Soraia epitomizes raw power, unrelenting energy, chaos, and freedom. 'Bad Reputation,' a documentary about Jett's life, premiered to critical acclaim at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and is now available for streaming. After two COVID-19 postponements, the group will return to the road in summer 2022 for The Stadium Tour with Def Leppard, Motley Crue and Poison. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts continue touring the globe with headlining shows alongside fellow rock legends like The Who, Green Day, Heart, and Foo Fighters. 40 years later, Blackheart is a thriving entertainment company producing music, film and television, and continues to champion emerging bands. After forming her band the Blackhearts in 1979, with whom Jett has become a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, she has had eight platinum and gold albums and nine Top 40 singles, including the classics "Bad Reputation," "I Love Rock 'N' Roll," "I Hate Myself For Loving You," and "Crimson and Clover." With a career that has spanned music, film, television, Broadway, and humanitarianism, Joan Jett remains a potent force and inspiration to generations of fans worldwide.Īs a producer, she has overseen seminal albums by Bikini Kill, and the Germs' LA punk masterpiece 'GI.' Jett and co-founder Kenny Laguna (her longtime producer and music partner) founded Blackheart from the trunk of Kenny's Cadillac after countless rejections from no less than 23 labels. This band are untainted by the excesses of any of that eras downsides but elevated by the perennial ease of being a bit punk, a bit pop, a lot cool… and no one ever criticizes Joan Jett And the Blackhearts.Joan Jett grew up during a time when rock 'n' roll was off limits to girls and women, but as a teenager, she promptly blew the door to the boys' club right off its hinges. 1988 made them contemporary’s of The Cult, Guns N’ Roses and The Sisters Of Mercy. The song is one of the hidden gems of it’s era. It’s as precision tooled as the layers of synth and the smoothed out low end riff. The ‘Ow’ before the solo so casually tossed out there it makes the whole thing look incidental. Those ‘Uhs’ that punctuate the riffs from the verses are pure rock and roll theater. She hangs with Alice, she fills in for Kurt, she toasts Lemmy and she still slays live. Joan Jett is still the coolest of the cool.
This is a teen anthem for the not to be messed with. That slide guitar riff and that down beat delivery. She was the coolest rock star I’d ever seen. Joan’s 1988 album Up Your Alley found it’s way into my record collection pretty close to it’s release. This was the era ex-Runaways band mate Lita Ford was making 80’s heavy metal ballads with Ozzy Osbourne and getting her Deadly Kissed*. “Hey Jack, it’s a fact they’re talkin’ in town I turn my back and you’re messin’ around I’m not really jealous, don’t like lookin’ like a clown”Īfter The Runaways, after Bad Reputation, Joan had already had some hits in her own right (including the megahit I Love Rock And Roll). She’s beaming this down from Planet Cool for the rest of us to help us get through our own messy stuff. The idea that anyone would stand Joan Jett up is a scientific impossibility. “Midnight getting uptight but where are you? You said you’d meet me but it’s quarter to two”
It’s slow and low and sliding around like unsecured ballast in a small fishing boat’s galley during a storm. And yet the real killer bit is the guita… is that a guitar? Is that just a guitar? Is that a synth set to Bassoon brass FX played through a guitar? Why does that axe sound so horney? The effects of Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco echoing up through the decades and into 1988. Those slowed down 70’s glam rock drums and hand claps are pure glitter scene. How can something so 80’s, so smoothed off and over produced sound so gutteral?
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