Liz Phair - Polyester Bride
Like Ms Phair, I ask myself if I should bother dating un-famous men. Not able to come to a conclusive answer, I seem to just take the safe route and date no one.
Meanwhile, a couple notes about this song/video/singer:
- It is SO begging to be remixed. I’ve always liked the tune, but listening to it ten years on (yes, really), the production sounds SO sluggish and post-Alternative Nation.
- I used to argue with my roommate at uni about how Liz Phair must be unhappy with the size/shape of her nose, because she almost never allowed it to be depicted in profile. He, a smitten straight man, could not concede that she was anything other than perfection. This video largely bears out my theory. Instead of turning her head as one naturally might, she faces the camera straight-on, with eyes wide-open in a way that is more than a little freaky.
- Still, there is a very woman-centric/Lillith Fair-like/(dare I say ‘feminist’?) quality to this video, which makes our Katy Perry-dominated era seem just a little bit more vacuous by contrast.
