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Liz Phair with Niko Stratis

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The Importance of High Girl Voices in Music

"I present as this like Breck girl blonde girl next door you know upper middle class good girl and I sing in this like high girl voice," she says. "She thinks love it she's on." The song is about a woman who wants to be heard by men but can't because of her size. It was recorded at Oberlin, where the singer learned that people don't really listen to women's voices if they're not pitch-perfect. She also wrote songs with sexually explicit lyrics which will play an example after we talk about a little bit will play flower.

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