31 Days of Music -- Day 26

An song/album that changed your opinion about an artist: 

"Liz Phair" by Liz Phair (2003) 

I always regretted not seeing Liz Phair live and now, if the opportunity every arose, I probably wouldn't go if you paid me.  I loved her debut Exile in Guyville and thought her third album Whitechocolatespacegg was sadly underrated. Listening to those albums, I thought she was a creative songwriter and intentionally under-produced. I thought she was tough, smart, and totally in-your face.  

I thought she was a role model for Gen-X girls trying to navigate the tricky world of relationships in the 90's with dudes that make better friends than lovers.  Then she made this steaming pile of shit and I lost all respect for her.  I can't more accurately describe the album than below, taken from pitchforkmedia.com:

"Ten years on from Exile, Liz has finally managed to achieve what seems to have been her goal ever since the possibility of commercial success first presented itself to her: to release an album that could have just as easily been made by anybody else.

In recent interviews, Phair has been upfront about her hopes of mainstream success, and claims full awareness that Liz Phair is likely to alienate many of her original fans. What she doesn't seem to realize is that a collection of utterly generic rocked-out pop songs isn't likely to win her many new ones. It's sad that an artist as groundbreaking as Phair would be reduced to cheap publicity stunts and hyper-commercialized teen-pop."