Hello there! (: well I won’t reference this time or maybe just one source because I think I can say a lot about this girl rock band :D As I said in the previous post, in the 80’s there were female rockers, like Joan Jett and Lita Ford. Well, these girls started their band, “The Runaways” in 1975, when everybody thought Rock n’ Roll was for men, and they showed everyone not. A lot of you might know Joan Jett from the song “I love Rock n’ Roll”, but she along with Lita Ford was in The Runaways before going solo. As shown in the picture, they are: Lita (the most amazing girl guitarist I have heard by now), Jackie (who played bass), Joan (who played rhythm guitar, sang, formed the band and is so cool), Sandy (who played drums, and very well), and Cherie (who was the controversial singer). They were so young when they started, Cherie was 16, and the rest where 17 ,I think, just like our age! : D I find that really exciting, when I saw their movie I wanted to leave IB.. XD. In the seventies and eighties where there was more easy to leave school and become a rock star, because as I said everyone loved Rock n’ Roll back then.
Joan Jett was a teenager who wanted to learn guitar but nobody would want to teach her, so she had nothing to do (I never saw her doing her homework in the movie) so she spent her nights going to clubs to dope herself and try to find girls like her. So she found Sandy West, the drummer, and their future producer, Kim Fowley, who helped them find the rest of the members of the band. Cherie Currie wanted to be a singer and she did many times at her school, but the people did not like the music she sang and how she dressed (awesome) so they would throw things at her. Lita Ford was the daughter of Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore (very good guitarist, people say, but an a**hole because he treated my man bad) and already had a guys’ band before, but when she met Joan and Sandy she liked the idea of a girl rock band, I like it too XD. So after they met, the first song they wrote was Cherry Bomb, I think about the singer Cherie Currie. They became really famous and did tours even in Japan.
There is a movie about them :D but I think it never came out here in Mexico, because my rocker friends : P didn’t know about it, but I discovered it online and bought it later ;) That movie is based on a biographical book by the singer Cherie Currie, so the movie is REALLY cool because it shows to a very good extent how things were back then and also the actresses seem too much like them, Kirsten Stewart plays Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning plays Cherie Currie : D they act very well, I recommend you girls the movie, and guys also. These girls were all rebel and bad XD something like that, well for some things you will see in the movie XD. Oh, and the movie has and awesome soundtrack :D My favorite songs from them are (they say some nasty things but XD): Cherry Bomb, I love playing with fire, I want to be where the boys are, California Paradise and Hollywood.
This is “I want to be where the boys are”, in the live version which is better, to me. Joan sings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3vXozzdqRw
And here is the trailer of the movie ;) Hope you like it if you see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIpQ9w27NNo&feature=related
Hi there, Caro! I just want you to know that I really love your blog! When I read every post that you write, I can even feel how happy you are by writing all this and that is something very important (: Well, now talking about your post, I think that it is pretty great! I think that Joan Jett is a great singer and I can say that she is really original in her way of singing because this girl is not the typical singer that sings about “colors, rainbows, and unicorns” lol I don’t know if you understand what I mean. What I wanted to explain is that Joan Jett is unique in her style and songs; she is neither a Madonna nor a pop artist. Maybe that is why I’m very interested in these periods because music was better than the one that we have today: there was no pop music, songs REALLY had a meaning, and they were not so “commercial”, well… that is just my point of view. Well, talking again about Joan Jett, I think that it is really cool to know that she wanted to make the difference by showing that women are also able to play Rock and Roll music, not just men… I have not seen the movie but maybe in the future I would think in watching it (: Ok, I think that this is all what I wanted to say today :P I really like your topics and I hope you to keep going like this… Congratulations!
ResponderEliminarThank you Ana Karen :D I am glad that you find this interesting (: haha yeah, it is true that Joan Jett doesn't sing about unicorns hahaha:D I think you mean that she is not like any other girl singer, who tend to sing pop and always about the same girly topics, that she decided to be herself and be different, doing what she liked instead of what everybody thought she should do. Haha and yes :P! watch the movie! and tell me what you think about it :P
ResponderEliminarHello Caro!
ResponderEliminarWOW! I love your post! I really like The Runaways, I love the song “Cherry bomb” or something like that. It is interesting to know more about these amazing girls, I mean, they started when they were just like our age O: I feel a little sad because they did a lot and we have never did something like that haha! Something that in my opinion, I thing that is wrong is that some rocker girls spent the nights going to clubs and dope their selves, I mean, they got a lot of talent and they should take advantage of that.
Another thing that I didn’t know about Currie is that people used to throw things at her, poor Currie, in my opinion, I think that she is a really good singer and no one deserve to be treated in that way.
About the movie, last summer watched the movie online and I love the movie! I love Dakota Fanning and I think that she acts very well like Currie. And one of my favorites songs of the soundtrack was also Cheery Bomb and I want to be where the boys are. Also, the video that you post of the song “I want to be where boys are” is really cool, I’m agree with you about that these version is much better than others, I think that the voices sounds better in the live version.