![]() In her own way, that’s as rock ’n’ roll as it gets. Jett is so free, she doesn’t feel the need to speak to her private life. Some of the younger interviewees, including Miley Cyrus and Kristen Stewart (who tells us Jett’s advice for persuasively playing guitar on camera: ‘Pussy to the wood, Kristen!’), are all but crushing on her. glitter rock all-girl band The Runaways, a. But the upcoming documentary, Bad Reputation, might get us closer to the answer by. The documentary Bad Reputation, out today, looks back on the career and evolution of Jett, who started as a late-’70s teenager in the seminal L.A. Never married, Jett seems to have her deepest relationship with longtime producer-manager Kenny Laguna, a mensch among Svengalis. Are rock stars born or made In the case of Joan Jett, you could argue both. That’s the most compelling – if unspoken – element of Kevin Kerslake’s sensitive documentary. Joan Jett Bad Reputation: This Joan Jett documentary features Joan Jett, songwriter/ producer Kenny Laguna, and musical icons Billie Joe Armstrong. The defiance has a hint of guardedness to it. There’s an inspiring emphasis on the freedom of self-distribution (her rebooted band, the Blackhearts, sold albums out of the trunk of their car) and Jett’s gaze to the lens is weathered and steely. Her pioneering 1970s ways were immortalized for a new generation with Kristen Stewart’s portrayal in 2010’s The Runaways, which Jett executive produced. ‘Bad Reputation’ has a touch too much polish in its edits, but it gets at Jett’s significance, charting the MTV darling from doe-eyed teenage Runaway and co-composer of ‘Cherry Bomb’ (perhaps complicit in her own jailbait exploitation), to L.A. The former South Carolina governor makes a cameo in Bad Reputation, a new feature-length documentary coming out next week about Jetts life and career as a. It makes sense that Jett herself would be such so magnetic on camera, ready to tout her feminist bona fides: ‘Tell me I can't do something and you’ll make sure I'm going be doing it,’ she recalls about playing music for crowds of male haters who spat on her. All of them are fervid combinations of overdriven glam guitar and throaty abandon. Joan Jett documentary Bad Reputation is available to stream, rent or buy Watch on Hulu bit.ly/BadRepHulu Watch elsewhere Stream. ![]() Joan Jett made several perfect singles in the 1980s, ‘I Love Rock ’n Roll’ being the best known (a snarly chart-topper during the year of ‘Ebony and Ivory’), but also ‘Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah),’ ‘Crimson and Clover’ and the punk jackhammer that lends this profile its name.
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