Recent Liz Phair News: Making Sense of Liz Phair's Lana Del Rey Defense - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 Has each successive wave of backlash and backlash-to-backlash over a young pop singer with an OK voice, a distinctive Betty-Draper-gone-Beth-Orton (plus dated hip-hop slang!) aesthetic, and a couple of otherwise-forgettable TV appearances got you dizzy yet? Just you wait. Liz Phair wrote about Lana Del Rey over the weekend for the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog , and Phair's take is, um ... Lana Del Rey Watch: Liz Phair, SNL Weigh In - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 Did you spend your weekend arguing about football Born to Die and the role of the Internet in anointing and destroying young musicians? Great! So did Liz Phair, who came to Lana Del Rey's defense, kind of, in a post for The Wall Street Journal 's Speakeasy. "Lana Del Rey is exactly what I was hoping to inspire when I took on the male rock establishment alms twenty years ago with my debut record ... Echo Chamber: Liz Phair on Lana Del Rey - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 " Lana Del Rey is exactly what I was hoping to inspire when I took on the male rock establishment almost twenty years ago with my debut record, Exile in Guyville ... She's writing herself into existence. She's giving herself a part to play because, God knows, no one else will and she wants to matter in this life. As far as I can tell, it's working. I went straight to iTunes and bought her new ... Lana Del Rey debuts at No. 2; Earl Sweatshirt returns? - Thu, 09 Feb 2012 - All press is good press. Lana Del Rey debuted at No. 2 on this week's Billboard charts, selling 77,000 copies of her debut album "Born to Die." It wasn't enough to beat the unbeatable Adele, but she easily bested Leonard Cohen, who came in at No. 3 with "Old Ideas." In other LDR news from the past week, she won't be touring until the fall and Liz Phair is rooting for her. Read full article >> Afternoon Snack: Onion ring edition - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 Afternoon snack featuring Liz Phair on Lana Del Rey, new stats about Facebook use and other tasty news bites. [ more " ]
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