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Q MagazineEmbarrassing. [Dec 2003, p.134]
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Thematically uninspired and painfully boring.
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Worst of all, the album closes with three decent songs, reminders of Phair's talent that are muted by what's come before.
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Even the non-Matricized songs are full of useless keyboard riffs, tacked-on guitar solos and loads and loads of overdubbed Lizclone background singers. Never before has so much work been put into making somebody sound so ordinary.
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Under The RadarUpon hearing the endless barrage of banalities on Liz Phair, it's hard not to feel scorned by the trite and shrill pop songwriting. [#5, p.106]
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Where she used to be smart and provocative, Phair has become crass and bloated, her lyrics crude and her image apparently a grotesque exercise in self-parody.
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UncutThis is turgid, formulaic guff. [Nov 2003, p.114]
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A highly overproduced, shallow, soulless, confused, pop-by-numbers disaster that betrays everything the woman stood for a decade ago, and most heinously, betrays all her original fans.
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For what it is, it may in fact be quite good. But, to her discarded fans, at least, she's given the ultimate finger.
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There’s a glistening veneer of contented happiness coating the record, as if some adult-oriented radio programmer gleefully shat on it, but the tragedy is that Phair is wholly complicit in this utter waste of talent.
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Liz Phair proves so ultimately unnecessary, it might as well not even exist.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 83
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Mixed: 9 out of 83
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Negative: 25 out of 83
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