music as autobiography, some more

[maribou]

I just realized the reason I love Liz Phair's song "Perfect World" so much is that if I'd heard it when I was about fifteen or sixteen, some part of me would've sat up and said "OMG MY SONG IS WROTE OMG TEH BRILLYENZ!!!!" And even if I never feel that way now, my inner tenth-grader's still in there somewhere, you know? And it gives a lot of extra resonance to a song that really isn't about me in any immediate way.

PS Yeah, yeah, I know nobody was speaking in LOLcat in 1993. Cut me some slack, man.