Heroes: Liz Phair:
In 1993, American singer-songwriter Liz Phair changed both the sound and face of alternative rock music. Her debut LP—a slightly bolstered evolution of the audio cassettes she’d been releasing under the moniker Girly-Sound— challenged the genre’s male dominance while introducing Phair’s sharp, occasionally sexually explicit lyrics, and strikingly deadpan vocal style.
“Some people are workaholics,” she says. “Some people fall in love all the time, or need drama all the time, or they’re constantly caffeinated and drinking alcohol at night. There’s a million ways that you can escape reality these days.” For Phair, a part of this escapism was the legalization of recreational weed in California. “That was always my favorite drug, but because it was illegal, it was just something I did at parties. Or I would sneak some from a friend. But as a single mom, I didn’t buy it illegally–ever. So then, when it was legalized, I had to go through this second puberty of like, ‘How much do I do?’”
Phair has settled on finding the balance between reality and escapism. But one increasingly potent realization was that she was not done releasing music. “I didn’t want to leave my career to just trickle off into nothing,” she says. “One thing that really impacted me was when Bowie and Prince passed. Suddenly we were losing all these icons from my youth that I thought had many years left in them. And my manager actually challenged me.
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