When Liz Phair released her self-titled pop album in 2003, indie critics responded, “How could you?” But she answered, “Why Can’t I?” The Exit in Guyville singer made an album that foreshadowed a borderless future in which genres like “indie” and “pop” coexist and blend until the terms meaningfully vanish. But in the early 2000s, […]
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