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Phair morphs from indie darling to pop princess with latest album.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Kent Kimes
Liz Phair feels as though she always straddled the line between waify blonde and artistic feminist, even when dishing out put-downs of the male-dominated alternative rock scene on her 1993 debut "Exile in Guyville." But her waify blonde alter ego is getting more attention these days.
Phair has reinvented herself with a stylistic makeover that landed her, scantily clad, in glossy magazine photo shoots, and a music makeover that landed her on _ gasp _ the pop charts.
Her visual image, it seems, is catching up with her penchant for X-rated lyrics and song subjects.
Phair, 36, readily admits that her self-titled album released in June was an attempt at mainstream success as she moved from independent label Matador to major heavyweight Capitol Records.
But she thinks lyrics, such as "I want to play Xbox on your floor," from the new, shiny, self-titled pop album sailed right over critics' and the music press's heads.
"They don't understand I'm being tongue in cheek," she said in a phone conversation from Los Angeles, before the second tour in support of "Liz Phair" kicked off earlier this month.
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