![]() However, her indelible signature hit is conspicuous by its absence maybe recording an unplugged version of a song called ‘I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll’ felt like a troll move?Īs befits a straight-up rock ‘n’ roller like Jett, ‘Changeup’ is a no-frills affair that doesn’t overdo the studio polish. Instead, it offers new acoustic takes on 25 tracks from Jett’s back catalogue including live staples such as ‘Cherry Bomb’, ‘Light Of Day’ and ‘Bad Reputation’. ‘Changeup’ is her first non-compilation album in nine years, but it features no new songs. Though Jett remains a touring warhorse when there’s no pandemic getting in her way, new music clearly isn’t top of the agenda these days. At this point, her legendary status must be guaranteed. The 2018 documentary Bad Reputation didn’t dig too deeply into Jett’s private life, which is always the way this proudly old-school rocker has played it, but did highlight how she claimed space in an overwhelmingly male-dominated field. Then in 2015, a year after she sang ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ with the surviving members of Nirvana at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame reunion, she too was inducted by Miley Cyrus, who hailed her as a “superwoman” who “made the world evolve”. First Kristen Stewart played her in 2010’s The Runaways, a rollicking biopic about the pioneering all-female band she co-founded as a teenager. The last decade or so has done wonders for Joan Jett‘s (not so) Bad Reputation.
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