Was this a daunting experience for you? It wasn't, because I guess I wasn't thinking about all those things just named! I wasn’t aware of it. This was big, and you pretty much had to carry the film. Fox at the absolute height of his post-Back to the Future fame. You don't seem like someone who's intimidated by much in life, Joan, but I do wonder if it was a daunting experience.
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Well, since you're talking about anniversaries, the 35th anniversary of the movie Light of Day was very recently, and that's the last the song – “Light of Day” is the last song on this Change Up album. So, this is kind of really stepping into the unknown for me and the band, but we're having a great time. … And it was just really, really interesting for me and different because I'm usually very… I like to stay in a pattern that I know and I'm familiar with. But something like “Cherry Bomb” is really fun and different, and I love the way it came out. Right away, it hits you, when the melody starts, that it's different. What is the one song you would say is the most transformed in that way, when you do it stripped-down? I would say “Victim of Circumstance,” only because if you know the melody, it's an obvious change. We did the hits too, but we didn't necessarily want to revisit that specifically on this new album. Joan Jett: So, this past year, last year, and this year, is the 40th anniversary of both the Bad Reputation c a way, to try to give fans some extra material, some things to listen to that might be interesting and different, we thought, “Why don't we try and record a few songs and see, to give to the fans?” And once we got in the studio and started recording stuff, we just kind of kept going, and we recorded pretty much everything that we could do live. So, I'm gonna start with the obvious question, about why you decide to revisit your material in this way.
It's acoustic versions of your classic songs. Yahoo Entertainment: You just released your first ever acoustic album, Changeup. Here, the legend discusses Changeup, the media’s unfair treatment of the Runaways, the Runaways’ bonkers seven-minute mini-musical “Dead End Justice,” and what is the biggest misunderstanding about her. But nearly a half-century later, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee is still pushing herself artistically, taking control of her post-Runaways narrative with 40x40, and embracing change. I didn't really get what was sort of threatening, initially,” she muses. “I didn't really get it, because we're just girls playing rock ‘n’ roll. Jett says with a smile, “This is kind of really stepping into the unknown for me and the band, but we're having a great time.” Jett really stepped into the unknown in 1975 - a time when she “could feel that there was this threat in the air” over what the Runaways were doing, and wen that teen band even “took s*** from feminists” for using their sexuality. The album features acoustic remakes of some of her biggest hits (“Bad Reputation,” “Fake Friends,” the Runaways’ rallying cry “Cherry Bomb”) as well as deeper cuts, with many of the lyrics taking on poignant new meaning amid such stripped-down arrangements. and New York premieres of her 2018 documentary, Bad Reputation. But now Jett is showcasing her softer side on Changeup, an unplugged album whose genesis can be traced back to the well-received acoustic shows she and the Blackhearts played at the L.A. “If you're a naïve, trusting person - which I tend to be - you gotta watch your ass,” she tells Yahoo Entertainment. In fact, she says much of her reputation, bad or otherwise, is the result of her “armor,” which she “preemptively” built to protect herself during her fraught teenage years with trailblazing and controversial all-girl band the Runaways.
Joan Jett talks anxiety, 'armor' and why ‘girls playing rock 'n' roll is sexual by its nature'Joan Jett talks anxiety, ‘armor’ and why ‘girls playing rock ‘n’ roll is sexual by its nature’ Joan Jett may have just released a graphic novel, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts 40x40, to commemorate the 40th anniversaries of her landmark Bad Reputation and I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll albums - but the rock ‘n’ roll superheroine insists that she’s not quite so badass, “mean,” or “scary” in real life.
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