Zoomer here, can someone explain the hype? Also, am I really supposed to believe Jim fucking Morrison tried to bang her?

I dunno, I'm gen x and to me she was just a two hit wonder.

>>127098415 (OP)
She could fucking belt it. Had a hell of a voice and was crazy. She was the real deal and had soul which zoomers wouldnt know

Also she was fucking hot. Used to think she was a po faced tomboy that wasn't that attractive but nowadays damn id love to have a bottle of jack with her

>>127098415 (OP)
The type of woman you spend a lifetime with, but never truly have. An ethereal type of allure that shines out like a lighthouse in the night, warning you not to get too close.
In many ways Richard Thompson wrote Beeswing about her.

She died. All people in the 60s, especially those in the 27 club (people who died at 27) magically became amazing, super-human musicians posthumously. It was a common trend that died out after the 90s.

>>127098495
>It was a common trend that died out after the 90s
not really, black people worship Tupac and Aaliyah for the same reason

>>127098507
Oh fair enough, I don't pay attention to all that shit. May as well be in a different universe.

My hippie wife definitely put her on a pedestal and I never really thought she was a great musician outside of okay singing

>>127098415 (OP)
>am I really supposed to believe Jim fucking Morrison tried to bang her?

Other way around. She tried to fuck Jim at a party and he was like "ew no lol" and she chimped out then lied about the story saying he was attacking her

>>127098917
Based Jimbo

She was Amy Winehouse for boomers

>>127099063
Amy was more like Dusty Springfield. Brits who sang like black women.

>>127098415 (OP)
El trol de las americas

>>127098415 (OP)
She was elected as the ugliest boy in the class in high school.

>>127098466
Lol
>>127099077
No, cause dusty was actually attractive unlike that transexual

>>127098415 (OP)
"Chelsea Hotel #2" by Leonard Cohen is about a brief sexual affair between him and her when she was working as a prostitute.

>>127098917
he could get 10/10 women any time he wanted what did he possibly want with that smelly dirty thing?

>>127099077
Bob Dylan in a wig

>>127098415 (OP)
Girl singer who was gritty and not the usual pristine glassy look and vocals that had always been the norm for girl singers going back to the 78 record days.

>Joplin remembered how she was always a weirdo and outcast since her childhood in Port Arthur. "When I was in high school I never fit in with anyone. The girls were all bullies and huge conformists. I was a misfit. I read, I painted, I thought. I didn't hate black people."

>>127098415 (OP)
These two albums are really good.

>>127098415 (OP)
My sister hates Me and Bobby McGee because of her high school gym teacher that made the class work out to it. Though ironically she's a lot like JJ in a lot of ways.

>>127098415 (OP)
I'm from where she grew up. My grandpa went to high school with her. There's a whole museum dedicated to her and everything.

>>127098442
Agreed. Not everyone who has potential will be able to achieve success.

Ella Mae Morse did the "white girl who sounds black" thing while Janis was still prepubescent.

>>127100744
Normie women do be like that though. Catty-ass Stacys whose entire existence revolves around men and their makeup job.

>>127098415 (OP)
>Janis Lyn Joplin[1] was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on January 19, 1943,[2] to Dorothy Bonita East (1913–1998), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Ward Joplin (1910–1987), an engineer at Texaco. She had two younger siblings, Laura and Michael. The family attended First Christian Church of Port Arthur, a church belonging to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination.
I thought you guys said rich trust fund kids only exist in muzic since 2009.

>>127100893
i don't think it's quite the same being an outcast kid from a middle class family who rebelled like she did as compared to today where she would be put up to a music career by her parents and it's 100% inorganic

>>127100845
plus she was also from Texas

>>127098415 (OP)
She's more famous for her image than her music, being part of the 27 club and all

I think Maggie Bell had better chops while being the same style of singer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmKtUlxn8PY

OP here, i've figured out what the hype is now, i get it, no need for further explanations, consider this thread closed

Bro listen to her voice. Power, expressiveness, passion. Also no one except maybe Aretha I'm guessing was doing that as a woman at the time.

OH LORD, WON'T YOU BUY ME A MERCEDES BENZ?

>>127098415 (OP)
Cheap Thrills is great - the only JJ thing you need to hear.

I think its funny that guys are now worried about girls with a bodycount of 50+ when Janis did something like 100 guys on one train ride

Very unique voice in a genre (psychedelic rock) not usually with that type of presentation turned heads.
You don't need to hear beyond the Big Brother days, she lost direction after leaving that group and only became eternal due to dying young

Robert Crumb was awed by her and thought she was the ideal woman at least his idea of the ideal woman.

>>127098415 (OP)
Jerry G was obsessed with her and that's enough for me

>>127098415 (OP)
You're never gonna get it, and Jim Morrison DID try to bang her.

>>127098415 (OP)
can u explain why zoomers don't make music? they only make brainrotcore.

>>127098415 (OP)
you'll never be able to understand the beautiful soul that was janis joplin, zoomer

>>127098415 (OP)
She's their version of Billie Eilish, people just respect her more because it was an era where having a career in music made you a legend. The reason Avey Tare isn't seen by millions of people as a genius is that he didn't start out in the 60's.

>>127098415 (OP)
She's their version of Billie Eilish, people just respect her more because it was an era where having a career in music made you a legend. The reason Avey Tare isn't hailed as a genius by millions of people is that he didn't start out in the 60's.

>>127098415 (OP)
>>127100577
this is true. she apparently, for whatever reason, attracted a lot of attention wherever she went. i think the college newspaper wrote a big article on her (pre-fame) too.

>>127105444
in what way does she have anything in common at all with Billie?

>>127108221
Both were bisexual lesbians!

>>127098415 (OP)
zoomers hate blues music?

Shes like cat powers. She has that same kind of magnetism.

>>127108221
Quality.

>>127098415 (OP)
I don't even know who this is, kid

>>127110081
This is bait.

>>127098415 (OP)
love her music, Cheap Thrills is vastly overrated, but her two next albums are absolutely gorgeous
>>127100577
she was chubby and had a skin disease as a kid, so she was really bullied in school
but I don't think she was an absolute uggo as an adult
not a beauty or anything, just an average everyday woman
we're so used to pop stars having to look gorgeous all the time, that we seem to get weirded out by regular people

>>127103357
>now
This has always been a fear