Postby DJMurphy » Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:13 pm
I dunno, D. I wonder if instead of saving face (and what a cute face she has to save!) , if the article on Billboard.com isn't what she really feels, and if she didn't get rapped on the knuckles by Capitol Rec's for talking out of turn. I suppose we won't know until such point that Liz Phair no longer records for Capitol, and/or any gag orders they might slap on her expired.
There's a similar case with Dave Matthews, with the Lillywhite Sessions. Like him or lump him, the story went that the bootleg cuts that slipped out were the original ideas for what eventually became the Everyday album/piece of shit. The fans and even the critics praised the far superior Lillywhite bootlegs, and came up with theories that the original tracks were quashed by a hit-hungry RCA Records. Even though Mr. Matthews claims that Everyday was the record he meant to make, you gotta wonder to which extent a gun wasn't being held to his head when he said that, much in the same way that Liz Phair might be under a considerable amount of duress to say just how great and artistically true all that Matrix-produced ephemera really is.
Just a theory...