aimtomisbehavepodcast:

“Sex and consequence are well-explored territory for the indie rock dude. Ben Gibbard has made his career out of feeling bad about having sex. Jeff Mangum saw mountaintops covered in semen. Rivers Cuomo got tired of it. Gareth Campesinos often synthesizes sex with death and almost everything else. It’s interesting to me, then, how very little of the music we hear from women in the indie realm tackles this same subject matter. The most notable exception for me being Exile in Guyville.

Now, I made a crack about Liz Phair on the podcast, but Exile is without a doubt one of the most frank and interesting takes on sex by any songwriter. Not only does it provide nuanced views on male/female relationships of all kinds, but it’s unafraid to throw eyebrow-raising lines like “Fuck and run/ ever since I was seventeen/ Fuck and run/ ever since I was twelve” or “Everything you say is so/obnoxious, funny, true, and mean/ I want to be your blowjob queen.”

A lot of the male take on sex lacks any amount of self-examination beyond “Why did I make that bad decision?” And it usually even refuses to answer that question. Guys tend to paint themselves as the heroes of their own interpersonal relationship stories, and self-awareness would shatter that facade. But Phair took a microscope to everyone: the male friend that secretly wants to fuck you, the frat boys treating women poorly, but mostly and most poignantly on herself. She used sex and its consequences as a window into her own insecurities, a trick very few people of any gender have the guts to attempt.” - Chris Bosman (@racecarbrown)

 could just reblog every post on this tumblr. liz looove