpans. “We’re asking my brain to do something it doesn’t naturally do.” She delivers the news with a smile palpable through the phone this is someone who doesn’t need to apologize but who still feels apologetic for not being what she describes as a “favorite-ing” person. “I don’t really do favorites,” she explains. “Can I give a caveat before we start?” Liz Phair is letting me know that she’s going to do her best to talk about Liz Phair. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc I was part of a whole movement of indie music, and some things hit better than others. 'I don't know what you're talking about, I never said nothing, you can't pin that on me.' I was playing the female version.“I don’t feel like I invented anything. You gotta roll me and see how it's going to roll.
I may show up at the bar and be available, and I might not. 'Tumbling Dice' is really about, again, I'm picturing all the guys from Urge Overkill, hey man, you may get to go home with me tonight, you may not. 'Never Said' was one of those times where I was showing I could be just as unaccountable. I think that was the natural song to play on the radio and make the video for. I was like, I need to do the big radio hit there, which is funny because 'Never Said' ended up being the radio hit off that record for me, and I don't think Matador would have gone with that just because I said so. Because in my mind 'Tumbling Dice' is the big radio hit.
and this song corresponds to " Tumbling Dice." Phair recalled to Rolling Stone in a 2010 interview: "I remember thinking the most important song happens at the fifth song. Exile in Guyville was written by Phair as a song-by-song reply to the Rolling Stones' 1972 album, Exile on Main St.
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