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Phranc: I Enjoy Being a Girl (Island)

Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1989

'FOLKSINGER', THE opening cut on I Enjoy Being a Girl, instantly encapsulates everything that is right — as well as everything that is wrong — about the major-label debut of Phranc, who describes herself as an "all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer." A thinly disguised dig at recent MTV folk successes, 'Folksinger' is full of both hysterical asides and misguided assumptions.

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