VG SHEET MUSIC BOOK:LIZ PHAIR"WHY CAN'T I?"PIANO GUITAR VOICE-HIT ROCK POP PLAY!

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VG SHEET MUSIC BOOK:LIZ PHAIR"WHY CAN'T I?"PIANO GUITAR VOICE-HIT ROCK POP PLAY!
SOME GENERAL INFO ABOUT THE SONG Why Can't I?
"Why Can't I?" is a song by American pop rock artist Liz Phair. It was released in May 2003 as the lead single from her self-titled album, Liz Phair. It reached number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, Phair's highest-charting single to date, and only top 40 single. The single was certified gold, having sold 500,000 copies.[1] The song is featured on the 13 Going on 30 Soundtrack.
"Why Can't I?"Single by Liz Phairfrom the album Liz PhairB-side
"Jeremy Engle"
"Fine Again"
ReleasedMay 2003Studio
Decoy Studios (Studio City)
Genre
Pop rock
Length
3:28
LabelCapitolSongwriter(s)
Lauren Christy
Scott Spock
Graham Edwards
Liz Phair
Producer(s)
The Matrix
Andrew Slater
Liz Phair singles chronology"Johnny Feelgood"
(1998)"Why Can't I?"
(2003)"Extraordinary"
(2004)Music video"Why Can't I?" on YouTube
Writing and inspirationEdit
"Why Can't I?" was written by Phair and The Matrix. Phair released "Why Can't I?" in hopes that she would expand her audience and attract more listeners to its parent record, Liz Phair (2003). In an interview with Vice, Phair explained: "My hope was that someone would hear the song in the gym and buy the record and then start buying my albums and sort of have an awakening".[2]
CompositionEdit
"Why Can't I?" is written in the key of B major and has a tempo of 81 beats per minute.[3] It follows a chord progression of B–B/A♯–G♯m7–E(add 2).[4]
Critical receptionEdit


"Why Can't I?" was compared to songs by Avril Lavigne (left) and Michelle Branch (right).
Chuck Taylor of Billboard called the song a "melodic adult pop/rocker" and a "knock-out, stand-out, break-out record that adult top 40 should take right home."[5] Matt LeMay of Pitchfork said that with the "cookie-cutter rock/pop background" it could easily pass for Michelle Branch."[6] Mary Huhn of the New York Post called the song "a breathless romantic confection, and very un-Phair-like".[7] Mim Udovitch of Slate called the song an "almost parodically basic power ballad" but stated that the chorus is "hooky".[8]
Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club criticized the song, referring to it as "an embarrassingly awkward marriage of dumbed-down Phair songwriting and every tired production trick of the last year". Adrien Begrand of PopMatters compared the song to Avril Lavigne, referring to it as "a note-for-note retread of Lavigne's "Complicated".[9]
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Last edited 22 days ago by John of Reading
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