"To have it still resonate in the culture is a mixed blessing," she tells me one afternoon, calling from her home in L.A. "Sometimes we're getting along, sometimes we're not. But these days we're like those couples who have been together a long time and we just really appreciate each other."
Three decades later, Guyville has never stopped being relevant as a rejection of indie rock beta-male fuckery, but also as an affirmation of something bigger: embodied female sexuality and a hard-won sense of autonomy. 'Flower,' my personal favorite track, remains a shocking song about desire in part because of how simple and viscerally spoken it is: 'I want to fuck you like a dog/I'll take you home and make you like it,' Phair sing-speaks over sparse chords and her own girlish backing vocals. 'That song ripped a hole in my universe,' she says now, adding that it made her preppy and proper family very uncomfortable.
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