And unfortunately, it was written about what happened to a woman named Mia Zapata in a band called The Gits in Seattle, who was raped and murdered. It's really about winning about overcoming. It's about being stalked about attacked and attacked. Joan Jett: Okay, the first song is called Go Home. Tell me about some of the songs and how they only could have been written by a woman. I mean you're literally cutting off half of who you are if you do that.Įrica: This songs on this album are clearly being written from the perspective of a woman. I think that it's a really necessary thing and women shouldn't feel funny about getting up on stage and sweating and things like that, just as men shouldn't feel badly emoting if they have feelings and if they want to cry. Just like sports, women are able to get their aggressions out. I happen to think that women have just as much aggression, not negative, but on a positive physical level. It seems to me that she said that women don’t emote as much as men and that's the reason - that men are more aggressive onstage. I think that women can rock just as hard. (laughs) I find that kind of an interesting comment, especially coming from Chrissy.

She said that they're physically unable to hold up a guitar properly, that their chest gets in the way. For the record, she was everything and more that I hoped she’d be.Įrica: Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders said in a press conference recently that women can't rock. She was proof that women can make it in a man’s world on their own terms. Here are the highlights of my interview with Joan Jett, Queen of Rock’n Roll. When she belted out “I don’t give a damn ‘bout my bad reputation,” all my bad-ass girlfriends would shout the lyrics on the dance floor along with her.

When I re-watched the interview I did with rock’n roll trailblazer Joan Jett in 1994 for MuchMusic, it felt just as relevant today. I was proud to interview Joan Jett, a tenacious, ambitious, hardworking musician who rocks as hard as any guy, and proudly supports women who rock along the way. I remember playing “Bad Reputation” as a DJ in Montreal night clubs in the 80’s.

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