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I'm Your Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch Cherry Bomb.
from: phillyist.com
by Meghan Ziegler, Photo by Flickr
In the interest of full disclosure, we admit that when we were offered the chance to see JOAN JETT's show Saturday night at Atlantic City's House of Blues, we clapped our hands, jumped up and down, and made noises similar to those a thirteen-year-old girl might make when stumbling upon a treasure trove of shirtless Orlando Bloom pictures. In short, we may have been instantaneously transformed from a serious and rational person into a squealing fangirl. We are not ashamed to admit this, because we admit this about JOAN JETT, and JOAN JETT is roughly sixteen different kinds of awesome. (We say roughly because we are unsure what your individual kinds of awesome might be. JOAN JETT averages between twelve and thirty different kinds of awesome, depending on the sliding scale currently in use in your neck of the woods.)
We were not disappointed in her show.
From the opening notes of 'Bad Reputation' to the closing chords of Sly and the Family Stone's 'Everyday People', Joan put on a fantastic show. A significant portion of the set was devoted, as should be expected, to songs off of her new album SINNER (her first all-new material album in almost a decade).
The songs from SINNER range from the political ('Riddles", a rip on the Bush administration that ends with a clip of the President's everlasting platitude "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.") to the sweetly subversive ("Androgynous", a love letter to boys who wear skirts and girls who wear chains and the normalcy of their lives) . By and large, the songs from SINNER prove that Joan is as badass as ever.
We're not going to lie. We called our husband when she played "I Love Rock and Roll" so he could hear it via our cell phone as he had just managed to play said song on 'Expert' on Guitar Heroes ,and we may have caused physical injury to our guest when Joan launched into "Crimson and Clover" as we have repeatedly referred to her cover of said song as 'Hip-Switchingly Sexy' on more than one occasion.
In short, there are few artists we would drive to Atlantic City to see the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and Joan's show made it worthwhile.
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