On episode of 14 of Broken Records, Remfry and Steve get down and dirty with Liz Phair, the American singer-songwriter's 4th studio album from 2003 (originally aired on Riot Act #97 on 12th June 2020).

Despite the album debuting at #27 on the Billboard 200, the album came under a lot of criticism from frosty critics who didn't seem to be able to grasp the concept that, sometimes, women are horny.

At Metacritic, a review aggregator site, the album holds a score of 40 out of 100. Many decried Phair for "selling out", and she became a "piñata for critics", according to The New York Times. The newspaper's Meghan O'Rourke titled her review of the album "Liz Phair's Exile in Avril-ville", and complained that Phair "gushes like a teenager", having "committed an embarrassing form of career suicide." Matt LeMay from Pitchfork rated the album a 0.0 out of 10, stating, "it's sad that an artist as groundbreaking as Phair would be reduced to cheap publicity stunts and hyper-commercialized teen-pop."

But was such criticism phair?

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