15 Women Who Rock With the Best

There's something enchanting about the way a powerful female performer can command an audience with her emotional depth and vocal range. While good (or intriguing) looks don't hurt either, these women did not make a career by solely shaking their moneymaker on stage. They are rock 'n' roll chic and incredibly talented performers. Check out these 15 women who totally rock and learn why we love them. And share your favorite lady rockers in the comments!

Joan Jett

Joan Jett was one of The Runaways until she set out on her successful solo career. She hit the airwaves hard with hits like "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" and "Bad Reputation."

Why We Love Her: Talk about being comfortable in your own skin! Joan has always been unapologetic for what people think of her.

Florence Welch

When Florence and the Machine's song "Dog Days Are Over" first hit the airwaves a few years ago, it rocked our socks off. Now the fiery-haired English singer Florence Welch is a well-known name among music lovers everywhere.

Why We Love Her: She's elegant. She's edgy. She's awesome.

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Miley Cyrus & Joan Jett Duet on 'Oprah'

Its cool to see, but I would love to see Kristen sing with her.

Miley Cyrus and Joan Jett take the stage and perform together on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Wednesday (April 13).

The 18-year-old teen queen did a medley of the rock legend’s biggest hits including: “Bad Reputation,” “Cherry Bomb,” and “I Hate Myself.”
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Jan Wahl Movie Review: To Jan Wahl Movie Review: Top 10 of 2010: #8 The Runaways "Kristen Stewart amazing as Joan Jett"

KCBS Entertainment reporter Jan Wahl gives us a glimpse into her top ten favorite movies of 2010 including; Clint Eastwood’s “gutsy and creative” ‘Hereafter’, the “amazing” Kristen Stewart’s portrayal as Joan Jett in the rock and roll biopic ‘The Runaways’, the Joan Rivers documentary ‘A Piece of Work’, and at the top of the list is the film Jan says people are stopping her on the streets to thank her for turning them on to it, ‘The King’s Speech’.

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Joan Jett Talks About Kristen to She Magazine

Imagine being able to talk to Joan Jett in person. How many questions fly through your mind? Exactly! With her life story on film in The Runaways (out on DVD this month) and a Greatest Hits Collection coming out, she’s back on our radar and opening up about her life. When someone has had Jett’s kind of successful, ground breaking career, you think you know her because of her image: a hard-edged rocker chick with an in-your-face attitude and amazing guitar riffs. Yes, but there’s a lot I didn’t know. In 1982, I may have sung my guts out to “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” and thought she was the reason black eyeliner was cool, but this legendary rocker set out with a plan at only 16 years old. She is perfectly aware of the place she’s carved out for women in rock, yet remains humble with a deep and gentle soul. 
 
You were 16 years old when you started The Runaways. Did you have any idea the impact you would have on the punk rock music scene? 
Yeah, even at the onset, when the whole dream of forming an all-girl band first came about, I wanted that to definitely be one of the results. Beyond having fun in a band, I wanted to inspire other girls to do what we were doing because I knew how tough it was going to be. We sure found out how hard it was. It was tough and you didn’t know if you were going to make an impact. But yeah, did I want to? Yeah…yes, definitely. 
Back then, it was such a male dominated era of rock, yet you were touring with The Ramones, Cheap Trick and Tom Petty. You were out there breaking down stereotypes for women. Was that even a thought or was it just about being able to go out there and play? 
It was both, really. I think it’s still really a male dominated arena. I figured rock and roll was such a liberated world, no would have an issue with girls playing rock. But you know, it’s like anything, the glass ceiling is everywhere. Once people realized we were serious about playing in a band and it wasn’t a gimmick, then people started to feel threatened. I don’t really get that. When you own your own sexuality, it’s threatening. People are threatened by that, at least a lot of writers, media...


"You know, the reason I never cared about a movie about my life was that I didn’t want anyone to fu*k it up. I would be so crazy if someone made a Runaways movie that I hated, you know?"
—Joan Jett


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I unabashedly love Joan Jett.


After all, she is a kick-ass woman, completely open about her sexuality, who has been rocking the world for more than 20 years. She understands her place in the history of rock, especially women in rock. But she still has a modest, soulful demeanor that belies her in-your-face onstage presence.


The Runaways movie introduced a new generation to Jett and her music. The film on DVD comes out this month and a Greatest Hits collection is on the way, giving She magazine the perfect reason to interview her. As if anyone really needed a reason other than the fact that she’s Joan effin’ Jett.


On her involvement with The Runaways movie:


I wanted to be around for the filming. You know, the reason I never cared about a movie about my life was that I didn’t want anyone to f--k it up. I would be so crazy if someone made a Runaways movie that I hated, you know?

On Kristin Stewart playing her in the film:

I was thrilled … I met up with Kristen and we got along really well … she really studied me — she got down my body language, my voice inflections, expressions. We’re actually very similar. We’re a lot alike, in our energy, when we talk about stuff, being all over the map.[Laughs]

She was so committed. I remember asking her, early on, if she was going to cut her hair for the film and she said, "Absolutely." I think that helped her to feel like me, rather than wearing a wig. It was good. She wanted me on the set every day. So that was cool.
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Billboard Photos of the Year

MARCH 5: Muse owned the live stage in 2010, making headlines with their performance at Austin City Limits, but it was their laser soaked show at Madison Square Garden that had us enthralled.

JAN. 24: You know you've made it when they make a movie about your life. Joan Jett saw her bio-pic "The Runaways" hit the silver screen this year and even got to premiere it with Kristen Stewart (who plays Joan in the film) at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival
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Couples Halloween Ideas

Hollywood Halloween: 10 Costume Ideas For Couples

Scrambling for your Halloween costume? If my ideas for girls and guys didn't help you, maybe it's because you need a couples costume. Check out my 10 TV- and movie-inspired costumes for you and your other half (and don't forget that my Pop Culture Halloween Costume group in the community could help you out too!).

Joan and Cherie, The Runaways

For him/her: Joan Jett is delightfully androgynous, so a guy or girl can portray her (I'd pick based on hair color). Leather jacket, leather pants, a choker, and a '70s tee are the foundation. Add a guitar and Jett's black shag. And tons of black eyeliner.

For her/him: Feather your blond hair or wig for Cherie, and add lots of ice-blue eyeshadow and red lips. Rock some bell bottoms, platforms, and a vintage button-down with a scarf.

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Kristen Stewart Joan Jett Runaways makeup tutorial (Make Up For Ever)

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New/Old Runaways Portraits

Some have been seen before, but now they are better quality.  From Sundance EW Portraits

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Kristen Stewart: The shy star stepping into Joan Jett's punky shoes

She writes music. She likes movies by Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes. She yearns for a past she's never experienced. And she's just 20 years old.

"She", of course, is Kristen Stewart and, courtesy of the Twilight movies and heroine Bella Swan, she's arguably the hottest female star on the planet.

It's easy and too simplistic to cast Stewart as sullen, stand-offish and unsmiling. Perhaps the truth behind her oft-reported reluctance to conform to film star stereotypes is that she's fundamentally shy. Yet she has been thrust into a harsh spotlight that she neither anticipated nor welcomed. Not an easy arrangement for a global superstar.

Yet Stewart is not your average screen popsy. If she's rebellious, it's in a low-key manner. Yet she was the actress picked to play Joan Jett, the original American rock chick, in a new biopic of ground-breaking all-girl '70s' band The Runaways.

Undoubtedly, Stewart's box- office appeal has much to do with her casting. Yet there is something within this reserved young woman that is peculiarly retro in mood and feel.

"Meeting Joan for the first time, I was terrified, truly terrified," says Stewart. "If she didn't think that I was right for this, then I didn't think that I was right for it either. So the first meeting could have really gone either way. But I flew up to Washington to see her play and I spent, like, the entire night with her."

It was a New Year's Eve meeting to remember. Immediately afterwards Stewart began work on New Moon, the second film in the Twilight series. She forced herself to hold back, to not obsess over whether she had the-then 50-year-old Jett's vote of approval.

She realised she had the role "when she didn't kick me out of her hotel room," she laughs, adding "we just sort of instantly had a rapport".

Whilst the Twilight movies have handed Stewart an extraordinary celebrity, she is at pains to stress her ordinariness. She wishes to be seen as an actress first; the stardom is a mantle she is forced to wear.

"I watch a lot of '70s' movies," she says by way of explaining her affinity with the legendary rocker.

"I love all of Kubrick's movies. I love old independent movies like Cassavetes movies. Joan was watching funny stuff when she was younger. There's this tape of her when she's 14 so I could hear how she spoke, and it's so different. Now she's very New York and raspy, but back in the day she was light; she was a kid and she just talked about a movie that was funny."

Her relationship with Jett, who executive produced the film, has transcended its making. This odd couple – the awkward, gawky actress and the hard-boiled black-clad queen of proto-punk rock – swap stories about the parallels in their lives.

"She completely understands where I'm coming from. I mean, we're both fairly, unabashedly ourselves, so the advice sort of stops there, do you know what I mean? She says, 'Just be real, just say what you mean,' and there you go."

Notwithstanding the Twilight movies, Stewart's background has been in independent and arthouse pictures, or hybrids of the two. She was excellent as the lovelorn beatnik in Sean Penn's Into the Wild and embraced the opportunity to attack another tasty character in The Runaways.

She may not be entirely convincing but she gave it her best shot. She was fortunate that, as much as she was ostensibly the star attraction, she was also part of a tight ensemble that included Dakota Fanning as the band's vocalist, Cherie Currie.

"It's actually the first movie that I've ever done that wasn't an original, fictional piece of work," says Stewart.

"If we don't capture the essence of The Runaways, then it should be acknowledged. That's really important but it's scary – I now know Joan; I have a relationship with her. Everything would fall away if I thought that I wasn't respecting that."

She adds: "She was a very sensitive girl; the word 'punk' didn't even exist. Everything she wears is kind of light.

"When she gets older, it's armour. She's not trying to be cool, she is trying to be tough, she's compensating, and there's a lot of that. It's an entire lifestyle.

"When the band breaks up, Joan has said to me, 'Well, that's what it feels like to peak at 16'. When it crumbled, it killed her. The Runaways started everything for chicks in rock and roll.

"At the time, it wasn't normal to do what she did. People didn't want to see a girl holding an electric guitar. It was ugly, it just wasn't right. Now it's normal."source
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Reminder Runaways on DVD Tomorrow

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How to get Kristen's Bella or Joan Jett hair

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Grrrls on film

Joan Jett sees herself in the young star of The Runaways, writes Donna Walker-Mitchell.

Rock icon Joan Jett is standing on the film set for The Runaways, a biopic based on the all-girl group she co-founded. With her is actress Kristen Stewart, her mullet-styled hair dyed black and thick dark kohl eyeliner around her eyes. Stewart is listening intently to Jett, who is gesticulating with her hands, as if playing an imaginary guitar.

Director Floria Sigismondi, whose past work includes directing music videos for David Bowie and Sheryl Crow, seems awestruck.

"They're like twins," she says. "I mean, I look over and there they are. It's like one of them is holding up a mirror. I can't get over how much they're alike."

But Stewart didn't turn into Jett overnight. For many months before The Runaways started filming, Jett was helping the 20-year-old star.

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Jett tells Metro that Stewart now knows more about her than anyone: "I told her things I've never told anyone before," Jett says in her husky voice.

Along with rare recordings she copied for the star, Jett also duplicated tapes she used to send to her aunt when she was a teenager.

Jett felt it would help Stewart get to know who she really was beyond the ''pictures of this girl with black hair and heavy make-up''.

The Runaways tells the story of the all-girl 1970s rock band of the same name. Based on lead singer Cherie Currie's memoir,Neon Angel, the film follows the band's tumultuous years from their formation to their split.

Jett is now 51 but the years of hard living during the Runaways years and beyond are, surprisingly, not etched on her youthful-looking face. "There was plenty of sex, drugs and rock and roll," she says, matter-of-factly. "That's what we wrote about with our songs because that's what we were living."

While Jett says the film is based on what happened during that time, she is also the first to point out some things have been exaggerated for the big screen.

"Take, for instance, the scene where I'm with the music teacher," Jett says, referring to a scene where she storms out of a room after a music teacher tries to get her to learn On Top of Old Smoky.

"I didn't fight with the guy," Jett says. "I went in and said, 'I want to play rock and roll.' He was trying to teach me the basics and, now I look back on it, I realise what he was doing. At the time though, I didn't want to hear it. He tried to teach me On Top of Old Smoky and I left."

Jett taught herself how to play the guitar instead.

All these years later, she is still perplexed by the controversy the group caused, mainly due to their sound, lyrics and the sexy outfits lead singer Currie wore.

"I loved the Runaways so much and I really believed we could change the world," Jett explains to Metro. "To see the reaction be so harsh and so mean-spirited, because we were playing music? We were playing f--king rock and roll. I didn't get it and it made me really angry and I had to figure out why it was so threatening for girls to play rock and roll. I didn't get it then and I don't get it now."

Despite falling out with Currie after she left the band, the pair are now friends and were often on set together when the cameras started rolling for the Runaways.

"At the time when we did the Runaways, we didn't have much communication,'' Jett says.

''We didn't sit down and talk about what was bothering us. If we had, things might have been different, but we didn't," Jett shrugs.

So plenty of lessons learned?

"The best thing I've learned is don't back down," Jett says.

"Especially for girls; it's a tough road to hoe.''

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"The first time I heard a tape of Kristen singing...I thought it was me."

“The first time I heard a tape of Kristen singing ‘I Love Playing With Fire,’ I thought it was me. I sent it back and said, ‘You’ve got to send me a new mix with Kristen higher up, because I just hear me.’ And someone finally said, ‘Joan, that is Kristen.’ She had nailed all of my inflections to such a degree that I couldn’t tell.” 
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Fashion High Notes

ELLE names the music industry’s 25 most influential and intrepid style icons

If fashion is art (and we may be biased, but we think it is), then the music industry is at least three art forms at once: song, dance, and—as Lady Gaga would say—ra, ra, fashion, baby. After all, some of the most memorable musicians are the ones whose songs not only got into our heads, but whose clothes we wanted in our closets. Here, ELLE recounts the 25 music stars who carved their spot into fashion history.

CHERIE CURRIE AND JOAN JETT

Years before Madonna donned her now-famous cone bra on her Blond Ambition tour, the Runaways star Cherie Currie was rocking out onstage in head-to-toe lingerie—garter belts and all!—while her bandmate Joan Jett was decked out in black, from her dyed mop top and raccoon eyes down to her leather boots. But it’s the bright red jumpsuit Jett wore onstage during the Runaways’ 1977 tour of Japan that’s still burned in our retinas.

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A Ton of Runaways Stills

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Kristen "Steals the Show" in The Runaways

If you ask people about the 1970s girl band The Runaways, you might get a few lines from their hit “Cherry Bomb” or a Joan Jett reference, but chances are, most people these days don’t know them too well. They will, namely because of Floria Sigismondi’s new film starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, also titled “The Runaways.”

“The Runaways” tells the story of five girls trying to make it big in the male-dominated world of 70s rock. They fall under the tutelage of Kim Fowler (played extremely well by Michael Shannon), who not only gathers the girls together, but becomes the band’s manager and producer.
Under Fowler, the band is formed, with Joan Jett on rhythm guitar, Cherie Currie as lead vocalist, Sandy West on drums, Lita Ford as lead guitarist, and Robin, the bassist. Robin represented Jackie Fox, who did not want to be seen in the movie adaptation of the band’s lives.
Sigismondi really plunged the audience into the 70s underground world of grunge during some of the scenes with Fowler and the girls practicing. For instance, Fowler had to teach the girls to toughen up. This was necessary after Currie, played by not-so-nice girl Dakota Fanning, brought in a slow love song to sing in their first practice. Viewers may find it amusing to see young kids (bribed by the manager) at practices heckling the girls. To even more laughter, Jett seems to be thrilled when she finds she can hit trash chucked on stage with her guitar, swinging like a baseball player.

What is very clear, though, is that the laughs are few and far between in “The Runaways.” The audience must watch as Currie goes from being a good girl from a broken home to becoming a full-on drug addict. Though she’s clearly portrayed as the worst of the lot, the whole group experiments with drugs and sex. It also features some lesbian scenes between Jett and Currie.  It’s almost surprising to see the transformation of Dakota Fanning from the ultimate cute, good girl to Currie, a bombshell and addict. The star, known for playing sweethearts in “Charlotte’s Web” and “The Secret Life of Bees,” however, seems like a natural in “The Runaways.”

Kristen Stewart, however, steals the show. Known around the world for her portrayal of “Bella” in “Twilight,” many people put her in the waif category, as her most well-known character is a lovesick, obsessed teenager. In “The Runaways,” though, Stewart really proves her talent. She is Joan Jett, no question about it. There is the fact they bear a striking resemblance, but her mannerisms and harsh, aggressive attitude mimic the real-life 70s rocker, who had no use for boys.

There’s almost no concrete plot line to the film, other than to show the band’s formation and ultimate demise and how they handled everything thrown at them in between – be it fame, sex or drugs. Interestingly, though, it’s not boring. From Currie’s first performance lip-synching David Bowie to Jett’s aggressive meeting with Fowler, the audience won’t be able to look away.

The film hits its peak, though, when the girls go on their first tour. It may be worth it only to watch how their fame made them nearly as popular as The Beatles in Japan. This culminates in the scene where they perform “Cherry Bomb,” sung well by Fanning. It’s nearly impossible to tell which songs on the soundtrack to “The Runaways” were sung by Fanning and Stewart apart from the Currie and Jett hits.

The only real downfall to the movie is the fact that other actresses playing band members, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton and Alia Shawkat, did not get a chance to shine. “The Runaways” was almost entirely about the path Currie and Jett took, which makes sense, given their relationship and the fact that Jett was an executive producer of the film.  The basic story of the tough all-girl band was told pretty quickly and wrapped up even faster. “The Runaways,” though, is the type of movie which will probably inspire girls and maybe even guys to research further the past of the band. This movie will probably give The Runaways a few more fans, at least.

Chances are many girls around the country will see “The Runaways” purely because the “Twilight” star is a lead. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking to assume they’ll be exposed to more culture after seeing the story of this epic band. But, as The Runaways paved the way for girl bands today, perhaps Sigismondi’s film will be an inspiration for girls in the future. 

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Stewart sets standard for future Rock Biopics

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning have Chemistry in "The Runaways"

The power of raw acid leaks through the speakers when “Cherry Bomb” starts to play and the crowd goes insane when they see Cherie Currie wearing red lingerie.  The Runaways were one of the first all-female rock bands and catapulted the careers of guitarists Joan Jett and Lita Ford into stardom.  The self-named biopic chronicles the band’s rise and fall and centers around the relationship between Jett and Currie. The film is based on Currie’s autobiography “Neon Angel.”  The film shows these two girls in their raw, primal forms. With Currie’s love for David Bowie and trouble fitting in to, more importantly, Jett’s struggle to play the electric guitar as a girl. As their lives unfold, so do the roots of female individuality and sexuality in music and the world.

This movie is gritty, rough, grimy and fantastic. The shots are clean, the music is tight and the acting is surprisingly smooth and worthwhile.
Dakota Fanning, as Currie, and Kristen Stewart, as Jett, have an unmatched chemistry on screen. The voices heard in the movie are actually Fanning’s and Stewart’s, which gives it a raw and completely real feeling.  At first, Fanning sounds terrible when she auditions for the band, but when she puts on the sexy red outfit and performs in Japan on tour, an animal is unleashed.  This scene is strikingly the climax of the film, with a complete performance of “Cherry Bomb” and stunning visuals. Unfortunately, Fanning emanates a good-girl vibe, and lacks the harsh rock-and-roll edge Currie describes in her book.

Kristen Stewart, on the other hand, takes a pound of bricks and smashes all expectations in the face with her portrayal of Jett. Not only did she do the part justice, but sets the standard for future rock-and-roll biopics.  She captures the angst and emotion of the confused rock star and gets the voice just right. But, most importantly, she grips the rock-and-roll attitude and kicks it to the curb, which is proven when she urinates on a guy’s guitar for telling her she should be in the kitchen.
The final piece that brings the entire show together is manager Kim Fowley, played by Academy-Award nominee Michael Shannon (2009, for his supporting role in “Revolutionary Road”).  The slimy man constantly sneers and leers at the girls, egging them on and abusing them mentally and verbally. He jumps and screams and shouts when they mess up on stage, and makes sure to let them know that he’s the one with the money and power.

The one thing this film really lacks is true introspection. The minds of Jett and Currie are never fully pried open, or at least not enough to see what’s really bothering them.  They take it out on themselves with drugs, booze and sex, but there is never a moment, clean or drug-driven, of revelation where the curtains open and the true meaning of things start to unfold.  The girls were only sixteen when the band hit its pinnacle, but there is still a hidden truth behind The Runaways that the movie just doesn’t fully explore.

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