Do Tell: What Is the Last Thing a Man Did to Win You Over?

TresSugar — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT

"Whatever happened to a boyfriend?
The kind of guy who tries to win you over
Whatever happened to a boyfriend?
The kind of guy who makes love 'cause he’s in it
I want a boyfriend, I want a boyfriend
I want all that stupid old shit,
Like letters and soda."

- Liz Phair, "F*ck and Run," from Exile in Guyville

What does courtship mean in a world of sexting, casual sex, and going Dutch on the first date? It's been a while since a guy pulled out all the stops to impress me, and although I consider myself a feminist, it's sweetly retro when they do that stuff. What is the last thing a man did to win you over? Did it work?

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Buzz In: What Album First Spoke for You?

BuzzSugar — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:33:10 PDT

I was lucky enough to catch Liz Phair's live show here in San Francisco this week, one of a handful where she's performing Exile in Guyville in its entirety to promote the album's re-release this month. While the 1993 album originally dropped a tiny bit too early for a then-preteen me to catch on right away, this CD found me by the time I had gotten my first taste of romantic angst. I felt (in that slightly melodramatic, teenage way) as if she'd opened my diary and added some guitar. She was singing about stuff I'd never heard a woman sing about, and it kind of blew my mind.

Thursday's Ani Difranco interlude on So You Think You Can Dance also reminded me of how much my friends and I related - or at least thought we did - to her 1996 album Dilate. And for a while, everything out of Tori Amos's mouth seemed so right-on and true. Oh, to be young and whisked away by the lyrics of a rock star!

Tell me: Which album first gave voice to your inner thoughts and dreams? What singers articulated everything in their music that you couldn't yet?

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