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"Why Can't I?" is a song by American singer-songwriter Liz Phair. It was released on May 5, 2003, as the lead single from her self-titled fourth album. It reached number 32 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Phair's highest-charting single and only top-40 single. The song was certified gold in the US, having sold 500,000 copies there.
Liz Phair debuted at #27 on the Billboard 200. [9] The single "Why Can't I?" entered the Adult Top 40 and Hot Adult Contemporary charts, and its music video placed Phair in heavy rotation on VH1 for the first time. [2] By July 2010, Liz Phair had sold 433,000 copies. [10]
Phair was born in New Haven, Connecticut, [5] on April 17, 1967. [6] She was adopted at birth by Nancy, a historian and museologist, [7] and John Phair, later an AIDS researcher and head of infectious diseases at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; [8] her mother later worked as a professor at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sexually explicit lyrics by female artists are common now, but when trailblazing Chicago singer-songwriter Liz Phair released her voice-of-a-generation debut album Exile in Guyville back in 1993 ...
Phair explained: "I feel like in my life I've always struggled against being kind of the girl-next-door to people, and always wanting people to see me as maybe having more depth." [ 1 ] Phair described the song as an updated version of "6'1"", a song from Exile in Guyville .
The raw, unadorned sound and angsty, highly personal lyrics of acts such as Soundgarden, ... Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, Pixies and Beck turned heads and opened minds of younger listeners. ...
"Why Can't I?" charted on Billboard ' s Top 40 Tracks chart in 2004, peaking at number 15 [16] "Why Can't I?" charted on Billboard ' s Top 40 Adult Recurrent chart in 2004, peaking at number 1 [16] "Polyester Bride" was an international commercial single in Japan only and a promotional single in the US and Europe. [17]
Funstyle is the sixth album by Liz Phair, independently released on her official website on July 3, 2010. A CD version was released on October 19, 2010 on Rocket Science Records. It includes a bonus disc containing ten songs from her Girly-Sound tapes. [1]