Janis

May 09, 2009 22:02

Zapping I just chanced on a documentary on Janis. As in Joplin. And remembered that I love Aretha Franklin - and James Brown - but Janis is beyond words. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxdCWdaUv18 - Read more... )

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aurorasinistra May 9 2009, 20:39:23 UTC
Her singing was raw emotion. I'm not sure the emotions would have been so raw/stark/dark/haunted without the pain that caused her to turn to drugs and alcohol...

I think, straightened up, she would have still had the basis of that emotion in her. It is so sad that her light in this realm was extinguished too soon. I have faith she sings on elsewhere.

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