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 🇺🇸❤️👍
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!!
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 ua-cam.com/video/X1zFnyEe3nE/v-deo.html
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!!
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.
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 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
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.
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!
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.
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👍😎
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!!
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 ♥️
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
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 🤙☝️😌
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!!!
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 !
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!
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 🇳🇴
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!
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.
My ex and i have had janis as the focus of a long standing argument. To me, Janis is one of the most powerful female blues voices in our age. To her, my lady of soul was a screeching harpy. She was wrong, i was right, and I don't have to talk to her about it any more. I win, Janis ROCKS!!!
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
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.
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
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 :)
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
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. ua-cam.com/video/X1zFnyEe3nE/v-deo.htmlsi=_x4K_xRNMhSKxup8
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!
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! ❣️💁🏼♀️😂
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 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.
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🙏
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 🇺🇸❤️👍
Your face when Janis began to sing was priceless.
I laughed so hard at her face expression too! I was saying just wait! she is going to blow your mind!
Janis' training in singing involved her listening for years to blues singers like Bessie Smith, Odetta, Big Mama Thornton, Billie Holiday and Leadbelly.
Did not matter in the end! Janis was her own singer
She used to, as an underage high schooler, sneak in to watch Etta James back when Etta played bars and roadhouses in Texas.
I didn’t know that.
I love seeing people listen to Janis for the first time. Your reaction definitely did not disappoint!
WELL THANK U SO MUCH BABE!!!!!
@@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!!
@@Prone2Thrill THANK U
I'm old enough to remember Janis badass
One of the all -time best, most authentic, , spot on reactions.
Ball and chain at Monterrey pop fest. It was her "breakout" performance.. it will leave your jaw on the floor!!
OK THANK U♥️
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
ua-cam.com/video/X1zFnyEe3nE/v-deo.html
Mama Cass Elliot mouthing, "WOW!"
"Raw" is what I typically think of to describe Janis' voice. Just that raw human emotion.
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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.
THANK U
preach
AMEN ❤
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!!
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.
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!
LOL THATS A GOOD STORY!! IT DOPE BF THAT U GOT TO MEET ONE OF UR FAVORITE SINGERS! I WOULDNT HAVE WASH MY ARM FOR A YEAR LOL!!!!
@@kshavon3098 I know but my Grandma, My Kookum pulled me by ear and had to 🧼 🧽 wash!
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🤣🤣WELL DAMN!
😂😂😂. That's why I love watching your show!
So glad you're on board....better late than never girl! Janis is so dope and ever since the 60's...
YES SHE WAS♥️
If I had to choose only 10 songs and performances that I love the most, this song performed by Janis Joplin would be among them ❤
Love Janis. You can literally feel her sing
I loved your reaction!! If anyone doesn't feel Janis, they have no soul. I get goosebumps every single time I listen to her. Mad love
THANK U BF😘😘♥️
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
OK THANKS♥️♥️
Yaaasss😊
She’s amazing! You gotta check out her perform “work me lord” Live at stockholm, Sweden
Her voice moves souls🎶
YESSSSS
1969
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.
Janis Joplin Work Me Lord Live in Stockholm 1969 - this will blow you away more than she did here! Great reaction!
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!
@@deannacrownover3 Ditto! Certainly has to be in the top three of all her live performances. Seems a lot of people do sleep on this one. It's amazing!
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 🤙🏽🤟🏽✌🏽
SO SAD RIP TO HER. THANKS BESTIE ♥️
Imagine if she had lived who knows
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.
Awesome!
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👍😎
OK BET♥️♥️
SAW it on Broadway.. NICe!!
I've seen this Opera twice. Gerswing❤ was a great compositeur and the story is so beautiful and dramtic. I love it 💜
Agree, Porgy and Bess was a beautiful opera, well worth listening to.
I do love to see how the younger generation reacts to my girl. This was priceless.
AWE THANK U
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!!
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 ♥️
AWE GM!!!! THANK U SO MUCH BESTIE♥️♥️♥️♥️
Undeniably one of the few artists you can truly undeniably call one of the greatest of all time.
YELP 💯
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
THANK U
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 U 🙏🏾 ♥️♥️
Is that what Sinead O'Connor has going on - especially her first album where it sounds like she's harmonizing with herself?
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.
@@dianetalbot5806 lol ...most people sing notes, Janis sang chords 😄
Thank you K Shavon. I loved your reaction! Coming back
THANK U BOO😘
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 🤙☝️😌
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!!!
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 !
HEY BEST FRIEND FROM CANADA!!! THANK U BABE
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!
♥️💯
I love watching Janis take new listeners to church!❤️ She’s a total goddess!❤️✊
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 🇳🇴
YELP HER VOICE WAS AMAZING! SHOUT OUT UR COUNTRY BEST FRIEND!!!!!!!!!
A generational talent..Gone way too soon. RIP Janice.
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Great reaction. Janis was one of the most soulful performers of all time - up there with Franklin, Garland and Callas.
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!
🤣🤣🤣🤣THANK U 🙏🏾🙏🏾
@@kshavon3098 Anytime sweet sister!
I love the emotion in Janis and I love the emotion in your reactions. Best Janis reaction EVAH.
🤣🤣🤣THANKS BF♥️
That's the greatest female vocalist whoever lived
This is one of my favorite reactions of all time LOL. She feeeels Janis. Nice!
AYYYYEEEE!!!! THANK U😘😘🙏🏾
Love Janis and love your reaction hunny. Love love love. Please do more Janis,
AYYYYEEEE THANKS BF AND I GOTCHA
Janis is the Queen! She had such heartbreak in her life and gone far too damn soon!
Smart! Immaculate is a word and it fits perfectly!
LOL THANK U😘
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.
Loved it too! Best breath control ever! You can't tell us what her voice sounded like cause there was only one Janis!
Beautiful reaction. Love Janis
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.
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My ex and i have had janis as the focus of a long standing argument. To me, Janis is one of the most powerful female blues voices in our age. To her, my lady of soul was a screeching harpy. She was wrong, i was right, and I don't have to talk to her about it any more. I win, Janis ROCKS!!!
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!!
You are a sweet soul sister. Loved the Janice reaction.
THANK U
Janis gives me CHILLS! Been listening to her since 1971. LOVE
You feel every note she sangs!
YES U SAID IT RIGHT BESTIE
@@kshavon3098 Thanks My girl!
🍃🌺🍃🌺🍃🙏🏽🍃🌸🍃🌸
Maybe: studio version. Loved your reaction. 😁
THANK U
Best ever: Queen Janis!
Janis always let her band shine too.
Janis was full of passion! Great reaction! You also seem pretty passionate! Lol💙😁
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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 was the first woman rocker. She blew the doors off. She died when I was 14 ... I thought the world ended.
Your reaction is just as great as Janis' performance .... love it
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I've said it guys....this girl can feel the music. And who wouldn't feel emotional listening to a track like this.
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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
😂😭And she tells us not to cry, but this song makes me cry goddamnit !
the song is from "Porgy and Bess" a great play and has an all black cast.
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Yours is one of the best reactions I've ever seen!!!!!
U got a new sub from México!
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Janis is my favorite female blues singer of all time. You are a whole mood Ms. K Shavon🔥 And I got braces too! Adult braces gang 👌
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Preach young lady preach…sweet reaction..
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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 ♥
GM BEST FRIEND!!! WOW THAT IS DOPE AF!!!♥️♥️YES GIVE ME THE TEA!!
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
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.
HEY BEST FRIEND I TOTALLY AGREE💯💯BUT I NEVA HEARD OF KOKO TAYLOR
Check out Ball & Chain live, Monterey Jazz Festival....great reaction, ty
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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
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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 :)
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Loved your reaction so much! ☮☮🕊🕊☮☮🕊🕊☮☮
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Janis is the Queen of Rock and Elvis King of Rock...long before Jimi
Amen!!!
Fantastic Reaction my girl-Love you 💚
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Girl, You had me dead! Loved the reaction!❤
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You have got to listen Take Another Piece of my Heart.
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
HEY BESTIE NOPE I NEVA HEARD OF HER! U SAID “WAS” IS NO LONGER LIVING?
@@kshavon3098 yes Boo she died of a heroin over dose in 1970
Damn I just cried too
THATS SO SAD. THANKS BF
@@kshavon3098 I'm here for you Boo
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. ua-cam.com/video/X1zFnyEe3nE/v-deo.htmlsi=_x4K_xRNMhSKxup8
groovy feeling killer voice !!!!
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!
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This song is my "Mic Drop" for showing Passionate Singing at it's finest - Freddie Mercury and Joe Cocker come close but Janis is the queen!
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.
I sometimes still think I might cry that she left us so soon.
Darling. Not just Janis but you too 💝
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We have been listening since the 60's!!
WOW
New sub here. Janis was a beast! Queen of the Blues. My favorite singer period!
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@@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! ❣️💁🏼♀️😂
@@ladylisaromance8129 LOL HEY BESTIE WE ARE ALIKE!!! WE DONT FOLLOW THE TRENDS
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
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"Can Janis Joplin sing?".......Can you walk? Can you talk?...... LOL
She made you feel it.
YESSS!!
That is Little Queenie . The Queen of the Blues . Because B. B. and Albert King said so .
I LOVE YOU JANIS!
Janis didn't just take us to church, she WAS the church. ❤️🤘✌️
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Immaculate is a word
Janis sang her pain, like many great blues singers.
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.
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
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@@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🙏
More Janis please ♥️
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You can try Anouk, usually she sings alone but did a collab with postman. She has a powerful voice
A couple other amazing performances by Janis- Ball and Chain at Montery Pop and To Love Somebody on the Dick Cavette show
THANK U BEST FRIEND!!! IM THINKING BOUT REACTING TO BALL AND CHAIN, CAUSE I C ALOT SAYING THAT ONE
Okay girl...I'm subscribed lol!🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤
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@@kshavon3098 I will definitely try!
Great reaction right on point 😊
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"Ball and Chain" will knock your socks off!