Listen, this is uncouth, but I’d like to think she’d appreciate my being direct: “Fuck and Run” is way more about the running than the fucking. Yeah, I feel weird saying that; I feel weird reading about Exile in Guyville at all. Even Liz Phair’s biggest fans have a tendency to write wildly out-of-pocket shit about Liz Phair; even glowing reviews of Exile in Guyville can be super-gnarly, dude. Summoned by her sneaky-deadpan voice—and the dense, nervous, blurry furtiveness of her guitar-playing, not to mention her blunt and exasperated and legit-genius lyricism—new Guyvilles sprout up around Liz
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