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...Phair struggled to make her album more commercial, an executive suggested she try writing songs with the Matrix, the team behind Lavigne's ear-bending debut. Phair was hesitant. "Mostly it was the name the Matrix," she says. "Why would you want people to think of you as the evil, all-controlling, delusional architecture of the universe?" It turned out that the Matrix--Scott Spock plus husband-and-wife team Graham Edwards and Lauren Christy--was named in an homage to the womb (no one said it was a great homage) and that Christy was a thirty-something...
...fascinating to stupid teens-- "I want to play Xbox on your floor," she sings. Longtime fans will get the humor even though they may resent being cast aside like last year's game console. Teens, meanwhile, will wonder how Mrs. Robinson got into their bedroom. The Matrix songs on Liz Phair sound like sugar-coated contemporary pop, but they feel all wrong. Pop is equal parts attitude and sound; when the attitude is neediness, the sound is of people running away...
...hooks and lyrics you can scream in the car. Hate me if you want, but nothing would make me happier than if my songs got blasted from pop radio all summer." Phair, a single mom with a 6-year-old son, got help making the album commercial from the Matrix, the team behind Avril Lavigne's ear-bending debut. But she mostly stuck to her own irony-laden voice for the lyrics; on Rock Me and Extraordinary the subjects are, respectively, stupid teen fascination and the desire of a woman in her mid-30s to be fascinating to stupid teens...
...June 30, 2003 Issue Past Issues Harry Potter June 23, 2003 ----------------- Arthritis June 16, 2003 ----------------- Narco Korea June 9, 2003 ----------------- Nature vs. Nurture June 2, 2003 ----------------- Endless War? May 26, 2003 ----------------- The Democrats May 19, 2003 ----------------- Inside The Matrix May 12, 2003 ----------------- China: SARS Nation May 5, 2003 ----------------- Asian Heroes...
...June 30, 2003 Issue Past Issues Harry Potter June 23, 2003 ----------------- Arthritis June 16, 2003 ----------------- Narco Korea June 9, 2003 ----------------- Nature vs. Nurture June 2, 2003 ----------------- Endless War? May 26, 2003 ----------------- The Democrats May 19, 2003 ----------------- Inside The Matrix May 12, 2003 ----------------- China: SARS Nation May 5, 2003 ----------------- Asian Heroes...