With ‘The Stadium Tour’ starting in a few weeks, Joan Jett is gearing up & ready to deliver killer performances every night.
The tour is headlined by Motley Crue & Def Leppard and supported by Poison.
Joan recently spoke about the tour in a new with Rolling Stone.
When asked if she is fazed at all by the fact that some of those bands have been accused of misogyny in the past, she said:
“It’s very prevalent, all over rock and roll. Look, all I can do as the woman I am is go out there and show an alternative view and do it my way. If I had to weed out every band you thought was problematic, I mean, there wouldn’t be very many left. And I think everyone’s being a little … Chill out, it’s music.”
When asked whether she thinks rock is less misogynistic now than it was in the ’80s, Jett said:
“That’s a good question. The bands I listened to weren’t necessarily at all misogynistic, but I’m talking about guys like FUGAZI. I would say [it’s] probably not as misogynistic [now], just because of their openness to getting criticized about it, because you get creamed online and people seem to care about that. That doesn’t mean that it changes who they are, so maybe that’s dangerous. It goes underground. But I think things are changing.”
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Rock on, Joan! No one ever brings up all the misandry going on in our media, just misogyny when it arises. It’s great to see a prominent female rocker speaking truth out there.