Liz Phair's "Exile in Guyville"

8.12.2026

The first of what I hope to be a daily practice in appreciation/recommendation/gratitude? We'll see!

This Liz Phair album somehow becomes more relevant every year it exists. It is perennially current, and it is the mold that Olivia Rodrigo and Charli's new albums are working from. While I love what our new pop queens are branching out into, there is nothing that will ever beat the original. It is no skips, it is angry and horny and joyful and liberating, and it is meant to be played blasting with the windows down as you hit the highway through the final huff of Summer air.

The lyrics to 'Flower' will live in my bones until the day I die <3

"Every time I see your face I get all wet between my legs
Every time you pass me by, I heave a sigh of pain

Every time I see your face I think of things unpure, unchaste
I want to fuck you like a dog
I'll take you home and make you like it
Everything you ever wanted
Everything you ever thought of
Is everything I'll do to you
I'll fuck you and your minions, too
Your face reminds me of a flower
Kind of like you're underwater
Hair's too long and in your eyes
Your lips a perfect "suck me" size
You act like you're fourteen years old
Everything you say is so obnoxious, funny, true and mean

I want to be your blow job queen
You're probably shy and introspective
That's not part of my objective
I just want your fresh, young jimmy
Jamming, slamming, ramming in me
Every time I see your face I think of things unpure, unchaste

I want to fuck you like a dog
I'll take you home and make you like it
Everything you ever wanted
Everything you ever thought of
Is everything I'll do to you
I'll fuck you till your dick is blue

Every time"