Do you still want her to be your blowjob queen?

Kelefa Sanneh should be the only critic allowed to write about music for The New York Times. Today's Liz Phair interview is a rehash of feuds we all thought settled in 2003, when she released her eponymous album, with its Matrix production and Pro Tooled instruments. Apart from the writer's slovenly prose (he refers to singles as "a particular genre of music") and penchant for hackneyed marketing terms ("Liz Phair, former crown princess of indie music..."), this piece is the journalistic version of the slick, empty pop Phair's detractors accused her of making in 2003.

Incidentally, I love that album. I heard will-to-power and I-am-extraordinary as far back as 1993's Exile To Guyville; and recording a purported track-by-track answer to the Stones'Exile On Main Street suggests a desire to nudge a place in the rock canon that lo-fi indie fans were willing to overlook when it suited their purposes.