When magazines publish these Women In Rock and Year of the Woman articles, it really gets annoying to see female artists misrepresented. She may be a woman in rock, but Jett has never been one to be boiled down to her X chromosomes in her decades in music.
I love Joanie, but never wanted to be her manager. But she became a cause. After a frightening hospitalization for a heart infection, Joan went to Europe and recorded and released a self-titled debut album.
Back in the States, 23 labels rejected the album , so Laguna and Joan formed independent label Blackheart Records and released it themselves. Joan decided to form a new band with men because another band with women would have been "sacrilegious," as she told People in , and she also wanted avoid the negative public perceptions that came from having an all-women band.
An advertisement announcing that she was looking for "a few good men" led to the formation of the Blackhearts. The album's lead single, also called "Bad Reputation," remains iconic to this day — it was named the 29th best hard rock song of all time by VH1 in and serves as an answer song to Joan's critics and naysayers. Kathleen Kennedy described the song in Women's History Review as "a defiant reply to what she understood as different codes of conduct applied to make and female rock performers," with lyrics like "a girl can do what she wants to do and that's what I'm gonna do" and "I don't really care if you think I'm strange, I ain't gonna change.
Joan's first album with the Blackhearts, I Love Rock and Roll , came out in and was "unexpectedly a huge smash," reaching number two on Billboard. The title track, a cover of an Arrows song that Joan had performed live for years, became one of the best-selling singles of all time , topped the Billboard charts for seven weeks, and was the third most popular song of The album remains Joan's most successful one, having sold ten million copies.
The song's popularity was bolstered by the " endless play " of its video on the newly influential and groundbreaking MTV , featuring Joan and the Blackhearts moodily swaggering and sneering through a live performance in a dive bar.
The Blackhearts followed up this video with a meta one for "Bad Reputation," depicting the rise to stardom that resulted from "I Love Rock and Roll. Also from the Bad Reputation album, this song became another infamous Jett video, this time featuring her opening a raincoat to flash the camera in a tiny bikini.
Album's first single, "Fake Friends" was a commercial disappointment, and a cover of "Everyday People" did better, though nothing like "I Love Rock and Roll. Rolling Stone's review of Album stated that it "doesn't make a very strong argument for Jett as a major talent.
Nevertheless, the Blackhearts continued touring and making eye-catching videos featuring such scenes as the band being mobbed by hangers-on who turn into cardboard cutouts " Fake Friends " and what Kathleen Kennedy described as Joan "orchestrat[ing] a number of fantasy scenes around the concept of group participation in sex" and " lead[ing] a parade of transvestites, prostitutes and one older white male — dressed in a white suit — who awkwardly attempts to match Jett's steps.
The parade walks right into the camera and ends as Jett plants a kiss on the camera viewer " in " The French Song. However, things were about to improve for Joan Jett once again. Fox and Gena Rowlands in the "family melodrama" as a single mother fronting a bar band and fighting with her religious mother. Her acting received mixed reviews from critics such as Robert Ebert , with Variety calling her line readings " childish and silly.
In , the album Up Your Alley was a huge, multiplatinum comeback with two top singles. Laguna moved Jett to LI where their base of operations was. Together they formed the Blackhearts band and launched a solo career for Jett. But, we are a team working for the same thing," says Jett.
The title track topped the Billboard charts for seven weeks. Originally, I thought it might be really cool for The Runaways to cover," recalls Jett. Jett developed her own style blending British glitter rock sing-along choruses and gang vocals with a punk rock vibe and attitude. They basically let us record what became Bad Reputation and [said], 'Pay us when you can.
At first, Jett and Laguna printed and distributed the record themselves, selling copies at Jett's shows. The record then was picked up by Boardwalk Records and re-released as Bad Reputation.
Her rock-pop sound, however, didn't quite catch on. I Love Rock 'n' Roll became a huge hit, driven in large part to the title track, which hit the top of the pop charts in early Building on her newfound fame, Jett released Album in , but it failed to match her earlier success.
Jett again tried acting with a role in Light of Day with Michael J. The film failed with critics and at the box office, but she had a minor hit with the theme song, a Bruce Springsteen cover.
Two more albums followed with little commercial success. She did, however, receive a lot of positive reviews for 's Pure and Simple. The title came from her style of music. Outside of her own music, Jett worked as a producer for groups such as Bikini Kill and L7, along with several other female-led rock bands that drew inspiration from Jett and the punk-glam rock sound of the Runaways.
She also recorded with the surviving members of the Seattle punk band the Gits as Evil Stig. In , Jett released Fetish , which featured a mix of old and new material. She took a long break between full studio efforts as she faced difficulties with her record company.
Her next full studio album was 's Naked , quickly followed by 's Sinner , both of which she released through her own record label. Sinner marked a change in direction for Jett. The song "Riddles" was her first political song, which she wrote as "a commentary on the state of our country," she explained in Interview magazine. Jett put out her latest studio album, Unvarnished , in The project gave her a chance to work with such artists as Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fame.
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