• Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Jun 24, 2003
Metascore
40

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 21
  2. Negative: 11 out of 21
  1. Q Magazine
    30
    Embarrassing. [Dec 2003, p.134]
  2. Thematically uninspired and painfully boring.
  3. Worst of all, the album closes with three decent songs, reminders of Phair's talent that are muted by what's come before.
  4. 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.
  5. Under The Radar
    20
    Upon 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]
  6. 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.
  7. Uncut
    20
    This is turgid, formulaic guff. [Nov 2003, p.114]
  8. 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.
  9. For what it is, it may in fact be quite good. But, to her discarded fans, at least, she's given the ultimate finger.
  10. 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.
  11. Liz Phair proves so ultimately unnecessary, it might as well not even exist.
User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 83 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 49 out of 83
  2. Negative: 25 out of 83
  1. Aug 5, 2022
    10
    I don't understand all of the backlash this album got. There are so many good songs on here. This is Liz Phair's best album. Standouts includeI don't understand all of the backlash this album got. There are so many good songs on here. This is Liz Phair's best album. Standouts include Love/Hate, My Bionic Eyes, It's Sweet, Why Can't I, and Rock Me. Firewalker and Good Love Never Dies are songs that don't fit for this album but Firewalker is somewhat decent for this album. This album should not have gotten the criticism that it did. Full Review »
  2. Oct 25, 2020
    10
    Liz Phair's self-titled album is an underrated gem, it has a pretty fresh and enjoyable pop rock and teen pop sound. I don't understand whyLiz Phair's self-titled album is an underrated gem, it has a pretty fresh and enjoyable pop rock and teen pop sound. I don't understand why people despise this beauty. Full Review »
  3. Dec 12, 2017
    0
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