Inside Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” | The Booksmith

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Author Gina Arnold discusses the impact of Liz Phair‘s album, Exile in Guyville which was celebrated as one of the year’s top records by Spin and the New York Times.

With Exile in Guyville, Phair spoke for all the girls who loved the world of indie rock, but felt deeply unwelcome there. Like all great works of art, Exile was a harbinger of the shape of things to come: Phair may have undermined the male ego, but she also unleashed a new female one. For the sake of all the female artists who have benefited from her work—from Sleater-Kinney to Lana Del Rey and back again—it’s high time we go back to Guyville.

Gina Arnold is the author of Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana and Kiss This: Punk in the Present Tense. She has written for Spin, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice. Currently, she is finishing up her PhD at Stanford University.

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