Girly Sound - Reworking

Reworking

Phair has frequently gone back and reworked many of the songs for her studio albums throughout her career: she told Rolling Stone "I go in there and rip stuff off -- it's like a library". Phair's debut album Exile in Guyville is largely a reworking of songs from these tapes. However, some of these tracks were modified in ways that altered the meaning and made them more mainstream-acceptable: in "Flower" the line "I’ll fuck you and your girlfriend, too" was changed to "I’ll fuck you and your minions, too", removing a queer subtext.

Five tracks were released in 1995 on the Juvenilia EP and a bonus disc of Girly-Sound tracks was included with the physical release of Phair's 2010 album Funstyle. Additional tracks appeared on the reissue of Exile in Guyville.