![]() ![]() Jett’s story is, of course, the stuff of legend. She survived the fractious rise and fall of her first band, the Runaways-recently chronicled in both a documentary and feature film-as well as her meteoric ascent in the early 1980s to the ranks of rock and roll’s elite, at the hands of the then-fledgling MTV. ![]() That was, of course, followed by an equally speedy fall, courtesy of changing times and more than a little sexism-even from her own label-only to become a beacon of authenticity and an icon to the LGBT community (“I stand with everybody,” she says, proudly) in this decade. “It’s a word that’s probably over-used today-authenticity-but I still think people are looking for it,” Jett says. “They’re looking for something that’s real, because we have so much fakeness today. Everything nowadays is always about putting this best face forward-or phony face forward, as far as I’m concerned-with people creating their ‘brands’ online. So when people see something they sense is authentic, they gravitate to it.” I’m talking about little kids, even, and definitely teenagers everybody’s got a brand. One of the most iconic artists of the 1980s MTV era, Jett’s story was retold in last year’s career-spanning documentary Bad Reputation. It’s a remarkable tale: Jett, aided by ever-present manager Kenny Laguna, building her career by fusing punk and glam and the sort of old school rock and roll that used to pepper the AM airwaves in the 1960s, along the way embracing the music videos that MTV was in desperate need of, becoming a household name in the process. But it had been a long, hard road already.Īs a kid growing up in suburban Pennsylvania, Jett had absorbed every Black Sabbath, David Bowie, T. Rex, and New York Dolls record she could get her hands on. ![]()
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