Liz Phair got treated unfairly for this song by critics. Everyone was too cynical in the early 2000s, if this came out whenever poptimism was in vogue critics would love it. It’s an incredibly well done pop song. People just dished on it cause she was an indie darling and they weren’t expecting a genuine pop banger with a nearly perfect structure behind it. Literally everything in it just kinda works. Very unfair how they lambasted her so hard. Plus those guitars, man, that tone is incredible, and that ending chord progression. Just great
22 years later i feel like more people appreciate it for the masterpiece it is. Better than 99.9% of the garbage thats been on the radio for the past decade.
this song makes me happy as hell!!!!!!!!!! it reminds me of my girl friend and even through the times i was down this song really made me happy. Dating for almost eight months and this song has soo much meaning to me and to her too. I am so happy i heard it in pandora, i was actually not going to add it to my itunes but realized that it is a good song....a month later me and my girl friend started dating and i played it thousands of times .
MY GOD, how the years rush by. This song reopened a treasure chest filled with bright and exciting memories of teen years that I had stored away for so long in my mind. Love you, Liz!
I used to think this was avril lavigne when i was younger. Listening to it again, I realize that they sound nothing alike. I must have been like half deaf when I was a kid...
So I know this is a super old comment, but this song was produced by the people who produced Avril's first album, and that album was a major inspiration for the particular record from which Why Can't I is taken, hence the similarities.
God this reminds me of adolescent innocence...even if the lyrics are a bit more "mature" than I remember. Just watched 13 Going On 30 and the nostalgia feels are real.
I feel like I'm the only one who didn't take the "we're already wet and we're gonna go swimming" as dirty. yes, this song is about cheating but I looked at it as we've already dipped into [being with each other] so were just gonna dive right into [being with each other] now. This song is about two people that are clearly meant to be together cheating on their significant others. Not condoning the act, just saying not *everything* is dirty.
Lacy Provencher i till other day believed just the same someone had to break it to me followed by a lot of googling it is incredible and I been thinking it since when first heard the song when I was probs a preteen or so lol
My sister and I used to blast this song out in 2006 or 2007. We used to play this getting ready for school in the mornings. Then we moved in with my grandparents and we stopped listening to it. Now I have to get her back into this song.
Omg I remember this movie!!! Back when I was skinny and life was a breeze! "Back to you" By John Mayor is a great soundtrack on that movie too #winadatewithTodH.
I fell in love with Liz phair and 13 going on 30 long time ago, but this song is absolutely amazzzing the 50 millionth time. I remember when this movie came out, i was 10 years old. Funny how time flies, 15 years🙂🙂🙂🙂☺️☺️
whenever i hear this song i instantly think of my favorite scenes in 13 going on 30! 2:32 to be exact when she's at the house for the wedding.. awwwww... best movie ever!
OMG!! I think I remember hearing this song when I was on the school bus! I loved it! It was in 03' I was only 7 years old! Time flies ya'll! Oh and fun fact: This reached #10 on Pop radio charts and #7 on Hot Adult Contemporary charts respectively. =] It should have gone to #1 though let's be real =]
Brittany every comment on here is about how 13 going on 30 brought them here and I’m like “uhhh....does nobody remember How to Deal????” I love that movie so much!!!
This song is about a girl who can't be with the guy she has feelings for because they are both in other relationship, but they still hold hands and act like a couple even though they know it's wrong. if anyone was asking
Imagine loving someone so much you'd wanna risk everything for. Literally everything, u name it. I mean I wanna experience these feelings👀 Wanna fall in love genuinely 🤒
As if those are the only two options lol. Most people break up because it's not working for them, and don't break up when they really really love the other person. It's just my opinion that there is an extra layer of disloyalty and betrayal to leaving someone for someone else, so I don't consider it a 'better' breakup.
And no I have not been cheated on or cheated or left someone I was with for someone else. When my relationships haven't worked it's because "we" didn't work. I understand people can't help when they fall in love or with whom, even if they are with someone else so I 'get it'. I've had good friends who have been the cheater and are still good people, but is it a "better way" to leave somebody"? F****ck no, a million times no. Also in ANY relationship that is meaningful people will be devastated for a while after it's over. :p
I miss my childhood. The simplicity, the corny pop songs, the emo rock bands, the amazing teenage coming of age shows like BMW, Degrassi: The next generation ( WITH EMMA, PAIGE, SEAN, and MANNIE as the main characters. Cellphones that flip and have actual buttons. The catchy jingle commercials. Man these times are so underrated 😫. Take me back!
I watched 13 going on 30 again and this song brought me here. It's overwhelming that I can't stop missing something old and fantastic!!! Great movie and great song. : )
Ok so when I was younger I loved this song cuz I had no idea what it meant and it sounded cool. So I was hanging out at my (now ex) girlfriend's house and I said "Hey I just remembered a song that reminds me of you," because the only parts I remembered were the "why cant i breath whenever..." and the cute stuff like that. We were listening to the song and I was so embarrassed and she started laughing and said "is this your way of telling me you're cheating on me?" God I miss her so much
This song is chock full nostalgia for me as I was born in 1997 and I kept hearing this on the radio throughout my childhood it is one of my special childhood nostalgic songs I didn't know this was Liz Phair because I discovered her music this year I bought her album "Whitechocolatespaceegg" in my junior year of highschool at a record store that I was escaping to from my neighbors weddding party I ended up having fun anyways I didn't start listening to it until I started driving to school in my Senior year and realized how truly amazing Liz Phair is and she has become one of my Inspirations!!!!! and this song brings back special feelings and memories
I remember I listened to this song on max volume the night I met my husband.....I knew instantly he was the one....we are now married and have two kids together...this song makes me happy
It used to be my favorite song when I was little! I never realized what "We're already wet but we're gonna go swimming" meant until' I listened to it when I was older!
thumbs up if you are a young teen and that is why you are here... and that comment made you realize you just have to keep breathing, you will make it through.
this is how i feel about this one guy i am too afraid to talk to him. my friends tell me to go for it, i am in high school what have i got to lose. but i still get so nervous when he is around, i cant speak. its weird feeling this way, never really had this bad! :(
Strange that no one ever mentioned it, but you have the bridge of the song's lyrics written incorrectly. They should be: "High enough for you to make the wonder...where its going. High enough for you to pull me under...Something's growing out of this we can't control. Baby I'm dying" Just thought I would jump in about six years later :-)
1:45 lol, i just heard this song fr the first time in Pathmark today and had to listen to it again and i swear i didn't hear hear curse earlier haha :p
I remember starting 7th grade last September still grieving the whole summer over my ex boyfriend moving away and cheating on me... I remember every night waking up crying about him grabbing the box of sea island cotton scented tissues.. But then my boyfriend who was my best friend at that time sent the song to me and all my grief turned into ashes then we got together.. I love you so much, baby I hope we last forever
Haha I have to laugh b/c I used to listen to this song all the time when i was about 14/15 and never caught on to any of the little slips in the song that are kind of sexual; "we're already wet and we're about to go swimming." and "we havent f'ed yet but my heads spinning". In a weird way, i think i like it more now than i did in the past. :O
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Liz Phair got treated unfairly for this song by critics. Everyone was too cynical in the early 2000s, if this came out whenever poptimism was in vogue critics would love it. It’s an incredibly well done pop song. People just dished on it cause she was an indie darling and they weren’t expecting a genuine pop banger with a nearly perfect structure behind it. Literally everything in it just kinda works. Very unfair how they lambasted her so hard.
Plus those guitars, man, that tone is incredible, and that ending chord progression. Just great
22 years later i feel like more people appreciate it for the masterpiece it is. Better than 99.9% of the garbage thats been on the radio for the past decade.
I love how perfect this song was for 13 going on 30
yep i was gonna say that too. i love that movie. that's why i'm here actually.
I'm watching it right now! My favorite teenage-adult movie of all time!!!! 😄😄
EngleMun ikr!!!
EngleMun just got done watching that movie for the 9 thousandth time
EngleMun Sameee
13 going on 30 !!!!!!!
Yeeeaahh
I love the false 6/4 section at the end of the break.
All of a sudden, it catches up and it's back to 4/4. Very clever arrangement.
came here because of my fav chick flick movie 13 going on 30 :)) anyone here cuz of 13 going on 30? xD
cometogether4peace I'm pretty sure some people came here because of 13 Going On 30. (Whatever that movie is if it is a movie. XD)
Now that I'm older I understand what she meant by were already wet and were gonna go swimming lmfao....this song is so cute but dirty as fuck!
+shinee anime Name but one song by Liz Phair that is not.
Seriously. *One*.
Exactly
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I love 13 going on 30, it's a movie so magically romantic :D
brenda45362 was my favorite teenage movie 😔💔❤️
@@D-an-dc7bk mine too along with just my luck movie 😂
13 Going On 30 is described by the Media Access Group at WGBH, and is read by Kim Mai Guest.
This song is about cheating lol
Watching now
The 90's my childhood. Just brings back nostalgia.
Ty YuZekken its from '03
90's really??? lol
Ty YuZekken olk
90s are overrated
this song makes me happy as hell!!!!!!!!!! it reminds me of my girl friend and even through the times i was down this song really made me happy. Dating for almost eight months and this song has soo much meaning to me and to her too. I am so happy i heard it in pandora, i was actually not going to add it to my itunes but realized that it is a good song....a month later me and my girl friend started dating and i played it thousands of times .
11 years later. How you doing?
MY GOD, how the years rush by. This song reopened a treasure chest filled with bright and exciting memories of teen years that I had stored away for so long in my mind. Love you, Liz!
I used to think this was avril lavigne when i was younger. Listening to it again, I realize that they sound nothing alike. I must have been like half deaf when I was a kid...
So I know this is a super old comment, but this song was produced by the people who produced Avril's first album, and that album was a major inspiration for the particular record from which Why Can't I is taken, hence the similarities.
i always thought it was hillary duff lmao
God this reminds me of adolescent innocence...even if the lyrics are a bit more "mature" than I remember. Just watched 13 Going On 30 and the nostalgia feels are real.
My crush sent me some lines of this song today and now I can't stop listening.. Had forgotten all about this great song :)
Lucky you.
33Luger XD
well, those lyrics were not what I expected
+95klopez No one expected these lyrics LMFAO. My childhood is broken. ):
+iRawrDinosaurx3 somethings are better left unknown I guess
Hey I did a cover of this song come check it out on my channel pretty please!😙
Thishasbeen Jill same
Classic Liz Phair
A cheating anthem lol, but loved this growing up!
Who’s here in 2020, feeling nostalgic ?
13 going on 30 was my whole childhood❤️😭
me huhu
I remembered this song when it was in the movie "How to deal."
One of those Walmart early 2000's songs :D
Yeah... I wasn't expecting this. RIP my innocence >.
Grow up with this beautiful song it makes me think of that one special person I have not meant yet and gives me hope
Wow, when I was little I was like "This is so cute, she loves someone!" And now I'm like "Wha.. What???" Lol geez.
Right?!
Ashey Jimenez "We haven't fucked yet"
I know rite!🤷
Ashey Jimenez same
Same here...I really clearly was not listening properly
I feel like I'm the only one who didn't take the "we're already wet and we're gonna go swimming" as dirty. yes, this song is about cheating but I looked at it as we've already dipped into [being with each other] so were just gonna dive right into [being with each other] now. This song is about two people that are clearly meant to be together cheating on their significant others. Not condoning the act, just saying not *everything* is dirty.
Lacy Provencher i till other day believed just the same someone had to break it to me followed by a lot of googling it is incredible and I been thinking it since when first heard the song when I was probs a preteen or so lol
Why can I do you and I had to think about you it’s never their fault not
I didn't think of it that way. May be right
Lacy Provencher good song amiright
Yeah but the 2nd verse is something like "we haven't fucked yet"
My sister and I used to blast this song out in 2006 or 2007. We used to play this getting ready for school in the mornings. Then we moved in with my grandparents and we stopped listening to it. Now I have to get her back into this song.
This song was perfect for 13 going on 30!!! I can't stop listening to this song. I love the movie too. It's perfect!
2017 now still listening use to listen to this when I was much younger now almost 29
Wow, 29 going on 30 XD
I am 30. This is my teenage years right here
And I'm seeing your post in 2018 and I'm turning 29 lol
I like how nobody realizes this is about cheating
Miranda Huffman I do
same here!
Really
Miranda Huffman it's obvious. "Got a girlfriend, you say it isn't right, and I've got someone waiting too."
You are the last person to realize this is about cheating. Welcome to the club my n word
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton brought me here not 13 going on 30
cool i need to see that movie too.
13 going on 30 brought me here, not Win a Date with Tad Hamilton 🙄✌
I know I’m watching the movie now on HBO
Omg I remember this movie!!! Back when I was skinny and life was a breeze! "Back to you" By John Mayor is a great soundtrack on that movie too #winadatewithTodH.
I turned 60 and still loving it.
Happy bdayyyy
Young spirit
Lol
Almost 63 now♡
@@atiqkhan798 I am 26yo
I had a dream last night and this song was in it
😂
Everyone's from 13 going 30 I'm here from Win a Date with Tad Hamilton 😍 both are my fave movies though
Still listening in 2020 ❤️❤️
I fell in love with Liz phair and 13 going on 30 long time ago, but this song is absolutely amazzzing the 50 millionth time. I remember when this movie came out, i was 10 years old. Funny how time flies, 15 years🙂🙂🙂🙂☺️☺️
"Gonna take a while for this egg to hatch" some wisdom there. there's a time lag between the desire and getting it in real life
whenever i hear this song i instantly think of my favorite scenes in 13 going on 30! 2:32 to be exact when she's at the house for the wedding.. awwwww... best movie ever!
OMG!! I think I remember hearing this song when I was on the school bus! I loved it! It was in 03' I was only 7 years old! Time flies ya'll! Oh and fun fact: This reached #10 on Pop radio charts and #7 on Hot Adult Contemporary charts respectively. =]
It should have gone to #1 though let's be real =]
I was in jail when this song came out but every morning we would listen to it on tv
Fun fact: trump lost the election
I was in my junior year in high school when this song came out. I miss this kind of music
6 years later :)
cheating or not,i still love this song
this song kinda describes my life perfectly, "isn't the best part of breaking up finding someone else you can't get enough of" :D
my ex said this song was what she felt about me.. now whenever i hear it reminds me of her. god i miss her so much...
cjsaintrow you don't need her
How to deal, brought me to this song in 2003 and I still love it! -3
love thisss, memories from my old life. 13 going on 30 is epic
I love that movie
Shut up stupid
LaMarcus Auldridge What did she even do wrong?
@@mlpvideos995me too !
10/10 best ship
I remember this song off 13 going on 30! I love this song:)
Love this song good job Liz 👏💜💙💜👍
this song came up on my Pandora today.... I was like omg I haven't heard this forever!
Hannah Arocha Same!
Same here. I miss the good old music
What was the channel?
This song randomly came to my head this morning while eating breakfast lol... After all these years.
I heard this in the movie "How to Deal" and now I can't get it out of my head:)
Brittany every comment on here is about how 13 going on 30 brought them here and I’m like “uhhh....does nobody remember How to Deal????” I love that movie so much!!!
"We haven't fucked yet but my heads spinning" Love it!!!!!
2018 and still a banger
This song is about a girl who can't be with the guy she has feelings for because they are both in other relationship, but they still hold hands and act like a couple even though they know it's wrong. if anyone was asking
Imagine loving someone so much you'd wanna risk everything for. Literally everything, u name it. I mean I wanna experience these feelings👀
Wanna fall in love genuinely 🤒
After 12 years I'm being a 21 years old Bitch loves to listen it again and again 💜
Still listening to this in 2016
No. Lol
Haha
me too, only it's 2017 now
lol
i love this song..
This is a song for scumbags who end up leaving their partners for other people, but it has a great rhythm! ;)
Yes, this^^
No I most certainly do not agree with that.
As if those are the only two options lol. Most people break up because it's not working for them, and don't break up when they really really love the other person. It's just my opinion that there is an extra layer of disloyalty and betrayal to leaving someone for someone else, so I don't consider it a 'better' breakup.
And no I have not been cheated on or cheated or left someone I was with for someone else. When my relationships haven't worked it's because "we" didn't work. I understand people can't help when they fall in love or with whom, even if they are with someone else so I 'get it'. I've had good friends who have been the cheater and are still good people, but is it a "better way" to leave somebody"? F****ck no, a million times no. Also in ANY relationship that is meaningful people will be devastated for a while after it's over. :p
Lot of conflicting points there, so I'm just going to leave it at we must agree to disagree. :)
Cool movie... Love it !
I miss my childhood. The simplicity, the corny pop songs, the emo rock bands, the amazing teenage coming of age shows like BMW, Degrassi: The next generation ( WITH EMMA, PAIGE, SEAN, and MANNIE as the main characters. Cellphones that flip and have actual buttons. The catchy jingle commercials. Man these times are so underrated 😫. Take me back!
YES! And someone else who loves that era of degrassi 🥰 It was a time, huh?
@@chickennugget6233 shut up I just said the same fucking thing. Why does no one know this is the real DEGRASSI. Ever! 😂
I watched 13 going on 30 again and this song brought me here. It's overwhelming that I can't stop missing something old and fantastic!!! Great movie and great song. : )
I just watched 13 going 30!! Ang im inlove with all the soundtrack
As a metalhead this song throws down. Slaps harder then Will Smith.
Ok so when I was younger I loved this song cuz I had no idea what it meant and it sounded cool. So I was hanging out at my (now ex) girlfriend's house and I said "Hey I just remembered a song that reminds me of you," because the only parts I remembered were the "why cant i breath whenever..." and the cute stuff like that. We were listening to the song and I was so embarrassed and she started laughing and said "is this your way of telling me you're cheating on me?" God I miss her so much
This song is chock full nostalgia for me as I was born in 1997 and I kept hearing this on the radio throughout my childhood it is one of my special childhood nostalgic songs I didn't know this was Liz Phair because I discovered her music this year I bought her album "Whitechocolatespaceegg" in my junior year of highschool at a record store that I was escaping to from my neighbors weddding party I ended up having fun anyways I didn't start listening to it until I started driving to school in my Senior year and realized how truly amazing Liz Phair is and she has become one of my Inspirations!!!!! and this song brings back special feelings and memories
I remember I listened to this song on max volume the night I met my husband.....I knew instantly he was the one....we are now married and have two kids together...this song makes me happy
I LOVE that movie
I can't be the only one who thought Sheryl Crow sang this song
Thought it was avril
It used to be my favorite song when I was little! I never realized what "We're already wet but we're gonna go swimming" meant until' I listened to it when I was older!
there are plenty of songs with "mature" lyrics i honestly don't know why this song got so lost in time purely because of a few words...it's brilliant.
my favorite part is: Why can't I breath whenever I think about you. Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you!
love the song, hate the lyrics. God, never did i know how dirty this is, but still love it though.
I know I first heard it when I was little and I just started listening to it again and I am just like that's what the words were
Hahaha. Same 😣
Lyrics are the best part
Nikka please.
This is her most pg song. Listen to her song "flower"😹😹
Love this..a girl dedicated it to me and i cant stop listening
So many throwbacks
Holy cow, I haven't heard this song in FOREVER.
thumbs up if you are a young teen and that is why you are here... and that comment made you realize you just have to keep breathing, you will make it through.
crazy my middle school /Hugh school memories now that I'm 28 how I miss thoses days
You went to a Hugh School?
Violeta bravo I heard this when I was 18 in 2003
Wow, people thinking this is "dirty", listen to her song Flower, NOW that's dirty. This is just good catchy pop rock
Flower is dirty but good :3 Edit: Sorry for responding to such an old comment
No that's okay, I do that all the time
"I'd love for you to pull me under,somethin's growin'" is the dirtiest line.
+Chan Leprestre Nice profile picture!
MrEthan520 Anonymous Thanks!
this is how i feel about this one guy i am too afraid to talk to him. my friends tell me to go for it, i am in high school what have i got to lose. but i still get so nervous when he is around, i cant speak. its weird feeling this way, never really had this bad! :(
this song may have been 13 Going on 30, but it fit best in How to Deal :D
One of my guilty pleasures. It reeks so bad of 2000's Avril Lavine Hot Topic vibes... Might actually be part of why I like it so much...
Dedicated to my hubby layne staley I truly love u. I miss u everyday my angel
Strange that no one ever mentioned it, but you have the bridge of the song's lyrics written incorrectly. They should be:
"High enough for you to make the wonder...where its going. High enough for you to pull me under...Something's growing out of this we can't control. Baby I'm dying"
Just thought I would jump in about six years later :-)
Right in the childhood.
singing out loud to this rn 😂❤
1:45 lol, i just heard this song fr the first time in Pathmark today and had to listen to it again and i swear i didn't hear hear curse earlier haha :p
Heard this song recently and was like wait what did she just say fk... had to confirm lol
This song is so underrated
luv this song...... also luv the movie 13 going on to 30
I remember starting 7th grade last September still grieving the whole summer over my ex boyfriend moving away and cheating on me... I remember every night waking up crying about him grabbing the box of sea island cotton scented tissues.. But then my boyfriend who was my best friend at that time sent the song to me and all my grief turned into ashes then we got together.. I love you so much, baby I hope we last forever
Wow that sounds beautiful!
Are you
are you?
Are you guys still together?
Are you?
This song describes my exact situation rn :(
Breathing is vital for Hamon users.
always reminds me of 13 going on 30 love tht movie! great video :)
Yesss!!! Jus turned 30 july 29th guys!!! 13 goin 30 was good!!!!
I'm here in 2019 reading comments about 13 Going On 30 I'm like I feel like I knew this before that lol
Haha I have to laugh b/c I used to listen to this song all the time when i was about 14/15 and never caught on to any of the little slips in the song that are kind of sexual; "we're already wet and we're about to go swimming." and "we havent f'ed yet but my heads spinning". In a weird way, i think i like it more now than i did in the past. :O
VERY UNDERRATED SONG
THANK GOD FOR THE PEOPLE WHO POSTED THAT IT WAS FROM 13 GOING ON 30, I WAS TRYING SO HARD TO REMEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!! Love that movie!!!:'D
Anyone listening April, 2021 or in 2021 in general?? I am listening Monday, April 26th, 2021.
I should have picked up when they had this song as a single on a CD at a local shop
GOD THIS SONG. NNYAAHHH.
C'mon everybody lets go down to Nostalgia Lane.
13 going on 30=P like the song
I literally thought this whole time she was saying "we're having fun" lol omg
Who's here because this song is great and not from 13 going on 30?
Who else is watching in 2017?
THIS SONG SOUNDS UNREAL, FOR THE LIZ. 👸🤴👰🤵 QUEEN ISABELLA MADONNA
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