"I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe"
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Joan Jett isn’t romanticizing “being vulnerable” as a cute makeover for your public image. She’s describing openness as work: a muscle you build onstage in real time, under fluorescent judgment. “I’m having fun opening up” lands with that classic Jett tension - pleasure braided to defiance. The fun isn’t in confession; it’s in the risk, in refusing the cool-girl armor rock culture has historically demanded, especially from women who get punished for being either too hard or too soft.
The next line is the tell: “struggling to get the audience into it.” Jett is honest about the transactional weirdness of performance. Audiences love mythology - the leather jacket, the snarl, the anthem they can shout. But when an artist shifts from posture to person, the room can hesitate. You can almost hear the crowd thinking: Wait, are we allowed to be quiet? Are we still at a rock show?
Her pivot to “fight” reframes that awkwardness as productive friction. Not a brawl, a stance. Opening up becomes a way to sharpen belief rather than dilute it, a challenge to both performer and audience to participate instead of consume. Jett’s subtext is that connection isn’t handed over; it’s earned through resistance - the kind that makes you clarify what you actually stand for. Vulnerability, in her hands, isn’t surrender. It’s another form of volume.
The next line is the tell: “struggling to get the audience into it.” Jett is honest about the transactional weirdness of performance. Audiences love mythology - the leather jacket, the snarl, the anthem they can shout. But when an artist shifts from posture to person, the room can hesitate. You can almost hear the crowd thinking: Wait, are we allowed to be quiet? Are we still at a rock show?
Her pivot to “fight” reframes that awkwardness as productive friction. Not a brawl, a stance. Opening up becomes a way to sharpen belief rather than dilute it, a challenge to both performer and audience to participate instead of consume. Jett’s subtext is that connection isn’t handed over; it’s earned through resistance - the kind that makes you clarify what you actually stand for. Vulnerability, in her hands, isn’t surrender. It’s another form of volume.
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