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Foregrounding the self-doubt that was a quiet but insistent subtext on the eponymous album, producer John Shanks provides unobtrusive arrangements and lets Phair strum more electric guitar; this is a singer-songwriter record, like Exile On Guyville. It’s also warmer than its predecessor.
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BlenderAnother brazenly varried set. [Oct 2005, p.142]
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On Somebody's Miracle, Phair is more confident than on her previous mass-appeal bid, 2003's Liz Phair.
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Entertainment WeeklyPhair sounds mostly bored. [7 Oct 2005, p.76]
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Most tracks have a commercial sheen that makes the songs sound like they were custom-made to be played in the background of pivotal scenes on The O.C.
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SpinThis album is closer to 1998's whitechocolatespaceegg: mature and complicated. [Oct 2005, p.136]
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Los Angeles Times[It] isn't a miracle by a long shot, but the highlights show signs of a once-valuable artist trying to reset her creative compass. [2 Oct 2005]
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Pleasant but dull.
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Phair doesn't need her angry-girl persona to prove she has talent, but she may still need it to stand out from the crowd.
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While Somebody's Miracle marks an improvement over Liz Phair, there's still nothing revolutionary, or even memorable, happening here.
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Somebody’s Miracle is a collection of pleasantly catchy, if unremarkable, pop songs.
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Under The RadarWhat's disappointing about Somebody's Miracle is not so much a matter of genre, tone or production sheen, but that Phair has made herself indistinguishable by falling in line. [#11, p.112]
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If she still manages to retain a major label recording contract after this bomb, that'll be the real miracle.
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On Somebody's Miracle, she goes for a folksy, acoustic style, but she still oversings, holding notes too long and tackling pop choruses she doesn't have half the voice for.
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The CD is not all bad, and it's certainly not the complete disaster some critics want it to be.
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BillboardEven the few noteworthy moments are lost in the banality of the music. [15 Oct 2005]
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Now this is a terrible Liz Phair record.
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The type of banal, greeting-card rubbish that even Diane Warren would probably find trite.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 42
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Mixed: 3 out of 42
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Negative: 13 out of 42
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Aug 5, 2022This album is so good. "Leap Of Innocence" and "Everything (Between Us) are 2 of her best songs.
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May 15, 2018the only thing i can actually say about this is... this is really bad, really crap
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JustinNJul 5, 2009