Lorraine Ali on watching the careers of Alanis Morissette and Liz Phair and what their music has meant over the course of their careers and at this moment in music and cultural change.
Liz Phair was supposed to be on tour with Alanis Morissette right now. Instead, she’s interviewing the “Jagged Little Pill” star for The Times.“One of the things Alanis and I have in common is that we both were chicks in a male world, writing from the point of view of being more than just a girl,” said Phair. “We were writing the female experience, but we were also writing as humans, unafraid to embrace humanness.
Morissette and Phair externalized the internal in songs long before #MeToo, breaking down barriers for female musicians and aspiring music journalists like myself. and Phair. As absurd as that sounds, there were hardly any female rock writers, which was problematic, given the girl power movement and the rising tide of women in rock.Artists like Bikini Kill and Hole were railing against the patriarchy, but with few female critics to consider their work, the ideas behind their “raw” voicesand Phair, many male writers would spend an entire review deconstructing the “explicit sexual nature” of their lyrics, i.e. blow job references in both their songs.
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