You Don’t Even Know Who Liz Phair Is

Liz Phair “Rock Me” – It’s Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s summer pop anthem! I’m not crazy about the rest of Liz Phair’s new album, but this song is enough for me to forgive the relative blandness of the rest of the record. It seems like most of the negative reviews of the record come down to accusing Phair of desperately selling out and trying to be Sheryl Crow (or Avril Lavigne); but I think the album, and this song in particular, is pretty true to who she’s been from the start. The lyrics are classic Liz – frank and straightfoward, unafraid of admitting to desires that a lady might not want to admit to in polite society. So she likes to fuck her hot young guy; why should she be ashamed? It may as well be an episode of Sex And The City, with Sarah Jessica Parker going into a bad monologue about why it’s socially acceptable for older men to sleep with young women, yet when older women sleep with young men blah blah blah blah. Liz spares us the Carrie Bradshaw melodrama, and gives us a bunch of euphoric Foo Fighters-style pop hooks instead, because she’s definitely more of an unashamed Samantha Jones type.