So I’ve been listening to this playlist a lot lately. Its title in my phone is Lilith Farewell, because I’m an inveterate...

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Anyway, I’m quite fond of something I think of as “mid-90s VH1core chick-rock”, though I’ve also heard “secretary rock”, which is really much more clever. Here’s an interesting retrospective on some of its biggest hits. Click through to read.

jonathanbogart:

So I’ve been listening to this playlist a lot lately. Its title in my phone is Lilith Farewell, because I’m an inveterate punster, but it doesn’t consist exclusively of women who appeared at Lilith Fairs. That’s the general idea, though — mid-late 90s lady singer/songwriters with a folkish-rockish bent, the more thoughtful and plaintive the better. And (the important thing) the songs were to one degree or another radio hits. I heard them all at the time, though I haven’t listened closely to any of them in a decade, and some I never did. But because I’ve been listening to them a lot recently, of course I’ve thought of one or two things to say about them.