And then you get fearful, because it’s been so long and you don’t trust people. Or thinking that a relationship will make everything O.K., and that’s not the case. Yeah, it’s kind of sad, isn’t it? I watched it, and I was like, “Wow, what a life, man.” is definitely tough. There’s a touching part in the movie, where you talk about how difficult it is to maintain a relationship - your primary love has been music, rather than a person. Like Laura Jane is out there saying, “This is me.” I love it. If you’re a musician and you claim you can play, I can play. You win it with mental fortitude, with being able to do what you say you can do. It’s the long battle, something you don’t win with muscular strength. I don’t mean it like you’re always tense and fighting. Like your friend Laura Jane Grace, who came out as trans and continued to have success fronting the punk band Against Me! With all the battles you faced just to perform, do you ever feel a tinge jealous of artists now? Īudiences are somewhat more accepting of difference now. Well, sorry, but we are girls, maybe sometimes we want to. We were getting from the feminists, saying, you’re using your sexuality. Why can’t girls own sex the way boys do? It’s not fair. If Mick Jagger can go out there and ride a big penis on stage, and that’s fine, how come girls - girls want to have sex, girls are sexual. It was about doing what the Rolling Stones did. In Kim’s case, he championed you as a groundbreaking band but also didn’t shy away from sexing you up. I think we’re all going through a thorny cultural shift, reassessing illustrious artists who also may have demeaned or abused people. Like, I was taught young and learned from experience. It’s just, my gears are set to punch when that stuff happens. All of a sudden I felt somebody grab me from behind, sort of wrap their arms around me. Louis, playing a stadium, and I was walking to the stage, in the parking lot. Īn example: I was working with Chuck Berry once, doing some gigs together. But I can’t really speak to what they’re saying. Do I think differently about him? I don’t like the thought - if he hurt people, that’s not good. If I had felt uncomfortable, or like some guy was going to with me, sexually, I would have been out of there, man.
Did you think differently about him and what he meant to your life after those allegations surfaced? After his death, in 2015, he was accused of rape by a former Runaways bassist. But it was her representing all of us - it wasn’t just necessarily about Cherie. I started jamming on the “Cherry Bomb” riff, and he started with the chorus - “hello Daddy, hello Mom.” I’d say 20, 25 minutes, we came back and said, “Sing this.” It was great to be in that creative process, happening right there for a specific person. Kim and I went in the other room, and he said, just start playing me something, play a riff.
So Kim said we’re going to write you a song. Cherie Currie showed up to audition, and she had no song to sing. Was the Runaways’ “ Cherry Bomb ” one of those immediate songs? You have to sit down and go, this is so stupid, no one’s going to listen to this - that’s how it starts. But basically, I have to remind myself: It’s work. You don’t sit down, because if you sit down, then you have to come up with something, and if you don’t, what then? Maybe five times in my whole life have I sat down and a song was pretty much there - idea, melody, riff. But I think I feel more fearful that you’re not going to come up with anything. 19, in Michigan, with Australia on deck next year, and their catalog has just begun streaming.ĭo you still get the same joy from writing a song that you did early on? The Blackhearts’ ongoing United States tour resumes Oct. “You should sweat when you’re onstage,” she said. The effect is the same though: hot, figuratively and literally. Her leather looks are actually faux she is a longtime animal advocate. At 60, she is still clad in black and leather, with expertly winged eyeliner - even offstage. Her ferocity and defiance have never diminished.
I didn’t have a Plan B.” (As Iggy Pop puts it in the doc: “Joan Jett was nobody’s sidecar.”) “For me, it was all in, completely,” she said of being a rock musician. Her drive was to keep playing, no matter the consequences even when women were sidelined, she persevered.
That’s one message of “ Bad Reputation,” a documentary chronicling her 40-plus years in the music business, first as a founder of the Runaways, the seismic teen girl rockers of the ’70s, then as the frontwoman and guitarist for the Blackhearts, her enduring band.
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