Early joan jett10/29/2022 ![]() She and the Blackhearts have reached the point in their careers that it really is just about making music. I doubt Sinner will burn up the charts, but that really isn’t the point with an artist like Jett. (For an album that employs more than a dozen engineers and was recorded at half a dozen studios, maybe they should have gone the extra step and hired an editor to cut this collection down into something sharper.) Yet that is followed directly by the hard-rock thunder of “Fetish”, and everything is right in the world again. While I may dig the message behind “Androgynous”, the laid-back Replacements-like swing of the song does nothing for me. The rest of the album falls into this pattern, with patches of classic work interrupted by songs that don’t fit and bring the proceedings crawling to a halt. “AC/DC” - a love song about choosing between a boyfriend and a girlfriend - pummels you with a classic Jett riff, followed by her signature tough-as-nails vocals, and then into a driving, catchy chorus. “Riddles” is dull, dull, dull, lacking any of the spark that Jett brought to the table in her music with the Runaways or the early days of the Blackhearts. And after the first song on Sinner, I was ready to toss this collection aside into the “artists who issue albums to have some reason to stay on the road” pile. And, most likely, because she wants to show Joanie-come-latelys like the Donnas how the big girls play. ![]() In part because she probably likes it in part because she probably doesn’t know what else to do with her time. In recent years, you could have found her gigging around the country, playing festivals (true story: I was on a flight with her and her band after they performed at the Celebrate Americafest in De Pere, Wisconsin - that’s a suburb of Green Bay for non-cheeseheads). Hell, it’s been a long time since her run of coolness during the early 1990s. It’s been a long time since “I Love Rock N’ Roll”. ![]() Loved by boys for her tough looks, and girls for her tough music (and by gay boys like myself on general principal). ![]()
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