By Julia Chaplin
Spin, August 1997
Former Guyville chronicler Liz Phair may now be a happily married mother, but infidelity is the theme of her upcoming whitechocolatespaceegg. “I fantasize about what I’m not living,” Phair explains. Two years in the making, Phair’s eagerly awaited third album, slated for an October release, is being produced by Scott Litt (R.E.M., Nirvana) and features members of Beck’s band and R.E.M. (minus Michael Stipe), who make a cameo on the track “Fantasize”. Phair says that while she went for “a more dreamy, weird sound quality” than the crystal-clear pop of Whip-Smart, she was most influenced by Lyle Lovett’s The Road To Ensenada. “It’s all about his breakup with Julia Roberts,” Phair enthuses. “It was like living in a bad romance novel.”
