{"id":591,"date":"2013-06-28T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T08:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2013-06-26T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:32:11","slug":"song-of-the-week-divorce-song-by-liz-phair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: “Divorce Song” by Liz Phair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n

Here’s “Divorce Song” by Liz Phair:<\/p>\n

Liz Phair — “Divorce Song”<\/a><\/p>\n

Liz Phair’s debut album, Exile in Guyville,<\/em> was released twenty years ago this week.\u00a0 There’s a more or less interesting account of its making featuring contributions from Liz Phair, Brad Wood and others in Spin.\u00a0<\/em>Click here to read it<\/a>. Part of what makes Exile in Guyville<\/em> so great is the spareness of the sound, which this song demonstrates well.\u00a0 Of course there’s also the songwriting, and particular the directness and sharpness of the lyrics: pretty much every song on the album is in one way or another a challenge, and “Divorce Song” presents a particularly poignant and fragile challenge (can a challenge be fragile? I think it can).<\/p>\n

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