Many people hear I love Rock and Roll and immediately start to sing along, many people hear I love rock and Roll and only hear a cliché hit, many hear it and hear a party rock song, and many hear a rock and roll classic.
Some people think Joan Jett wrote this song; some people love to say The Arrows wrote it; some people love to say the original is better, and other people know Joan Jett’s version is one of the best covers ever.
Usually, I think everything is subjective and there is no objectivity when it comes to art, but in this case I have to say Joan Jett’s version of this song kicks the original in the ass and then it shreds it to pieces to eat it for breakfast.
The Arrows version is a typically song about a man picking up a girl and reaffirming the role of men in Rock and Roll music. It’s one more in a pile of hundreds of songs about that, too many to list. The music is sexy and cool but similar to many other songs around at that time.
Joan Jett, turned the song around, musically made it more straightforward, more rock and roll more basic and punk, she made it a classic from the first time she sung it.
But what really made it an awesome song was Joan Jett with an honest naiveté, her attitude and the intention with which she sung, the fact that a woman was so naturally and swagerlly wanting to pick up a guy, she was not trying to be sexy, she was not making herself available for the guy, she was owning her sexuality and going for it.
Rock and Roll was also a man’s world, a woman, playing guitar, owning her sexuality and making a statement the she loves rock and roll broke the status quo, because it never sounded fake, she was not groupie, she was not loving rock and roll because her boyfriend loved rock and roll. She did loved Rock and Roll and it was a simple statement but also, a rebellious statement for a girl at the time. She was her own persona; she was confident, androgynous, simple and authentic.
It was something different; something so much needed in commercial music, especially for rock and roll, a masculine and androgynous energy in a woman. That is why it struck a chord with the world, girls wanted to be her and boys wanted to be with her, the world needed that kind of energy and that song, sung so genuinely by Joan Jett captured it perfectly.
The song never sounded average, or anything other than honest,and cool.
But The story behind “I Love Rock and Roll” becoming a hit is one of the greatest rock and roll stories ever.
It is a story of perseverance, following your dreams, being saved by music and believing in yourself. It is a story about rock and roll.
Nobody looked twice to the song, not even The Arrows; they released the song as a B-side to other single. And although it did had a little success in the U.K. It was a song meant to be forgotten.
But it wasn’t, Joan Jett touring with The Runaways in the U.K was watching TV one day and saw the Arrows play “I Love Rock and Roll” on a show, she immediately identified with the song and bought the single (The song was a B-side to other song), she wanted to cover that song as soon as she heard it, so she brought it to The Runaways but they decided they didn’t want to cover it so she kept the song in her back pocket, sometimes she would play that song to her friends and random people, but they all though it was a corny and too simple, nobody really believed in that song.
Until The Runaways broke up and Joan was devastated, she felt the band was her whole life, but also felt disillusioned by the whole Rock and Roll business, she thought the music industry was going to be more accepting of girls playing rock and roll, but instead they were made fun of and the press didn’t even hear the music, they were too busy trying to beat them up and make them feel bad for wanting to do something that girls weren’t supposed to do.
Joan felt lost and started to drink a lot and to take too many drugs, she was a in a pretty bad shape, emotionally, until she met the right people, people from the industry who believed in her, she then was able record some songs with help from the sex pistols, she recorded 3 songs, one of them of course was, I Love Rock and Roll.
After a while she moved to NY and made a solo record, which 23 record labels rejected saying there was no place for an artist like her in the business, maybe it would be better if she dressed differently and lose the guitar, so she formed Blackheart Records and started selling her own records at the end of every gig.
Eventually some label took notice of how many records they were selling and finally reissued the record with the name of Bad Reputation, it had success and Joan made another record, this time and with some money, she decided to do “I Love Rock and Roll” again, so re-recorded it with her band The Blackhearts and included it in the new record, this record broke and “I Love Rock and Roll” became a classic, the record sold more than 10 million copies and stayed number one for several weeks, to this day I bet there is no one country where I Love Rock and Roll is not played at least one time in the Rock radio stations everyday.
I think this is a beautiful story of how Joan Jett believed in a song and pushed it until she proved she was right, this song represents her love for rock and roll, her perseverance and her sexual energy, this song represents her.
At the end of the day, she loves rock and roll and we love HER.
For more information on the production of the Album “I Love Rock and Roll” check out this LINK .
I don’t get how an organization called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can have the word Rock and Roll in it and don’t have a room called “Joan Jett” let alone don’t have Joan Jett in her list of inductees from day 1.
Because Joan Jett is Rock and Roll embodied. In this post I will name some reasons why her name should be all over every Rock Museum on the planet.
I will forget how hot and sexy Joan Jett is because that would count for at least 10 reasons more, although Rock and Roll should always be hot and sexy.
I’ll also forget about the millions of records she’s sold, about all the platinum and gold albums she has, about all of her top ten songs, about how many times she’s toured the world and how all of her shows are sold out. I’ll forget about everything that can be accountable and I’ll go straight to what really matters about Rock and Roll.
1. JOAN JETT was Joan Jett before she was Joan Jett Joan Marie Larkin was an outsider in school, she was shy, she was nice and friendly, but anyone could sense she had an internal flame waiting to set a big fire and also an incredible sense of calm and deepness about her, something that could attract anyone, the mark of a rockstar.
That is why when Joan at 15 in Rodney Bigenheimer’s English Disco, shy and gutsy as she was, was a role model for every teen girl at the club and everyone wanted to be her friend or to be just like her.
2. THE QUEENS OF NOISE
At 15 Joan Jett wanted to form an all-girl band and at 16, she did.
At first the band was a 3 piece (Then they became 5 an d then 4), they were celebrities in the teen club rock and roll L.A scene and in less than a year The Runaways toured the world more more than once, made 4 studio albums, 1 live album, several bootlegs and became one of the most influential bands of the 70’s, the starters of the upcoming L.A Punk Scene and icons in their own right, serving as reference to many bands today.
Joan Jett was the heart of The Runaways, she was there from the first to the last day, she wrote the songs, created the cool riffs, and sang a lot of the songs, “The Runaways” was Joan Jett’s baby.
3. THE BLACKHEARTS
After the Runaways broke up, Joan Jett was depressed and felt really lost, her baby was dead and nobody else seemed to believe in her, she felt betrayed and a failure, she gave herself to parties, drugs and alcohol, she felt crushed. She was nothing without Rock and Roll, she hit rock bottom but eventually she decided to form another band, so she formed The Blackhearts and played every club she could play. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts continue to play to this day and they have never, ever stopped.
They created an unique style that has influenced the shape of music today and it would be fair to say that Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are a band so Rock and Roll that year after year reminds us how awesome and important Rock and Roll is, they are always lighting the flame.
They are a“ Three-chord straight up rock ‘n’ roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs” as she would say.
It would be really hard to listen to The Blackhearts without ending with a huge smile on your face and the eagerness to go out and passionately do anything you love doing.
4. SHE FOUGHT THE LAW AND SHE WON. The Runaways sometimes were treated really bad because they were girls, they had to take one for the team, people focused on their looks, their sexuality and thought they couldn’t play because they were teen girls, but they fought back and they showed the world they were really good and a really tight rock and roll band, opening the doors for many to come.
The same happened after Joan left the Runaways, no record company wanted to deal with her and she received 23 rejection letters, that is why she decided to form her own record label, so she can release her own record and that record was a big hit selling millions and millions of copies worldwide.
Blackheart Records is now one of the oldest independent labels there is, exists even to this day and keeps launching the careers of many bands.
5. I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL Joan Jett is a fan of music; she is not a rockstar thinking she is above being a fan anymore. She picked up a guitar because she wanted to make “those sounds” the sound of a mean rhythm guitar, the sound on Led Zeppelin, T.Rex and Black Sabbath records.
She is still a rock and roll fan, she even hosted her own radio show on Little Steven’s Underground Garage, a show called The Radio Revolution, that when on many years.
Joan Jett loves music and she has a very particular taste, she knows when she likes something, she always finds new bands, she supports them and embraces them. She’s also played with many of her favorite bands always with a big and humble smile on her face.
6. FOR ALL THE BLACK HEARTS
She has supported and inspired countless bands, from The Germs to Miley Cyrus, From Bikini Kill to the Foo Fighters. From The Go-Go’s to Brody Dalle. Many bands started because of Joan Jett, many girls and boys around the world learned how to play the guitar because of Joan Jett.
With The Runaways she travelled to England and became enamored with the punk scene there, when she came back to L.A she told everybody what she saw.
She pretty much connected the UK punk scene with the L.A scene back in the 70’s.
Without Joan Jett many great band wouldn’t exist.
7. I’M IN LOVE WITH JOAN JETT
To know her is to love her, every band she has played with has only nice things to say about her and her band, The Who, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, X, Blondie, Foo Fighters, Social Distortion, Green Day, ZZ Top, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, etc. Too many to list.
Joan Jett is so cool, so down to earth, so straight forward, so shy yet so out there, so nice, so sexy, so powerful and so humble, so in love with rock and roll, that it’s hard for any rock fan not to lover.
8. THE QUEEN OF FASHION
Joan Jett is a fashion icon. She’s always had a unique sense of style and uses her image as an expression of herself, she doesn’t care about any trend, she IS the trend.
Joan Jett pretty much brought the UK punk style to L.A in her own version, that style became the Joan Jett style around the world, so unique, so Rock ad Roll that through the years she has always been the reference of the Rock woman. She has inspired many designers, many trends were based on her style, there’s even a store (Hot Topic) that could easily be all clothes taken from Joan Jett’s wardrobe.
Since 1976 to 2014 there have been people dressed as Joan Jett and lines of clothes based on Joan Jett.
So it was an obvious step for her to collaborate with a designer to create her own line of clothes, in 2014.
9. PRODUCER When Joan Jett was 21 she was asked by her fans Darby Crash and Pat Smear to produce the record of their band “The Germs”, she had never produced a record before, but she manage to capture the essence of the band making them listenable enough without losing a bit of the Germs spirit, that record became on of the most iconic punk records ever.
Since then Joan Jett has produced some other iconic records very successfully, like Bikini Kill’s Rebel Girl.
10. THE GUITAR
Anything Joan Jett does has a big stamp with her name on it. Joan Jett is the queen of rhythm crunch; she has her own style, simple chords, space between strums, no effects, just pure and simple on your face rhythm guitar. Joan is on Rolling Stones 100 greatest guitar players of all times and as they describe it, her playing is “no frills, all heart, no fucking around”.
When Joan plays all you wanna do is grab a guitar and pretend you are a rockstar, she exudes Rock and Roll when she plays it, she grabs it like it is an extension of herself, like she is having sex with it, like she once said “Pussy to the wood, fuck your guitar!!” Gibson made 2 Joan Jett signature models in 2010, those models sold like hot bread.
11. THE VOICE
If Rock and Roll had a voice it had to be Joan Jett, in fact she IS Rock and Roll’s voice, so sweet, so tough, so full of passion, all rhythm, all love, all sex, all going for it.
When Joan sings a song she wrote you can feel her baring her skin, you can feel every emotion in the roughest way possible, she never oversings, she subtlety takes the song where they wanna go and creates a new level of comfort and urge.
Joan Jett’s voice is hard to explain, because there are so many layers to her voice, but I could say that when Joan Jett sings a song whether she wrote it or not, she owns it. Every song is a virgin until Joan Jett sings it.
Nobody sings like Joan Jett.
12. THE ACTIVIST
Joan Jett has a big heart, she cares about the world and has a huge inner world that her beautiful eyes can’t help to express, Joan Jett exudes sex because she owns her sexuality she is always in control, she is extremely intelligent, she is very spiritual, she is a feminist, she cares about animals, she cares about politics, about connection. She speaks up but she does not judge, she cares about the human kind, she includes everyone.
Joan helps many causes, too many to list, she gives a lot of money to different charities but never speaks about it; she is also always there to support a good cause with her presence.
Joan Jett is an awesome human being that is willing to do anything to express her thoughts without being preachy or annoying. Her whole life is a political statement; her guitar could the front cover of a feminist book and all that is reflected in her songs.
Her message is in all of her songs, DIY, be yourself, don’t be ashamed, don’t judge, don’t discriminate, embrace all ages, al sexes, all sexual preferences, go vote, be sexual, support equality, fight for your rights, be a beautiful underdog.
Joan Jett has changed the lives of thousands of people around the world through Rock and Roll
13. THE SONGS A Joan Jett’s song is pretty recognizable in the best way possible, crunchy guitars, big choruses, handclaps, fun, passion, a killer drum and one of the best rock and roll vocals you will ever hear.
Yet, The Blackhearts, have a huge catalogue of songs that are very different from each others, you can hear killer covers (just like in the old days of Rock and Roll), You can hear Iconic and groundbreaking songs that are anthems like “Bad Reputation”, power ballads, sexual songs, there’s a song for every feeling, for every thought.
I think The Blackhearts are a perfect example of a Rock and Roll band that transcends time. They resemble anything that is pure and simple Rock and Roll, from 1955 to 2014. They are a little Punk, a little Metal, a little Glam, a little Hard Rock, a little pop rock and a little grunge. The Blackhearts are Chuck Berry meets the Ramones, The Rolling Stones meets Sweet, T.Rex meets Nirvana.
Joan Jett songs are part of Rock and Roll history, we’ve all dance to her songs, we’ve all sang along. Some songs are to have fun, some are to turn you on, some are to search your soul, they are all to sweat your heart out. It doesn’t matter if you are 12 or you are 78, you will definitely like Joan Jett’s songs.
14. HER SCENE IS ROCK AND ROLL The Blackhearts are a Rock and Roll band, they transcend any sub-genre, they are part of the punk scene, but the Metal Scene embraces them, they are a little Glam but they are considered Hard Rock. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts are a perfect example of a modern Pure Rock and Roll band.
Joan Jett should be in any Rock and Roll book.
If you talk about women in rock, if you talk about the L.A Rock scene, if you talk about punk, if you talk about UK Punk, if you talk about CBGB’s, if you talk about Glam, If you talk about Rodney on the Roq, if you talk about the Riot Grrl movement, if you talk about independent music, if you talk about fashion, if you talk about underground, if you talk about the 70’s, the 80’s, the 90’s, 00’s, and if you talk about today, you have to mention Joan Jett.
Joan Jett plays stadiums and plays clubs, plays fairs and plays theaters, she doesn’t care, although she prefers small venues , she just want to play, she just wants to sweat and connect with people, she has never stopped playing since 1975.
15. ROCK AND ROLL IS HUMBLE
I think humbleness is the big lost value of the modern world, when someone exudes humbleness, they exude light and that is exactly what makes Joan Jett so attractive, she is very humble, very grateful, she doesn’t have to say she is a rockstar, that she is awesome, that she is an Icon, a legend, her light makes that for her (and also, everyone else do that for her).
Joan is always there for her fans, she always does meet and greets, she will always sign your stuff, she looks the crowd in the eye and there are a million stories about how she’s done very big and cool things for her fans.
When she plays you can feel her passion and joy and how she doesn’t take anything for granted, how her soul is all rock and roll. She’s never lost the innocence about it, after all these years she’s not cynical and she is never pretentious, and her work is a sign of that. she is just humble, she is just light.
16. JOAN JETT IS AN ICON
It’s hard to imagine a world without Joan Jett in it. It would be a sad world. Joan Jett is so much part of today culture that sometimes we forget about her, but the truth is she is in every kid loving rock and roll, in every person with a leather jacket, in every band playing at some club, in every woman picking up an instrument, in every rock song, in every rock designer. Joan Jett is an Icon, is a living legend, is a role model. Joan Jett is always at the top of her career, at the top of everything even 40 years after she started, she is not an old rocker, she is as fresh and effective as she was in 1982. She keeps releasing cool music, keeps innovating, keeps playing, she has never stopped playing. This year she’s been on countless T.V shows, done 2 movies, appeared on the Foo Fighters documentary series, received 3 legendary awards, a tribute has been done in her name by amazing and well known rockstars, she’s been trending topic at least 4 times on twitter, etc.
There is no one type of people who like Joan Jett, her fans are from different cultures, all ages, all sexes, Joan Jett is for everyone.
She is not part of Rock and Roll, Joan Jett IS Rock and Roll.
The Tight One Joan Jett is like Rock and Roll, she is never in fashion but she is always the trend, she is always everywhere, Joan Jett is always creating, collaborating, taking a cause, expressing opinions, mindlessly creating fashion, acting, etc. She is always demonstrating that you can live your life doing whatever, but basically Joan Jett is always playing live somewhere and she is always playing new songs.
That is why Joan Jett never made a comeback, because she never left, not even for a little bit.
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts latest album is called Unvarnished Every Joan Jett album’s been especial and unique, great riffs and pure and straight rock and roll, music full of attitude and rock and roll bliss, but always fresh and with an old fashion timelessness that always evolves.
Unvarnished sounds classic and present, it has the Joan Jett stamp all over and yet it manages to sound totally different from previous albums.
The record has a strong punk rock sound that is played mind-blowingly tight, every song is beautifully connected to the next and it actually sounds really really tight, Thommy Price does an excellent job on drums creating the perfect heartbeat to the album.
The songs are short, catchy, tight, upbeat and fun, but they still have a sense of reflection and philosophical deepness about them. I could write a whole essay on how perfect Joan’s vocals are in this record, perfect pitch, perfect tone, perfect interpretation, to me these are one of her greatest vocals ever.
ANY WEATHER
This is a really beat-driven fun song that makes you wanna dance. Great piano, great beat. The Intro is great and it’s and uplifting rock and roll song. Great starter, Great single. Any weather is a cool inspirational rock and roll song that automatically sets the mood on this record.
Joan wrote the music with Dave Grohl in his 606 studio, Dave also played several instruments on this track.
TMI
“Why the need to share every single move you make?” is a question that I have asked myself many times and TMI resonates exactly with this thought. Not in a judgmental way but in a cathartic rock and roll way of expressing “Why the need?!” The lyrics are tight and perfect, the chorus is really catchy, the riff is absolutely amazing, so much that it gives you the need to pick up a guitar and play, a common feeling with this record.
SOULMATES TO STRANGERS
Maybe one of the bests songs on the album, great music and very nostalgic and relatable lyrics that make you wanna sing really loud. The coolest thing about the song is that it doesn’t take itself too serious, it has a sense of wittiness that makes great music and lyrics… The song is played perfectly, a lesson on how every rock and roll song should sound like. Joan Jett wrote this song with Laura Jane Grace from the punk band “Against me” and it turned out amazing.
MAKE IT BACK
This one is a personal favorite, a beautiful punky – driven song that will never fail to put you in a really good mood. Great vocals and really cool guitar solo. The song has a sense of air about it that feels great; not much different from standing up in a Cadillac convertible that goes a 100 miles an hour with your eyes closed. I recommend this song for every fucked up situation, it will never fail on making you feel better.
It doesn’t get much better than hearing Joan Jett and her perfect rock and roll voice saying : “So what else can I sayYou deal with what you’re givenAnd I’m fighting everydayI’m loving and I’m living”
HARD TO GROW UP
This is a truly honest and powerful song that shows nothing but sincerity. There is something beautiful and very punk rock about the idea of never growing up, there is something divine about that idea, but we have built a society of rules and regulations and taking responsibility, this dichotomy makes it difficult to stay in the divine while taking responsibility of how we are supposed to behave, artists are more in contact with their inner child, more in contact with the divine, they give in in order to create, making a living of giving themselves to exploration and intuition, to their inner child in order to create magic in the purest possible way.
Joan Jett as an artist, as a rock star, as a soul given to rock and roll, shares this bittersweet experience of having to grow up in this beautiful song. The last words of the song are simply amazing and resume the feeling of having just to “show up” as an adult.
FRAGILE
You can feel this song comes straight from the heart, a wounded heart, that reflects on their life. What is cool about this song is that you can subtly sense a lot of reflections on life, death and philosophy in it but without sounding heavy or too dense. I find it really ground breaking and revolutionary to hear a woman saying, “Momentary pleasure really did me in”. Really cool change of tempos on the songs. The structure of the song is different from others and has it’s own cool logic.
Great string and piano solo, that I find mind-blowing, the string solo feels really personal like a tribute to Joan’s mother who passed away. Joan’s screams at the end of the song are spot on.
REALITY MENTALITY
This is without a doubt my favorite song of the album; it’s a fun song with really serious and relevant lyrics that are full of wit. I feel like all the words are meant to be together, like it was a song waiting to be written, there are great analogies and the song itself expresses perfectly the trivialization of media and news and how a lot of us feel about it. It is a very powerful and intelligent song, it’s sung with balls and guts and it shows the greatness and power of Joan’s mature, sexy, raspy and perfect-pitched voice.
The song has also a great beat and an incredible Wah Wah guitar solo accompanied by a very cool riff. This has to be one of the best Joan Jett songs of all time, you just have to hear her sing “It’s demeaning, needs deep cleaning” to realize it.
BAD AS WE CAN BE
A sexy song, classic Joan Jett and very rock and roll. A really danceable tune, would sound great on any rock and roll club. This is a really fun song, more than that it is a very hot song. Joan Jett trying to pick someone up (Or showing us sarcastically how to pick up a girl), it doesn’t get any hotter than that, except for Joan making reference to the tattoos on her arm or Joan telling someone to “Get the cuffs”. The bridge of this song is one of my favorites parts of the whole album, really cool, upbeat, sexy and somehow very different from everything Joan Jett. The song also has one of the best solos of the album.
DIFFERENT
This one has a cool riff and a nice beat, really cool intro and outro of the song with the cowbell and the drums , catchy chorus, it makes you want to sing along. The song is about being different in a world that judges, with a “it’s cool to be different and I don’t give a damn” attitude, a subject not uncommon to Joan Jett (Bad Reputation, Misunderstood, etc.) This is one of my least favorite songs from the album, but it’s definitely a nice song.
EVERYBODY NEEDS A HERO
This song is one of the best album closers that I have ever heard, after all the upbeat and punky music, this song is a great closure. It is totally different from the whole album, yet it fits perfect. Slow and subtle music and Joan’s raspy New York voice whispering in your ear. This song has a great vocal performance and it is about needing someone, about connection (friends, lovers, heroes, etc.) just the need for connection.
*I Know What I Know(Bonus track)
Really nice intro and great sounding guitars. I like this song very much and I think it resumes the whole album, an album that has no judgments but straight and forward opinions and a little baring of the soul. This song reflects and explains that. I think it should have been included in the original release.
*Seriously (Bonus track)
This one is my least favorite song of Unvarnished, although I find some interesting vocals that I like, I understand why it was left out. I would dedicate this song to all the posers out there.
Unvarnished is the tightest Joan Jett album ever, a great Rock and Roll album with no embellishments. . It is for the pure of heart and it will make you wanna stand up and dance singing your lungs out and wanting to desperately pick up a guitar and play all the amazing riffs…On top of all that, this record has one of the greatest straight Rock and Roll vocals I’ve heard.
Alanis Morissette and Joan Jett… it’s seems like they have nothing in common.
You could say Alanis’ sound is more pop, her songs are more dense or lyrically inclined, while Joan Jett IS Rock and Roll, and her songs are a little bit more musically inclined. You could say Alanis is from the 90’s and Joan is from the 80’s, you can say a lot of things, maybe you like one of them and hate the other one, and maybe you can say how dare do I compare one with the other, maybe you love them both too or maybe you hate them both.
The truth is that they are in fact opposites that are alike, somehow I found a lot of similarities between them that have very little to do with their sound.
To start, I love them both and that is the first thing they have in common to me. They both are really sensitive souls, they have a great sense of spirituality and similar spiritual beliefs that take from every religion and philosophies that can be reflected in their tattoos. They are very aware of their souls and who they want to be.
Joan and Alanis found their calling at a very young age and stood by it working their asses off to achieve their own unique version of success, which was to make music they loved and share it.
They are unapologetic in their music, they don’t mind fully expressing themselves in their songs, they are feminist by default because they both broke every mold of what a woman should be and they keep doing it ‘till this day, without being too precious about it, just by being themselves and expressing it.
They received a lot of backlash from the media and close-minded people when they first came out and stood stoic doing what they loved, they opened up a lot of doors for women wanting to express themselves through music and opened up the media to women with a powerful and not so subtle sound and lyrics.
They have exceptionally unique voices that won’t be found anywhere else; voices that can express whatever they want and they know how to use perfectly. They don’t use their voices as an ornament to the song, they express the song with their voices and that makes them both rough and full of attitude.
They are very amazing and unique writers, they are sexual, humble, down to earth, vegan, into yoga, they are well versed, brave, they take responsibility for anything that happened to them, they are extremely intelligent and many other things; there are also many things in which they differ, but even those differences makes them somehow similar because there is a force they have behind everything they do and that is passion.
So to me they are extremely passionate about what they do, the subjects in their lyrics, the way they sing, the way they write and everything they do…that makes their music so pure and simple.
Alanis Morissette y Joan Jett… parece que no tienen nada en común. Se podría decir que el sonido de Alanis es más pop, que sus canciones son más densas o se inclinan por el lado del texto; mientras que Joan Jett ES Rock and Roll, y sus canciones están más inclinadas al lado musical. Se podría decir que Alanis es de los 90’s y Joan de los 80´s, se podrían decir muchas más cosas. De repente te gusta una de las dos y odias a la otra, o de repente me podrías decir cómo me atrevo a compararlas, quizás te encantan las dos o de repente las odias a las dos.
La verdad es que son tan diferentemente parecidas, de alguna manera he encontrado muchas similitudes entre ellas que poco tiene que ver con su música.
Para empezar, las amo a las dos y eso es lo primero que tienen en común para mí. Las dos son almas sensibles, ambas tienen un gran sentido de espiritualidad y creencias espirituales similares, tomadas de todas las religiones y filosofías y pueden ver plasmadas en sus tatuajes. Ambas son conscientes de sus almas y quiénes quieren ser.
Joan y Alanis descubrieron su vocación a una temprana edad y trabajaron mucho hasta alcanzar su propia visión del éxito, que es hacer y compartir la música que aman.
Las dos hacen música sin complejos ni remordimientos, no les importa expresarse abiertamente en sus canciones, son feministas por defecto ya que ambas rompieron el molde de lo que la mujer debe ser y continúan haciéndolo hasta el día de hoy, sin pretensiones, siendo ellas mismas y expresándolo.
Las dos han recibido reacciones negativas de los medios y de personas de mente cerrada cuando recién aparecieron, sin embargo, mantuvieron una posición estoica haciendo lo que aman. Con letras y música poderosas –y no tan sutiles- le han abierto muchas puertas a otras mujeres que quieren expresarse a través de la música y así han creado un espacio en los medios para mujeres con sonidos crudos.
Tienen voces excepcionalmente únicas que no se pueden encontrar en ningún otro sitio, voces que pueden expresar lo que quieran y que ambas saben usar perfectamente. No usan sus voces como adornos en una canción, más bien expresan la canción con sus voces lo cual las hace crudas y llenas de actitud.
Son compositoras geniales y únicas, son sexuales, humildes, centradas, veganas, hacen yoga, saben lo que dicen y cómo lo dicen, valientes, consecuentes en cualquier cosa que les pase, son extremadamente inteligentes y muchas cosas más; también hay muchas otras cosas en las que se diferencian, pero incluso esas diferencias las hace similares, porque hay una fuerza detrás de todo lo que hacen y esa fuerza es la pasión.
Para mí, las dos son extremadamente apasionadas en lo que hacen, los temas de sus canciones, la forma en la cantan, la manera en la que escriben y todo lo que realizan… eso hace su música tan pura y simple.
So Pure and Simple 