Liz Phair's Soberish
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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How to Write a Clever Song
I'm attracted to my own vulnerability. You have your conscious mind and you have your ambassador self that goes out in the world and puts on the best show. And I would always choose sometimes with grammar, like I know what correct grammar is. But sometimes I will sing it incorrectly because it just feels unpolished, feels more honest to me. There was a rhyme and I don't even remember the song when I was listening to your album and it was something diamonds rhymed with behind us. It doesn't sound like it rhymes when I say it, but it worked perfectly in the song. So it's like this discovery. It's like going into a dark cave and finding
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