“You could not have given us a bigger middle finger,” says the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, referring to how Trump’s election appeared to women. Music aficionados – and women who came of age with her acid-tongued confessionals – have celebrated Phair’s return. “There was a very strong sense of: I’m tired of giving up the patriarchy, and the mainstream, just to have it recreated in this sub-sect of alternative music,” she says. “I think my songs aren’t straight enough.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Phair recording Exile in Guyville in 1992. “We’ve reached the level of obscenity.”So once again Phair is crafting her own idiosyncratic protest music, trying to process it all.

Source: The Guardian May 03, 2018 12:28 UTC