The result is a sexy love song being sung from one woman to another woman. Jett’s black leather jacket, spiky hair, menacing sneer, and gristly voice blend together sexy and tough.įrom a queer perspective, the most interesting thing about this video is that a male singer, Tommy James, originally popularized the song and Jett has not changed the song’s gender pronouns for her own version. Her toughness has overtones of violence, like she could have kicked Pat Benatar’s ass if she wanted to. Yet she also radiates a feminist sense of strength, toughness, power, and control. She certainly seemed willing to cater to adolescent male sex fantasies with her sexual mugging, posturing, and innuendos. I don’t think it was publicly known that she was a lesbian in the early 1980s, despite the tomboy vibe of her videos.
It seems generally accepted today that she is a lesbian, and my students tell me she is out.
This was highlighted in the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction concert in which she filled in for Kurt Cobain playing Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana’s most important song.
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Recently, the movie The Runaways revived interest in her career, reminding us of her importance in American popular culture. She disappeared from MTV for several years, then returned with the heavily overplayed “I Hate Myself for Loving You” in 1988. Many of her early 1980s videos look embarrassingly primitive today, but at the time they were fun and novel. Joan Jett figures prominently in early MTV history because her anthemic smash “I Love Rock n Roll” peaked right when MTV debuted. This is the third most popular Joan Jett video on Youtube, with just over 6 million views. (quote from When MTV Ruled the World, 209) … I think she drove a lot of guys wild, there’s no doubt.” She just couldn’t have been more appealing to a guy like me. I don’t think any of us understood what ‘bisexual’ necessarily was back then.
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