There might be a lot more women making records that don’t get heard.Ĭonsidering what you’ve been through between that and the Runaways, why do you think the #MeToo movement has been slow in reaching the music industry? There’s a lot of ways to block you, even if you’ve been able to make the record that you want to make. You know, those records might be out there and they might not be allowed to be played on the stations where they might get heard. There was a statistic this year that just under five percent of the producers who created Top 40 hits in the last year were women. I think one of the big things would be getting more women into positions of power so they can be the decision makers, because we think differently and break down problems differently. How do you feel that could be leveled out? ![]() There’s been a lot of talk this year about representation and the lack of women in the music industry. so it was more of a societal thing that made me want to fight against it. ![]() But that wasn’t something I figured out at that moment: I just didn’t like being told I couldn’t do something I could obviously do. So when you tell me a girl can’t play rock & roll, you’re not saying a girl can’t master the guitar, you’re saying girls aren’t allowed to play rock & roll because rock is a sexual type of music and being sexual is not allowed for girls. I don’t know if that made me more risk averse, but being told you can’t do something when the proof is right there in front of your face - playing clarinet in band in school for instance - pushed me. Maybe it was my parents telling me I could be anything I wanted to be from the time I was a little kid. “It’s a great way to tell it all,” she says, with pride in her voice. Brinkman had originally thought of making a sitcom about her life but then shifted the focus to Jett’s entire life, from misfit teen to Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. (Just how omnipresent? The flick includes a scene of Laguna taping together the seat of Jett’s leather pants.) In Jett’s opinion, the doc, which was directed by Kevin Kerslake, was a way for Brinkman to show people how she grew up, even though it’s through Jett’s lens. The film was the brainchild of Carianne Brinkman, the daughter of Jett’s omnipresent manager and bandmate, Kenny Laguna. “It’s nice to see everything finally laid out, and it’s nice to be able to tell some of these stories now.” “It’s a little overwhelming and very surreal - but in a good way,” she says in her brusque, to-the-point manner of speaking, on a call from her home in Long Island. The doc shows how she went from a sweet-looking high schooler to a black-leather–clad icon.įor Jett, it’s a lot to process. Fox and Kristen Stewart, praise her contributions to rock & roll. Through it all, she’s kept her game face and pushed forward, and in the film, a diverse group of talking heads, including Debbie Harry, Miley Cyrus, Michael J. Waning popularity paired with a Warped Tour reinvention. success matched with a major label looking to crush her. Over the course of 90 minutes, the new documentary Bad Reputation chronicles Joan Jett’s roller-coaster life: The high of the Runaways, followed by a messy breakup.
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