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  • Whatever vocal ability this woman may have head was eclipsed and destroyed by drug use. Calling her a role model or a positive influence of any kind (for anyone) is really disgusting.

  • When I hear her laugh, I always think about "Mercedes Benz".

  • She was adorable to me, I don't understand why she thought she was ugly.

  • This is an interesting interview of Janis

  • I have this real, true feeling to be sincere when I say I love and miss you, dear. <3

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  • SHE IS GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I wish she hadn't went back to Port Arthur the last time. Anyone that's been misunderstood in life, can relate to Janis.

  • how can people judge her for her flaws and mistakes rather than prise her for her talent, i'll never understand this. it's such a missarable aproach to life. to me heartless critisism has killed more people than we can even imagine. and then we go blaming it to heroin or alcohol or drugs...

  • @charinetta You can judge for her flaws and mistakes because she took her great talent from us. She should have been more thoughtful of herself. I am very mad at her, Hendrix and Morrison.

  • @keaton1895 that is a very ignorant thought. it is the lifestyles that those people lived and experienced that enabled them to make the music for us to enjoy.

  • @madSHKRILLZerrrrt You and others are because you make excuses because they were selfish. The artists can have the experience without being stupid. You take Lennon for example, we lost him because he was murdered not from drugs.

  • Gotta love the size of her pupils XD

  • It's so sad Janis died she's one of the only hippies in the world I can stand. (Other than a few other 1960's artists.)

  • haha she's so drug addled

  • Janis is a GEM who shall ALWAYS BE MISSED.

  • just looking at her face and the way she speaks makes me think she was someone in a lot of pain

  • I loved the way she dressed!

  • I love her hair! It`s the same as mine.

  • Goddess,a Goddess i tell you!!

  • Janis Rocks wish she was still here with us

  • Yea dickweed interviewer she's so popular cause she's the ballsiest female singer that ever lived.

  • I found about about janis jolin years ago when I was looking for people born or died on my birthday...and there she was. great artist; didn't give a sh!t about fame, or being popular, or getting all dolled up. You think someone like lady gaga or beyonce would be as popular having to complete with women such as tina turner, janis, or grace slick?

  • about how old was she here/?

  • @yovillianify she was 26...

  • she is! i cant wait to join her beautiful soul.

  • Janis laughs at the popularity question because she wasn't in it for attention and paid that aspect no regard. Imagine days when music was made for the sake of art. Janis Joplin, what a true musician

  • @Didgeridoozie I think that's so true and regretibly, I don't think that Janis thought much of herself either, which is incredible to me! We never see ourself in the positive light that others do. Most of us tend to jump head first into believing the very worst that people have to say or think about us. Crazy huh? Either way, she was a rare gem, who because of a few insensitive "professional assholes" (pardon my french) who were cruel to her, had no sense of her own self-worth. Sad. Peace.

  • Remembering Janis today: January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970.

  • i wish she were alive...i love her....thanks for these great clips

  • I was born and raied in PA TX and most good people miss Janis, she was ahead of her time for our area. We have a concert every year and they always have a Janis rememorance band, same one for the last several shows. Please believe she is missed in her home town. Janis is the best and overall the people from PA respect what she did and I for 1 of many am proud to say she is from Port Arthur Texas!

  • her hair was awesome

  • Nothing wrong with Kelly Clarkson. But the difference between Kelly Clarkson and Janis Joplin is that Janis created herself--and then the media picked up on her.

    Whereas in the case of Kelly Clarkson, the media created her: she had to be what the producers wanted her to be: subject of the symbolic order. How could she be a creative individual?

  • she looks like andy warhol with a wig on

  • I love her! She was so wonderful and such an idol to me. =)

  • RIP: Janis Joplin 

  • Janis was an extremely intelligent woman, but high school was heartbreaking for her. Her devotion to black music/blues made her an outcast (this was Texas!) and she was voted Ugliest Girl. Even though she became famous, something dragged her down and heroin did her in shortly after I saw her at The Festival Express in Toronto (1970 - with her great Canadian musicians - The Full Tilt Boogie Band) She was so funny and sweet - giggling and inviting us all back to a party.

  • shes cool. did she die from drugs? shes got great beauty

  • Yes, in 1970....I'm pretty sure it was cocaine

  • Janis has been my favorite singer since I was eleven - when she was still alive. Man, I would give anything to have seen her in concert...

  • she had such a kind face and she was a pure soul.

  • I FREAKING LOVE HER HAIR!!! i WANT her hair! and man, janis was and still is, RIP, one STAND UP lady. so what she had her problems, who the hell doesnt? but dammit, she did what she wanted to do professionally, and her music and love for it always came before anything else she did. fuck you port arthur for not knowing what a flower in the sun you had!

  • @volchaise

    I so agree with you. Janis did her own thing, and paved the way for other women in rock, and in general. She paid a price for her honesty and good heart, and never did find peace of mind. In a way, she passed away at least knowing that she really made it, and was a star in her own right, and no one has been able to compare to her yet.

    Love u Janis - rock on forever..

  • 'do you have any explanation of why you're so popular?' (laughs)

  • I love her natural hair...it's much more beautiful than the over-processed, bleached-out, thin, "feathered" crap people wear today!

  • Love her!

  • incredible combination of raw talent and courage

  • lovely lovely

  • Its unusual, but when you watch the young performers of the 60s (Janis, Jimi, Jim, the Beatles, etc) they all speak very well...calm and thoughtful. I dont want to say that the rough life matured them beyond their years, because that doesn't make you well-spoken. I think people back then had both manners and a larger vocabulary. Stars these days sound like morons in comparison.

  • @StrangeBrewJT Especially Hip-Hop artists.

  • Janis Joplin > queens,kings,presidents and pop culture

  • aw man.... words cant explain how much i wish i hung around with her... just the emotion she gave on stage.. uhh man... id give everything to see her preform... one day man... one day ill join her

  • she roolz.

    what an unfortunate loss.

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  • Prejudice helped to destroy Janice.The recent blogs detracts from the real issue- that her talent shines on .Beauty is in the eye /ear of the beholder so why destroy another innocent girl? behave yourselves bloggers and show a little RESPECT.

  • Leadbelly is the shit........the animals song house of the rising sun was a song originally written by leadbelly

  • isn't she lovely :)

  • @irishjanet sure is-she is an absolute angel-then and of course ;now.

  • i didnt know so many janis fans were music snobs who cant open there eyes to other great music, thats sad.

  • just because you don't know what great music is doesn't mean you have to bitch about us not liking your shit bands

  • why are you so negative about music? its not like you can be the best at art....music is such a big thing, its sad you cant open your mind to other kinds. i never said you had to like what i like, but you should at least respect other kinds of music and respect other people who enjoy other kinds. im sure janis was big enough of a person to do so. but im not going to argue with you anymore, its not really worth my time if you dont listen and your just rude about it.

  • i'm in no way, shape, or form negative about music. i was only being rude because you were being rude first. i couldn't care less about what kinds of music people listen to, but i don't respect artists who are just in it for fame and fortune. kelly may have talent, but she was handed everything through american idol. to me, she just blends in with the rest of the music industry today. she isn't really creative, it's just the same old pop stuff that we've listened to for the past decade.

  • maybe so, but kelly clarkson is not great music by any stretch of the imagination.

  • dear sweet Pearl...wow, long time gone...you were beautiful and you never knew it....Trust In Me Baby, that song used to make me cry, your voice was the dove that carried you, and your adorable lil cackling laff....RIP Pearl....x

  • sister

  • wow joepatrick55 you really should get more into music. and open your eyes.

    maybe you were being funny.

    by the way, kelly clarkson sucks.  and also, its widely known that she sucks satan's cock. how do you think she got famous?

  • I love her

  • I love her so much.. so truthful... nowadays nobody nobody is so natural and fresh and real... it's all fake all lies. Love her... she's a goddess... her music really moves me. She did so much for us women!!

  • i agree

  • Kelly Clarksons music has no soul, just mediocre stuff like most of the music now.

  • you'd be surprised. go look up kelly clarkson singing patti griffins up to the mountian...shes different then other artists today...people just stereotype, and she loves and appreciates janis's music

  • kelly clarkson is shit compared to Janis. kelly is mainstrem pop. i mean being on american idol is just a fucking cry for attention and publicity. Janis worked her way up to the top and she's stayed at the top for over 40 year now.

  • You are ignorant. kelly is every genre you can think of, youd know that if you actually knew what kind of artist she was. and she was on the very first american idol, before it was huge so you cant say she was on there for attention. so pretty much everything you said is retarded. learn your facts and then talk. janis is an incredible artist though, ill give her that.

  • YOU'RE retarded for comparing a washed up trashy artist to Janis Joplin. i know what kind of artist kelly is. she's mainstream pop, like i said. going on any reality tv show in order to try to win a record deal is a cry for attention. you do that kind of shit to get your name out there. Janis was purely about the music. she wasn't rich and she didn't care about how many records she sold or how famous she was. i bet in another 30 years, nobody will even know who kelly clarkson is.

  • I think he is saying that Janis was unique with her singing, she put so much heart and passion into every note she sang, she truly had soul when she sang. He is just saying no other artists today are like that with their music. While Kelly does have a great voice and does put emotion into her singing, it just could never compare to the passion Janis put into her music.

  • i agree with everything said about janis. however im sure all the people on here talking negatively about kelly have not actually heard all of her music. or have listened to her live performances. ive watched kelly and janis. i guess we will all just have to agree to disagree on this one.

  • Amen!

  • This clip is from the film documentary "Janis". I have it on VHS, but it has never been released on DVD. I wish somebody'd get that act together and put it out on DVD with lots of extras. This is a touching, moving interview of Janis. God! No b.s. Just pure honesty, no pretense, like her singing. Janis, after all these years, I still miss you. Somehow the world was a better place when you were alive.

  • Watching this always makes me so wistful . . . .

  • My parents also want me to be a school teacher

  • such an inspiration.

  • desde chile ...eres hermosa janis

  • There was so much sadness in here, and on her, all around her.

  • she was so forward with her answers, she never tried to be someone else, only herself, she even shared her pain... she's a magnificent woman.

  • why did u die??

    u must be here yet! :((

    we love u, janis! ♥

  • It is sad how her hometown made her feel so worthless.She seemed like a nice person to know.

  • Texas produced the Bush clan.

     enough said.

  • no, its not enough said.

    Texas also produced bill hicks richard linklater wes anderson willie nelson townes van zandt buddy holly the city of Austin and on and on...

    and the elder Bush grew up in the northeast.

    I have actually been to texas. and while its not the place for me (neither is america), you should know that there are some great fucking texans out there.

    you would do better not to judge a group of people based on some of citizens. it shows a deep lack of of understanding.

  • thank you. as a fellow texan and lover of all the dudes aforementioned thanks for saying that. damn cool

  • That last question that Janis laughed at..."Do you have any explanation why you are so popular."

    When she was in school she was ridiculed and laughed at. I'm sure she didn't feel popular then.

    Love you Janis. :)

  • Has anyone ever read 'going down with Janis' by Peggy Caserta? It's wild!!!

  • I just think she wanted to be loved

  • Haha I love the way she sought freedom elsewhere and thought going back to her hometown was a bummer, i can totally relate to that. man i love janis, what a great human being. a real human being.

  • When Waz This On VH1 Classic I Watch It All The Time And Ive Never Seen This! I LUV JANIS SHE ROX!

    PEACE LUV AND ROCK AND ROLL!

  • YES, that Biography is amazing!I loved every inch of it!Janis Joplin is absolutely amazing!Love to Janis so much!One of the most talented women singer's during that time!And Yes I believe what she said what true, San Fransisco was so much more freer. It sure is. My hometown!And I wouldn't live here for anything.

    May she Rest In Peace!

  • I absolutely love Janis, I just got done reading the biography written by her sister, Laura. I was crying by the third page...what a wonderful lady Janis J was! (:

  • Dylan and Janis shoulda made a record, ho lee foooook!!

  • She has such a beautiful smile :) Her eyes look very sad sometimes tho

  • i love way she laughs :p

  • wooooo im born there!!

  • I read that she found out she could sing when she and some of her friends were in a lighthouse and she tried singing and heard her voice in the echos of the lighthouse and ran out screaming, I can sing! I can sing! How exciting that must have been for her, and now, for those around her to have been there when she discovered she could sing. I wish I was there. Thanks for posting this interview. Peace.

  • kurt cobain liked leadbelly

  • I always found Janis sexy dont know what it was about her. But wow!!

  • Yeah I think so.. I should think a lot of it is to do with her self-confidence and her free spirit.. that's my take anyway!

  • In one of the books I read about Janis she told Myra Friedman that the only time she felt beautiful is when she was on stage. I think when she performed she exuded sexuality and people were drawn to her because she dared to open a window into her soul every time she sang. It was incredibly intense to see her and it felt like you were really experiencing something amazing. Peace.

  • Yeah definitely.. When someone is that honest & you can tell the musician is really getting into their music is makes all the difference.

    She was one of a kind.

    I totally get what she means about feeling beautiful on stage... I feel like a different person when I'm playing.

    One hell of a woman.

  • I agree

  • the same

  • @grooveon39 Same! I think its her smile and the way she talks :) 

  • @grooveon39

    Power and fame,

    Love is always about power sad truth...

  • Love her laugh at the end!

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