We are studing it right now in the university . for me i didn't like the song ^^" . but the subject i think it's was important for Americans so i can understand that .
I had the previlage to work with Jimmi Miller (producer) on my project an we talked on Janis and how he got her produced ...Excelant artist and tune ...Great message........
It's very hard to be married to the same color and even if you both believe in God Who created the heavens and the earth and all thay is in the of the own kind not alone being married totaly out of you relam, you people need to get real and try being married most of you have not been there or you would know and not be writing such stupid comments like I see here. joe
Preachers of equality. If they believe it, why don't they just let us be? Because, having travelled the world, there are individuals that can only see their "kind" as superior. So sad.
Isn't it strange that it took the rest of us more than 40 yrs to recognize the genius of this song, while little 13 y/o Janis had it altogether way back in the '60s? Many radio stations refused to play this, and I undrsnd some which did got big trouble from their locals. It was a short-lived big hit back then (if you can picture such a thing today). You had to be somewhat defiant to ascribe to this sort of thing back then. Oh, how the times, they are a-changin'.
@FLSHBK1 you know what's funny, is that race is so arbitary. if janis called herself black, most people would accept it. she could "pass", with relative ease. just goes to show, how sad and stupid the whole construct of race is. love this tune !
@brainsareus Yeah, she's 100% Jew, raised in Joisey and NYC. Her family name was Fink and she adopted the stage name of Ian. I suppose she could have passed for black in the '60s but not sure if that would have helped or hindered her career. Her music is great and her message was considered outrageously ahead of its time back then. I kept hearing general stories of radio stations which had really bad things happen to them for playing this, but I never get specific locations of burned stations?
@FLSHBK1 very sad,either way, right,that race is so contentious. she's a gorgeous soul,and i love her. i'm a dude, and for those that don't know, she's gay,and bless her,because she is an artist. btw,FLSHBK,i know much of her back story. i know you can't know what i know or don't know,so thank you for putting that out there. i'd just be wary, of calling people 100% anything,because the notion of ethnic purity, is neither realistic nor desirable. have a great new year,be well.
@FLSHBK1 I grew up in the rural midwest. I can assure you that radio stations in my region would not touch the record. I heard it only on stations in Chicago and New York. You seem, sadly, to have a problem with Ms. Ian's ethnic heritage. Perhaps you should go back and listen to the song a few more times. She is a wonderful teacher.
@kenhamlett1 How do you figure I have a problem with her heritage??? I was responding to others who asserted her song referred to her "lesbianism" or to her "interracial parents", neither of which is true. "SADLY", you seem to have a problem with Reading Comprehension. And BTW, I've been listening to the song since 1965, thank you very much. Perhaps you should kiss off.
I agree. The term and perception of "race" is a social construct. To be quite specific, it is not even a scientifically accepted classification among humans; It hasn't been for a very long time ('no taxonomic significance'). There is only a single race, the human race.
It is a shame that many people are still ignorant of that fact! Much like the narrator's mother and peers in this song.
@Condestruction And yet they still use it as a way of separating people. I once said to a White supervisor (I'm Puerto Rican) that there was only once race of people, human, and she took a puff of an imaginary joint and made the peace sign. I guess she was making the point that that belief of 'one race' is something that came out of the sixties.
This song is a masterpiece, just as special and original as the first time we had the pleasure of hearing it. 1967 I believe, Janus takes you to a place where your heart can rest for a while and bask in the SUN she creates with such a beautifully original and socially bold melody. This song was like a door to a place your soul longed for. THANK GOD for artists like Janus Ian!
I'm not racist just to let you know, I always thought this song was about a white woman dating a black man, because even in the early 70's it was still controversal to have them date, now days no one minds. I myself don't mind people are people, but back then they saw it differently.
If you are ever able to hear any of her interviews about the uproar this song caused, and what she endured for writing, recording and performing it...whew! Really inspiring!
Courage. Boatloads of courage here. And from an industry that rarely demonstrated anything other than safe, safe, safe. Janis and this song are a whole lot better than we deserved.
i saw her perform this at what i think was called the Village Theatre [later Fillmore east]. She was about 15 or 16. i might have been 18. Have dug her voice and writing ever since.
i searched for this song all day long yesterday, and no one knew this song. finally "sixtiespopgold" told me, and i didn't believe him. i thought he was confusing it with "at 17" because i never knew this was by her too!! amazing janice ian. and i thought because of that song "at 17" that she really was disfigured. man was i way wrong about that all these years! .... she's just fine!!! lol
I'm 53 years old and only heard -and saw - this performed for the 1st time a couple of weeks ago while watching an old documentary from 1967 where Leonard Bernstein (yeh him) is giving an appreciation of pop/rock. At then end of a fascinating prog he highlights this song and introduces its 15 year old composer who then performs it live. Blew me away.
My mother was Japanese and My father was Australian, it was unusual in Australia and though there was a little bit of racism towards them but the majority seemed happy for them. Although one church didn't allow them to get married in it but that was to do with their not belonging to the same religion.
Janis is a lesbian. A New York Times article years ago discussed her life in Nashville and her relationship with her lesbian lover (now spouse). The following quote is from Wikipedia. "Ian married Portuguese filmmaker Tino Sargo in 1978; they divorced in 1983. .... After moving to Nashville, she met Patricia Snyder in 1989. Ian has a stepdaughter by Snyder, and two grandchildren.[18] Snyder and Ian were married in Toronto on August 27, 2003."
You know Con, I believe I am at least 80% right about the lesbian lisp because throughout the years I've either met lesbians at work or suspected a celebrity who happened to have a lisp whom at the end came out of the closet. However, I tell you what, I never ever thought that Janis was a lesbian until another Youtube user said so. So my mistake was to assume that that idiot's difamation was true! However, I appologize to her, and I tell you I am really happy that she's straight! :)
@Managuense1 she did a radio interview when she said she was a lesbian and she wrote a song about it something about the juice running down her leg was that a put on i dont know
I guess I knew this song because my Brother had the 45, we played it all the time. Back then I did not know what it was about, just liked the tune, especially the end, Now it means so much more, Her story is amazing.
Leonard Bernstein said that over 99% of pop/rock music was garbage, and that "Society's Child" was a perfect example of the less than one percent that had meaning and musical relevance.
Weird thing for a black man in his 50s to admit, but I was completely unaware of this song until the late '70s when I was in college playing oldies songs for their radio station! When it first came out, I was 7 or 8 and my next door neighbors were an interracial couple (husband was a black army veteran, wife a German who spoke excellent English) with two bi-racial daughters. It wasn't until I went to college when I encountered controversy on this subject! Nurture vs nature, maybe. Powerful song
I heard it when I was only eleven at Summer recreation program at a rec hall. Teenage Girl brought her guitar to sing for our group-She sang this song~Once-it was one of those things- I knew it memorized after only once-at 11 yrs. old yet-~it moved me so much so it wrote on my Soul and forever changed who I was. Never underestimate the power of music to change the world. This song was very relevant at the time and still is..just scratch the surface-still plenty of bigoted minds to go around..
I liked it back then - still do.. have it on cd. It was how it was back then... and after JFK, RFK, & MLK were MURDERED.. young black & white were coming together - united for EQUALITY for EVERYBODY..!! And - by the MILLIONS...!!! The protests against the horrors of wars.. racism.. and who & what were behind it all.. the very same creeps that murdered those great people...!!! And guess what..? They WON.. and they worked very.. very hard for years and years.. to DIVIDE this nation AGAIN
@Century25 I agree with you: those monsters worked hard at keeping hatred, suffering, and abuse alive! Had it been the opposite we would have a normal, happier society without such terrible past and many destroyed lives and spirits, and waisted resources! The good thing is that we now have a black president and many blacks have been born in prosperity and many whites have realized that we have to live and let live.
@wickedpinto Janis Eddy Fink was born in NYC to an all-Jew family. They moved to Joisey and raised her there. Her Dad was a musician and her Mom ran a summer camp in the Catskills. She took the stage name "Ian" for her recordings. There's nothing interracial about her parents.
To okicuru12 What does a writer's sexual orientation have to do with their ability to write a song, or prose, for that matter? Have you ever read any non-fiction in the course of your unenlightened life? A good writer has an imagination, a heightened sense of all things that surround them, and the ability to observe and with detail and nuance, descriptively re-tells an experience, event, etc. Ian does just that - lesbian or not. Please go back under the rock from which you crawled, homophobe!
@okicuru12 that is so stupid,she has been with men,quite a bit early in life. do you read ? and even if she is gay,who gives a shit. some people have an imagination,you apparently don't.
@mike4asianwoman I am way off???????Fuck you too asshole,go to hell.I was listening to this song wnen you were still swimming around in your fathers scrotum!!!!!!!
@msnicole74 this is true,she was with dudes once upon a time. but guess what,it don't fucking matter either way. she kicks ass as a great artist,no matter what.
@okicuru12 Wow! Is she a lesbian? Hm, I tell what, somehow on her song "At Seventeen" I noticed a really slight lisp typical of many lesbians. Also, back in the 70's and 80's I always noticed that Jodie Foster at times had a manly stride and a lisp (way before gay awareness). But back then I didn't think much about it because many girls are tomboys when young but turn femenine in their teens when they begin noticing boys! :) So, no offense, but I guess it's true that there's a lesbian lisp.
this song is soo deep and meaningful <3 even for my time era... similar stuff like this is still going on today. this song is very sad yet beautiful ..
This is SO MUCH MORE than a song, Janis saw it, felt and expressed with her own heart, I Love her very much. Thank's. I have the 45rpm and always end up playing it, when the ol' turntable comes out again.
you can buy turntable, mp3, cassette, cd player at some Drugstores like CVS, SAVon, and Riteaid or on EBAY. i saw it was a vintage old timey radio one for like 60 dollars in the sale paper. Also check online. they are BACK honey.
It's about a forbidden interracial realtionship
Texfield91 2 weeks ago
We are studing it right now in the university . for me i didn't like the song ^^" . but the subject i think it's was important for Americans so i can understand that .
ABDULRHMAN 3 weeks ago
I had the previlage to work with Jimmi Miller (producer) on my project an we talked on Janis and how he got her produced ...Excelant artist and tune ...Great message........
bendemmusic1 3 weeks ago
It's very hard to be married to the same color and even if you both believe in God Who created the heavens and the earth and all thay is in the of the own kind not alone being married totaly out of you relam, you people need to get real and try being married most of you have not been there or you would know and not be writing such stupid comments like I see here. joe
ncchestnut 1 month ago
Preachers of equality. If they believe it, why don't they just let us be? Because, having travelled the world, there are individuals that can only see their "kind" as superior. So sad.
70sGuy100 2 months ago
Isn't it strange that it took the rest of us more than 40 yrs to recognize the genius of this song, while little 13 y/o Janis had it altogether way back in the '60s? Many radio stations refused to play this, and I undrsnd some which did got big trouble from their locals. It was a short-lived big hit back then (if you can picture such a thing today). You had to be somewhat defiant to ascribe to this sort of thing back then. Oh, how the times, they are a-changin'.
FLSHBK1 2 months ago
@FLSHBK1 you know what's funny, is that race is so arbitary. if janis called herself black, most people would accept it. she could "pass", with relative ease. just goes to show, how sad and stupid the whole construct of race is. love this tune !
brainsareus 2 months ago
@brainsareus Yeah, she's 100% Jew, raised in Joisey and NYC. Her family name was Fink and she adopted the stage name of Ian. I suppose she could have passed for black in the '60s but not sure if that would have helped or hindered her career. Her music is great and her message was considered outrageously ahead of its time back then. I kept hearing general stories of radio stations which had really bad things happen to them for playing this, but I never get specific locations of burned stations?
FLSHBK1 2 months ago
@FLSHBK1 very sad,either way, right,that race is so contentious. she's a gorgeous soul,and i love her. i'm a dude, and for those that don't know, she's gay,and bless her,because she is an artist. btw,FLSHBK,i know much of her back story. i know you can't know what i know or don't know,so thank you for putting that out there. i'd just be wary, of calling people 100% anything,because the notion of ethnic purity, is neither realistic nor desirable. have a great new year,be well.
brainsareus 2 months ago
@brainsareus OK, thnx.
FLSHBK1 2 months ago
@FLSHBK1 I grew up in the rural midwest. I can assure you that radio stations in my region would not touch the record. I heard it only on stations in Chicago and New York. You seem, sadly, to have a problem with Ms. Ian's ethnic heritage. Perhaps you should go back and listen to the song a few more times. She is a wonderful teacher.
kenhamlett1 1 month ago
@kenhamlett1 How do you figure I have a problem with her heritage??? I was responding to others who asserted her song referred to her "lesbianism" or to her "interracial parents", neither of which is true. "SADLY", you seem to have a problem with Reading Comprehension. And BTW, I've been listening to the song since 1965, thank you very much. Perhaps you should kiss off.
FLSHBK1 1 month ago
@brainsareus
I agree. The term and perception of "race" is a social construct. To be quite specific, it is not even a scientifically accepted classification among humans; It hasn't been for a very long time ('no taxonomic significance'). There is only a single race, the human race.
It is a shame that many people are still ignorant of that fact! Much like the narrator's mother and peers in this song.
Condestruction 1 month ago
@Condestruction And yet they still use it as a way of separating people. I once said to a White supervisor (I'm Puerto Rican) that there was only once race of people, human, and she took a puff of an imaginary joint and made the peace sign. I guess she was making the point that that belief of 'one race' is something that came out of the sixties.
adelgado75 2 days ago
The most courageous song released in the middle of the 1960s...better than we deserved at the time. Still packs a sting!
hbailen 2 months ago 2
@wickedpinto: She is the child of 2 middle-class, caucasian Jewish parents. Try to get your facts straight.
MichaelAndros1 2 months ago
what a great woman! Fantastic singer and writer and a hell of a character. Respect.
edenic 3 months ago 2
Remember this blasting out of the car radio like it was yesterday. Musically the 60's were an eclectic musical gas!
crazyromanian1 4 months ago 2
@crazyromanian1 Yeah, 93 KHJ!
KOACAINE 2 months ago
@KOACAINE What city was than?
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Profound. I was single digit age in the 60's but do remember the latter part of the 60's
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didn't knew this song!
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13 years old.. genius
SuperLulzinator 6 months ago
This song is a masterpiece, just as special and original as the first time we had the pleasure of hearing it. 1967 I believe, Janus takes you to a place where your heart can rest for a while and bask in the SUN she creates with such a beautifully original and socially bold melody. This song was like a door to a place your soul longed for. THANK GOD for artists like Janus Ian!
ferreestudios 6 months ago 2
The Anthem ( GangStarr)
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RisingAllMinds 6 months ago
@RisingAllMinds word up !
torchLo 5 months ago
I'm not racist just to let you know, I always thought this song was about a white woman dating a black man, because even in the early 70's it was still controversal to have them date, now days no one minds. I myself don't mind people are people, but back then they saw it differently.
ChaosControl1997 6 months ago
I used play this song over and over and over again back in the day. Still stirs my heart when I hear it.
Rustydymon 6 months ago 4
If you are ever able to hear any of her interviews about the uproar this song caused, and what she endured for writing, recording and performing it...whew! Really inspiring!
VABkWrm 6 months ago 5
i love the harpsichord in the beg, and the organ at the end....
brainsareus 6 months ago
masterpiece
brainsareus 6 months ago
it happen to janis in her life, she wrote about it, true story
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Courage. Boatloads of courage here. And from an industry that rarely demonstrated anything other than safe, safe, safe. Janis and this song are a whole lot better than we deserved.
hbailen 7 months ago
it dont matter if a person i STRAIT OR GAY!! THIS 2011!!!
stalkingwolf1954 7 months ago
this was REALLY about her being GAY!! something no one talked about in those days ,she said tis in a 1978 interview!!
stalkingwolf1954 7 months ago
i saw her perform this at what i think was called the Village Theatre [later Fillmore east]. She was about 15 or 16. i might have been 18. Have dug her voice and writing ever since.
cuneo1950 7 months ago
Guru - the anthem -> sampled
Gabrielregalado2 7 months ago
i searched for this song all day long yesterday, and no one knew this song. finally "sixtiespopgold" told me, and i didn't believe him. i thought he was confusing it with "at 17" because i never knew this was by her too!! amazing janice ian. and i thought because of that song "at 17" that she really was disfigured. man was i way wrong about that all these years! .... she's just fine!!! lol
m1kewithaone 7 months ago
I'm 53 years old and only heard -and saw - this performed for the 1st time a couple of weeks ago while watching an old documentary from 1967 where Leonard Bernstein (yeh him) is giving an appreciation of pop/rock. At then end of a fascinating prog he highlights this song and introduces its 15 year old composer who then performs it live. Blew me away.
MrPoupard 7 months ago
My mother was Japanese and My father was Australian, it was unusual in Australia and though there was a little bit of racism towards them but the majority seemed happy for them. Although one church didn't allow them to get married in it but that was to do with their not belonging to the same religion.
IanTC12 7 months ago
Janis is a lesbian. A New York Times article years ago discussed her life in Nashville and her relationship with her lesbian lover (now spouse). The following quote is from Wikipedia. "Ian married Portuguese filmmaker Tino Sargo in 1978; they divorced in 1983. .... After moving to Nashville, she met Patricia Snyder in 1989. Ian has a stepdaughter by Snyder, and two grandchildren.[18] Snyder and Ian were married in Toronto on August 27, 2003."
1984macintosh 8 months ago 2
You know Con, I believe I am at least 80% right about the lesbian lisp because throughout the years I've either met lesbians at work or suspected a celebrity who happened to have a lisp whom at the end came out of the closet. However, I tell you what, I never ever thought that Janis was a lesbian until another Youtube user said so. So my mistake was to assume that that idiot's difamation was true! However, I appologize to her, and I tell you I am really happy that she's straight! :)
Managuense1 8 months ago
@Managuense1 she did a radio interview when she said she was a lesbian and she wrote a song about it something about the juice running down her leg was that a put on i dont know
spacepatrolman 7 months ago
0 dislikes.. that's about right :)
joe133322 8 months ago 2
I guess I knew this song because my Brother had the 45, we played it all the time. Back then I did not know what it was about, just liked the tune, especially the end, Now it means so much more, Her story is amazing.
nutballgazette 9 months ago
Leonard Bernstein said that over 99% of pop/rock music was garbage, and that "Society's Child" was a perfect example of the less than one percent that had meaning and musical relevance.
billyjoeboomboom 9 months ago 2
@billyjoeboomboom The song was banned except for murry the k playing it on the radio and bernstein having her on his tv special
spacepatrolman 7 months ago
Weird thing for a black man in his 50s to admit, but I was completely unaware of this song until the late '70s when I was in college playing oldies songs for their radio station! When it first came out, I was 7 or 8 and my next door neighbors were an interracial couple (husband was a black army veteran, wife a German who spoke excellent English) with two bi-racial daughters. It wasn't until I went to college when I encountered controversy on this subject! Nurture vs nature, maybe. Powerful song
Elric33239 9 months ago
WOW,LIKE THE JANIS AT 1:26 IS SO GODDAMN SEXY.The other photos just show how this woman has matured very sexual.I love you Miss Ian!!!
mike4asianwoman 9 months ago
I heard it when I was only eleven at Summer recreation program at a rec hall. Teenage Girl brought her guitar to sing for our group-She sang this song~Once-it was one of those things- I knew it memorized after only once-at 11 yrs. old yet-~it moved me so much so it wrote on my Soul and forever changed who I was. Never underestimate the power of music to change the world. This song was very relevant at the time and still is..just scratch the surface-still plenty of bigoted minds to go around..
2patrock 10 months ago
I liked it back then - still do.. have it on cd. It was how it was back then... and after JFK, RFK, & MLK were MURDERED.. young black & white were coming together - united for EQUALITY for EVERYBODY..!! And - by the MILLIONS...!!! The protests against the horrors of wars.. racism.. and who & what were behind it all.. the very same creeps that murdered those great people...!!! And guess what..? They WON.. and they worked very.. very hard for years and years.. to DIVIDE this nation AGAIN
Century25 10 months ago
@Century25 I agree with you: those monsters worked hard at keeping hatred, suffering, and abuse alive! Had it been the opposite we would have a normal, happier society without such terrible past and many destroyed lives and spirits, and waisted resources! The good thing is that we now have a black president and many blacks have been born in prosperity and many whites have realized that we have to live and let live.
Managuense1 10 months ago
I remember when this song was blacklisted and banned on AM New York radio
redonionsauce 10 months ago
@redonionsauce I dont remember that.77WABC Played this song all the time.I remember.Well it dont matter.I know i bought the 45
mike4asianwoman 10 months ago
@redonionsauce yes, it was
redonionsauce 9 months ago
that's my girl,i don't give a shit who she beds down with. it ain't none of my business...her music speaks for itself......
brainsareus 11 months ago
Hey okicuru12 nice comment, you're an insensitive ignoramus.
stationranger 11 months ago
I like this song. I knows the words. I'll post a video of me sing it.
Coolshows101 11 months ago
wow she is gay??who fucking cares.can you write a song half as good as this??
mike4asianwoman 11 months ago 2
@mike4asianwoman Well said!
thaizascythosaskand 11 months ago
@thaizascythosaskand Thank you so much.You have common sense and are very understanding.Thank you to feel like i as so many others do.Bless you
mike4asianwoman 11 months ago
@mike4asianwoman Aww thanks!
thaizascythosaskand 11 months ago
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rg3855 11 months ago
color doesn't matter, I just don't want to see you anymore....baby.
TheSpottyBody 11 months ago
@okiuru12, She's the child of an interracial relationship you jackhole. It's an envisioning of her parents.
wickedpinto 1 year ago 3
@wickedpinto Janis Eddy Fink was born in NYC to an all-Jew family. They moved to Joisey and raised her there. Her Dad was a musician and her Mom ran a summer camp in the Catskills. She took the stage name "Ian" for her recordings. There's nothing interracial about her parents.
FLSHBK1 2 months ago
@FLSHBK1 So? That does not change the message or the power of the song.
kenhamlett1 1 month ago
@twowaystreet101
Seems my response to boo66 should have listed you primarily.
okicuru12 1 year ago
@boo66 Seems a raw nerve was plucked. The post was in response to "a true story piece" & the belief of some it was her actual experience.
I like the song, think Janis is a very talented artist, and am most certainly not a homophobe,
I'm afraid your knee jerk response was a bit crude and way overblown.
okicuru12 1 year ago
To okicuru12 What does a writer's sexual orientation have to do with their ability to write a song, or prose, for that matter? Have you ever read any non-fiction in the course of your unenlightened life? A good writer has an imagination, a heightened sense of all things that surround them, and the ability to observe and with detail and nuance, descriptively re-tells an experience, event, etc. Ian does just that - lesbian or not. Please go back under the rock from which you crawled, homophobe!
twowaystreet101 1 year ago 3
peace and love
Bamafandave3450 1 year ago
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she is a lesbian. how genuine can the lyrics be considering this fact?
okicuru12 1 year ago
@okicuru12 What's that to do with anything? Sort your head out!
boo66 1 year ago
@okicuru12 that is so stupid,she has been with men,quite a bit early in life. do you read ? and even if she is gay,who gives a shit. some people have an imagination,you apparently don't.
brainsareus 1 year ago
@okicuru12 she wasn't when this song was made, she didn't turn lesbo till the 80's
loki2stunt 11 months ago
@okicuru12 I am not gay .I fucking care about the music.Not who sings it.Wow you were way off.ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mike4asianwoman 11 months ago
@mike4asianwoman I am way off???????Fuck you too asshole,go to hell.I was listening to this song wnen you were still swimming around in your fathers scrotum!!!!!!!
mike4asianwoman 11 months ago
@okicuru12 And she couldn't have been singing about this from personal experience? Mayhaps she wasn't always a lesbian.
msnicole74 11 months ago
@msnicole74 this is true,she was with dudes once upon a time. but guess what,it don't fucking matter either way. she kicks ass as a great artist,no matter what.
brainsareus 11 months ago
@okicuru12 Burn in your little imaginary hell you little bigot♥
SailorCobaltStar 11 months ago
@okicuru12 Wow! Is she a lesbian? Hm, I tell what, somehow on her song "At Seventeen" I noticed a really slight lisp typical of many lesbians. Also, back in the 70's and 80's I always noticed that Jodie Foster at times had a manly stride and a lisp (way before gay awareness). But back then I didn't think much about it because many girls are tomboys when young but turn femenine in their teens when they begin noticing boys! :) So, no offense, but I guess it's true that there's a lesbian lisp.
Managuense1 10 months ago
@Managuense1
I think you're probably wrong on the whole "lesbian lisp" thing... she's been married... with children.
ShadowsGathered 8 months ago
this song is soo deep and meaningful <3 even for my time era... similar stuff like this is still going on today. this song is very sad yet beautiful ..
captainberries25 1 year ago 2
A monster masterpiece, a true story piece, 15 years old? WoW
fredschmidt100 1 year ago
16 years old!
searayus1 1 year ago 2
excellent sound quality. Thanks for posting!
marksmail2 1 year ago 5
beautiful amazing socially progressive tune
brainsareus 1 year ago 12
I cant believe i had the luck to find this on youtube. Thanks for posting.
ruapraia 1 year ago 7
This song has too much meaning for me,I'm sad to say.
sladest72 1 year ago 9
She was far ahead of the times, incredible especially for such a young person!
delago10 1 year ago 8
@delago10 Hi, Was? Janis Still is! She has Just finished a Tour in Japan, later this year,2011, will be in Europe & the UK!
eddyfinkful 1 year ago
This is SO MUCH MORE than a song, Janis saw it, felt and expressed with her own heart, I Love her very much. Thank's. I have the 45rpm and always end up playing it, when the ol' turntable comes out again.
bythebytheway 2 years ago 31
@bythebytheway : Me too! I have this 45 as well. I've always loved this song.
krummcutie 1 year ago 17
@bythebytheway
you can buy turntable, mp3, cassette, cd player at some Drugstores like CVS, SAVon, and Riteaid or on EBAY. i saw it was a vintage old timey radio one for like 60 dollars in the sale paper. Also check online. they are BACK honey.
WonderWomanFan4life 1 year ago 10