She blew some journalists' minds when she used that expression, but it was a very sexual experience for her. compared singing on stage to having an orgasm.
He was a very sexual performer and he was able to emit this heat on stage that Janis herself was able to do through her own way of manifesting these feelings that she had while singing these songs. She was a huge Otis fan until the day she died, and she got to see him perform live three nights in a row at the Fillmore back in 1966, and it transformed her. The other major influence was Otis Redding. She started performing Bessie Smith songs around 1963, and those kind of lyrics of sexuality, of sexual longing, sexual betrayal: Those very much informed Janis' own songwriting and the songs that she chose to sing. One was, of course, the great Bessie Smith, whose lyrics Janis knew by heart.
You can look to two major influences that Janis had that I think affected her sexuality and the way she expressed it onstage. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. (The album was released posthumously in 1971, following Joplin's fatal overdose in 1970.)Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Janis Subtitle Her Life and Music Author Holly George-Warren George-Warren says she decided to write about Joplin after listening to tapes from the Columbia Records vault of the singer's recording session with producer Paul Rothchild for the album Pearl. "She wanted people to think she was just this vessel, or this megaphone, or something that was just up there on stage, and the music and emotions were just coming out of her." She didn't want people to know how hard she worked," George-Warren says. It all seemed so effortless, but George-Warren describes Joplin as a bookworm who worked hard to create her "blues feelin' mama" musical persona. On stage, Joplin oozed confidence, sexuality and exuberance. was very, very different than most of the women that came before." "Janis created this incredible image that went along with her amazing vocal ability. "At that point in time there weren't too many women taking center stage," biographer Holly George-Warren says. In the 1960s, Janis Joplin was an icon of the counterculture, a female rock star at a time when rock was an all-boys' club. Biographer Holly George-Warren describes rock star Janis Joplin (shown here in 1969) as an introspective person who didn't always like her own thoughts.
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