Janis' training in singing involved her listening for years to blues singers like Bessie Smith, Odetta, Big Mama Thornton, Billie Holiday and Leadbelly.
@@kshavon3098 She's right - your reaction to her singing was on point and entertaining! More Janis will show you her various styles but this song is the mountain top for me!!
As a teenager in East Texas she would sneak out with her friends to Lousiana Black bars to listen to blues. It was her passion. Like Elvis, she grew up with the Black music influence. Happy Birthday Miss Janis. You are severely missed.
She is unfortunately part of the "27" club. All the great artists that passed away at 27 years old. She died from an overdose in a hotel room alone. She was one of the greats. Yeah she is worth listening to and sadly gone way too soon.😪. Thanks for playing this 🤙🏽🤟🏽✌🏽
She was drinking in my favorite bar just an hour of so before her OD - Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood which also has a bar stool reserved for Jim Morrison who was a regular there. My dad played bass and knew Janis personally.
When i was in Vietnam there was tension between some folks, me bein white and my best friend Nathan (rip) being black, we listened to different music, country for me, Motown for Nathan. All of us grooved to Janis! She broke so many many barriers during that fucked up war! We ALL became brothers, Janis was a big part of it. Thank you for bringing me back to those good times 🇺🇸❤️👍
A lot of people have noted the irony that, at the time, the "Queen of black blues" (Janis) was white, while the "King of white rock" (Jimi) was black, which highlights a lot of racial nonsense, in fact the nonsensical nature of all racism.
Except that the racial differentiation in singing is well established. There are only a few white singers who SOUND black. Janis is one example, Righteous Brothers is another. And in all of the rare examples, the overwhelming response from BOTH black and white listeners is, "they sound black". That's not fiction, it's an almost universal reaction. And quite often it's a shock to the listener to find out the reality.
@@fluxrider7027 thats not ture my opera teachers told me i would never sing opera bc my voice was too black---YES she said that....still can sing both piss on her!!
I went to a concert in Vacouuvar BC Canada when I was only 14 yrs old! It was held at the PNE -A fair ground and we somehow got to the front! My friend and I took off and lied to our parents telling them we were going to each other’s house! We hitched hiked and spent every penny buying our tickets! Janis Joplin sang her heart out! Jimmy Hendrix played like he was on fire! She looked down at me and after the show she came to me and grabbed my arm! She told me my eyes were bright and strong! She signed my program and WOW! OMG! I did not wash my arm for a month! She and her band and Jimmy were so kind-1967! 🍃💚🍃🔥🔥🔥👵🏽👋🏾 We we’re in trouble with our moms and got grounded but it was so worth it!
I was there having grown up in that area‼️ Jimi Hendrix and Janis, Santana and so many more! I got to see Janis in San Francisco 2 years later life altering for sure🎶💯
@@harrietmiller3982 WOW!!! your are so blessed ... I would trade my left Tit to have seen that performance. I have no idea how times I have seen and heard this track and I am STILL mind blown.. every.. single .. time!! There was NO ONE like her, man and there never will be ever again. thanks for sharing your fabulous memory!! Peace
Harriet Miller is absolutely correct - I'm not trying to sell you anything - here's a link to her Monterey festival when she first came out. There's a woman in the audience they show whose mouth is open and jaw dropped - that's Cass elliott. Many know her as Mama Cass from "The Mamas and the papas" They seem distant now but they were a huge band in the 60s out of LA - Janis came out of the San Francisco music scene - they didn't expect anything like her to come out of San Francisco! Cass was the big voice on stage at the time (along with Grace slick from Jefferson airplane) and no one, and I mean NO ONE, had ever heard a white woman sing like this Half the fun of this video is watching the audience totally mesmerized Enjoy ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X1zFnyEe3nE.html
Her biggest influence was,Bessie Smith, who was the biggest star a century ago. Janis kills it on every appearance. Never singing the same song the way twice. Always putting everything into a performance. As someone else has already said - it's always great to see someone find Joplin for the first time. Janis NEVER disappoints.
I have loved Janis since I first heard her when I was sixteen fifty years ago and cried bitter tears when she died and I love it when young people find her for the first time,listen to little girl blue you will love it regards from Ireland
This! Janice had so many amazing performances but that Stockholm performance of Work me Lord sends chills down my spine every time I hear it and it has been on my playlist for 50 years! It's been on my playlist so long playlist were made by stacking albums on a turntable!
This song is originally from "Porgy and Bess", the first all-black opera and it has some other beautiful songs and performances. You may wish to check it out in your own time - I think you'll love it as well👍😎
Love your reaction!! I was lucky to be part of her generation & I am a huge, huge fan of Janis Joplin and always love hearing her singing & to watch the reactions of first time viewers 🔥Check out Cry Baby, Me & Bobby McGee two other favs of mine !!💎😻☮️☮️ 🇨🇦🇨🇦 cheers from Canada !
I Love the way you can feel the music, love the way your heart is surrounded by emotion by her voice, I was about the same when i first hear her in the 80's
Janis is so great. I wish I could have been on one of her concerts but I was to young. She can really really sing your socks off. She have many great songs. 👍 Nice. 😍🎶 Love from Norway 🇳🇴
In '69 I was 17 running all night with friends out on the bluffs Pensacola FL and we would crank up the entire "Cheap Thrills " 8 track and play tat and Johnny Winter over and over..MAN it was a great time to be young!!
What a great reaction video 😄 Now here's a word for everybody to learn: POLYPHONIC. Janis' voice had a very rare polyphonic quality-- you can hear it all through this particular performance---which means sometimes she was hitting multiple notes at one time! Tibetan monks train for years to do this in their religious chanting. Janis was a force of nature and a goddess! ❤ ~~Katerina
Thank you for the word, POLYPHONIC!! Been trying to explain that a documentary had a professional do a voice analysis on the analysis machine, said she was singing three notes at once on the bit he recorded. Polyphonic. Thank you! People looked at me like I was nuts, lol
@@alisonrodger3360 I doubt it, she has a pretty clean, clear vocal quality. Beautiful voice. Maybe she was literally singing with or harmonizing with herself, on a multi-track recording.
Professional Shavron, immaculate is good. Janis a free-spirit with alot of soul. The first song i heard her sing was Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart. I was hooked...Peaceful 🤙☝️😌
This was my first time watching one of your reactions. It is 6:30 a.m. and I'm drinking my coffee. You have totally given me a happy and good vibe start to my day. I'm going to come back again ♥️
Now you have to, absolutely have to listen to Cry Baby, Ball and Chain (monterey Festival is the best), one that people don't play for reactions but, is a great song Kozmic Blues, ect. Janis was towering. One of the women who changed music. There is and will be only one of her. No one will ever be another Janis. In high school and college the kids thought her ugly and let her know it. But, the people who discover her today see her beauty. Just like alot of people did not like her back then because she was outspoken, not demure and ladylike, ect. Today she is prized for herself. She died of an overdose at age 27 in 1970. The world lost greatness.
I forgot to tell you that your reaction was both fun to see but, also very much in the lane of young people discovering Janis and hearing her for the first time. They are just stunned. And the thing is that she did this live and raw. No autotune. No gimmicks. No acting foolish to draw attention. No help from studio gadgets to make you sound passable. This was sheer raw talent.
Cry Baby HAS to be one of the best vocal intros of all time..especially in her live video where she adds a cool kick with her foot as she finally gets to 'baby' after that ridiculous vocal gymnastics of Cry...yyyyy......yyyyyy!!!
Seeing someone on the edge of her seat and staring hard at the screen with her eyebrows all scrunched up in anticipation and concentration, like you were here, is the highest form of flattery! And ur right: Janice deserves every scrunched-up eyebrow and stank face! A genius of soul!
never judge a book by it's cover...no make up... no hairstyle... no fancy costumes.. no props...no digital aids... and yet ? ...lol...we had a saying back in the day... "soul has no color"...name an artist today that can do what she did...lol this was how music was made during our time, kids......peace
None of us hippies wore makeup. We parted our hair in the middle and let it hang. It wasn't about looks or fashion, it was about what was in your heart and soul.
I have felt Janis’s singing since this was released. I was 17 and living SE Texas just like her. I wasn’t in the cool clique either, but really who is? The future screwups. You don’t learn about life by being spoiled. At least most of them were. We were the ones watching and learning for our own life. I still feel that pain in her voice. She was one of a kind. Thank God we got to have the blessing of experiencing her talent.
I had to watch this reaction twice in a row! Girl, I was laughing so hard through the first one I didn't even get to see it! Now I'm going to check to see if you have a PO box.. I'll send you Janis's music!
Came back here to your first reaction to Janis in celebration of Janis's 80th Birthday, which is today, January 19th Still one of my favorite reactions to her music. Happy Birthday Janis!!
Joplin was a God when I was young - we Loved her - she broke open how anyone can sing when they are free and fearless! I love how you immediately see and hear how Joplin captivated us with her voice☮️
Janis Joplin is in the rock and roll fame. Dead at 27 and despite that short career she is still considered one of the greatest vocal blues singers ever. The original Amy Whinehouse sadly in more ways than one
1 of my idols growing up... many years later I actually auditioned with her band, Big Brother & the Holding Co. Nobody can replace Janis! A memory I'll have to tell ya about later... Thank you BF ♥
all of us need to hear about you singing with Big Brother. That is such a rare treat and with these guys who were her best friends when she started. Spending some time with them had to be mind blowing
I'm old enough to remember when they announced that Janis had passed on TV. And I have been keeping up w/ female artists ever since hoping that her vocal doppelganger would come along before I die. So far, she's still in a league of her own, IMO. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X1zFnyEe3nE.htmlsi=_x4K_xRNMhSKxup8
Janis Joplin was a queen Boo.. I can't believe you have never heard of her. OMG girl you need to definitely need to do more of her. Lol I knew the beginning of this was gonna get you though Lol
She was a true original and no one has come close to her "genius" since. When I hear her sing Summertime I still get the chills just like I did back in the 70's. Yeah, I'm that old :)
I grew up with my dad playing Janis on the old 8 track player. I read that as a teen she used to sneak out and go to bars to watch performances of black singers and their influences show in her music. She was relentlessly bullied in her hometown. Never fit the mold of what a girl should be back in the 60's, and died way too young, ...she was also musically gifted beyond belief. Still one of my favorites to this day!
She was so awesome I grew up with my brothers listen to all the time that was Jimi Hendrix woman back in the day she's got another song take another little piece of my heart out you need to check that out the more you listen to it the more you going to love it
Just came off the live an caught this one...Janis is amazing, she moves the soul...This is my kinda Jam, Im a classic rock type grl, but love every genre. Music back then was so raw and amazing...Back in my day when you followed your fav artist you had to literally follow them, this was before computers internet or cable music channels, thats how we got deemed "groupies" (word that refers to a fan of a particular musical group who follows the band around while they are on tour or who attends as many of their public appearances as possible) , just a little fun fact. Thanx for great reaction, Peace
I know I'm late to this party, I just subscribed, but three words for your Janis journey if you haven't been there yet - "Little Girl Blue", it's a song that truly shows just how good her voice really was.
@@kshavon3098 it's so sad she passed so early in life. She's part of the 27 club. Nobody sings like Janis. She's 100% unique and sings with so much soul and raw ass emotion! As a teen, I wrote her song lyrics on my bedroom walls. Everyone was listening to New Kids on the Block and I was jammin to Janis! ❣️💁🏼♀️😂
There aren't many like her before or since that time. Talking about that raspy soul thing she did so well. The two that come to mind are both black women, which speaks to your point. Koko Taylor and Macy Gray are the two that I thought of. Though, I will say that all three are different, and they all got their own thing.
I saw Janis in the late 60s. Its good that her singing is still recognized as excellent. A damned shame that she died young. One piece of advice. Listen while stoned.
Great reaction, Janis was the Queen of Rock, this song is from the album "Cheap Thrills" w/ Janis and Big Brother, just react to every song on the album, you must order CD today, most classic San Francisco acid rock, love your energy, new sub, thumbs up!!
Hello I just have to say I loved your reaction. Had come across this click donick. Cause I liked the song and I was such a square is what they called me back in the day because I didn't smoke pot since I don't know anyone. It could be because I was Canadian and Al man. I love music. From before 1980 absolutely.Love it and I am so happy.You got to experience.She is from texas and is also a part of that twenty seven club
@@kshavon3098 thank you so much for your reply I have to tell you I know there's mistakes in grammar for some reason it will not let me correct it. I'm glad you got to react change the song God Bless take care🙏
She was gone WAY too soon - she & Jimi Hendrix- both died the same year - same age (27) 50 years ago and they both still influence and astound with their music . . . Welcome to the club. I was lucky enough to see her live, in Philly, in ‘67.
As the saying goes 'You ain't heard nothing yet'. You must see Janis' video doing "Ball and Chain". Also react to her singing "Anyway You Can", "Piece of My Heart". Love your reaction.
@@kshavon3098 Well, people will say it's because she had acne and she wasn't consider good-looking - but my impression is that it was more that she was eccentric - you know, a 'weirdo' - she was really into older Black music, i.e., the early Blues greats - and dressed her own way and did things her own way - so attracted some negativity. I also think it's possible that the negativity was exaggerated in her own perception of it - but I'm no kind of expert on her either ......
Maybe 'outcasted' wasn't the best terminology but its pretty much the same now-a-days...but in 1968 her tiny town in Texas turned their back on her & she was bullied coz she rebelled against the normality & was classified as a Feminist....i was an early teen when she passed over & remember it like yesterday...it was so sad world-wide 😓
