Liz Phair defends Lana Del Rey
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM 
Polarizing singer/songwriter/ self-described “anarcha-feminist” Liz Phair weighed in on the Lana Del Rey conundrum this week. Phair wrote a special column for The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy yesterday entitled “Liz Phair on Why Lana Del Rey Scares Rock’s Boys Club”.
In the article Phair defends Del Rey, saying the she 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 then argues that all the criticism of LDR is “simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man”.
She goes on to say that “Lana Del Rey really needs to duke it out with M.I.A. and Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Kim Gordon, The Ting Tings and Tegan and Sara. That’s where she’s relevant. It’s our sh–. You wouldn’t understand”. Read the whole article over at The Wall Street Journal and listen to Liz Phair's "Fuck and Run" from Exile In Guyville below.
