![]() ![]() Rather than trying to pass amid the brooding, self-serious punks of Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood-the scene she called Guyville-she both embraced and trumpeted her girliness, even when it required admitting to certain plainly uncool vulnerabilities. The appellation itself feels like a key to Phair’s particular brand of feminism. Imagine what it must’ve felt like to cram one into your car stereo that summer, to hear such a pure and instinctive voice opining the vagaries of romance, love, rejection, and what it means to want more than you’ve got.īack then, Phair called herself Girly-Sound. Eventually, those tapes got dubbed and passed around by the few friends she’d shared them with-rarified talismans exchanged among the privileged. Back in her parents’ house, she wrote and recorded three cassettes of candid, yearning indie rock that she never expected anybody else to hear or pay attention to. ![]() ![]() She was newly graduated from Oberlin College and had prodigally returned to the leafy, affluent suburbs of Chicago, where she’d come of age a decade before. ![]()
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