Liz Phair

First there was her voice, which mixed girlish glee with irony, both pleasingly
conversational and strange in its deadpan rendering of a tumultuous emotional landscape.
Then there was her eye, which observed in dead-on detail real-life stories of desire and
relationships and fame and things even more ordinary, like bad roommates. Then there was
her talent for and love of pop songcraft, sifted through her own peculiar filter, fi... More >

"I made sure it wasn't sh*tty, but didn't worry about whether it was, like, A+"--L. Phair, Billboard, 8/6/94 ("Whip-Smart," "Shane")