Liz Phair on Guyville Reissue and Blowjobs

As previously reported, Liz Phair is returning to Guyville, with a re-issue of her pivotal indie rock release (Exile in Guyville). The re-issue will be out on Dave Matthews’s ATO Records, includes some cool extras and will precursor Phair’s new album on the label.

Billboard.com features a pretty interesting interview with Phair in which she discusses the new record. She says recording for the forthcoming album will begin in mid-April. The singer/songwriter also comments on how her most lauded album would fair today.

Billboard: “Guyville” was released at an interesting moment for women in 1993 — Clinton had just been elected, riot grrrl was happening and gender politics were very different. If it were released today, how do you think it would do?

Liz Phair: I’m of two minds about the whole thing. Fifteen years ago, things seemed a lot more male-dominated, and now you get women busting out everywhere, so that’s good. But the way they are busting out is still very much within the constraints of what men want them to do. Maybe we don’t need to have as much anger as we did back then, but we still need strong women. I see all these young women on porn sites, all these sorority girls posting pictures of themselves giving blowjobs and thinking that it’s empowering, and I feel like they really missed the point.

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