It was around the same time that she reconnected with Brad Wood, the producer who helped Phair shape the spiky, lo-fi instrumentation of Guyville and it's follow-up, the superb Whip-Smart. A few years later and the resulting album, Soberish, is less a recreation of Guyville than a sort of spiritual successor.
She kept herself busy throughout the last decade with a side-gig composing and scoring music for TV shows, including CW hits like The and It paid the bills while also broadening her technical expertise in the studio, informing her creative approach for what became Soberish. I think scoring was illuminating in the sense of how much you can express with just music. I wanted you to feel the awkwardness of sitting alone at that hotel bar with me. The title Soberish holds a dual meaning for Phair—one superficial and one slightly more esoteric.
Phair considers Soberish the most ambitious project in her catalogue since her self-titled LP from Practically overnight, the darling of indie-rock was suddenly label-mates with Neil Diamond and Coldplay. Depending on which sector of her fanbase you ask, Liz Phair is either a top-notch collection of pop-rock anthems or a glaring stain on her artistic legacy.
The eponymous album saw her lean into her pop sensibilities more transparently than ever before. Perhaps naysayers are pissed that the public has chosen to make Morissette a star instead of the critically lauded Liz Phair.
Phair even ended up opening for Morissette on her Junkie tour. Soberish is named after that lightly sozzled feeling that grants you just the right amount of swagger.
A decade spent reissuing past albums and considering her legacy has also made her a bit nostalgic. It resembles her place in the music industry today. We connect on social media, and they give me props and I give them admiration. Enjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a day free trial. To call Soberish a return to her roots would suggest Phair has specific roots to return to.
I was expected to be a representative of something. Endless interviews from that period ended up becoming combative, with journalists lecturing Phair as if she had turned her back on them. Did it make her defensive? Like if I had stolen money or snuck out of the house or whatever. But I was determined to be free, to be inventive and playful and experimental and adventurous. Phair rose to fame in an era of women fighting for agency in an industry rife with sexualisation.
Are my blowjob songs fully evolved? They were engaging with the dialogue that was. It was also the chapter in which she addressed the subject of her one-time collaboration with Ryan Adams, who in was accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct. Phair and Adams worked together on an ultimately unfinished record a few years ago. In her book, she described him making a pass at her and then losing interest in their project as soon as she turned him down.
Did it lend fire to Guyville? But did it really give me any lasting benefit to be good at that kind of thing? I just had to live through it. I would have done just as well without it. Stardom was never a goal, nor was a long-lasting career in the music business.
In , shortly after her manager insisted she start recording new material, she even devised a game plan to get out of it.
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