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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.
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.
Liz Phair is the fourth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Liz Phair, released on June 24, 2003, on Capitol Records. It was produced by Phair, Michael Penn, Pete Yorn, R. Walt Vincent and the Matrix songwriting team. Liz Phair departed from Phair's earlier lo-fi sound for more polished pop
Songs she had prepped but didn’t get a chance to perform were “What Was I Made For,” by Billie Eilish, and “Why Can’t I” by Liz Phair. “I loved that I was able to choose my own songs ...
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 ...
"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]
This article originally appeared in the April 1993 issue of SPIN. Liz Phair is a well-off Winnetka, Illinois, brat. Liberally educated at Oberlin, she spent years cooped-up in her bedroom with a ...
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 .