It's time to break it to Jess, I actually need to know: Lita who? Seriously. I'd never heard of her until Jess started posting again. I keep meaning to look her up but I just never get around to it. So, yeah, Jess hates me now and stuff, but maybe Lita Ford is just not relevant in Australia.
Meanwhile, Adele is awesome. She'd almost certainly have my vote even if I knew who the other person was.
HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW THE LEGENDNESS THAT IS LEGEND FORD?!
You see the extremely hot girl with the red shirt and nice ass? That is the Queen when she was a teenager, starting out in 70's rock band The Runaways, most well known for their 1976 classic "Cherry Bomb". Joan Jett, who also rules, was in this band too. The Runaways put out a few albums but eventually broke up in 1978.
In 1983 she released her debut solo album,
Out For Blood, which showed a more heavy metal side of Lita, rather than the punk sound of The Runaways. A year later she released her second solo album,
Dancin' On The Edge, which featured the single "Gotta Let Go", a song so awesome I once listened to it 46 times in a row in one night.
In 1988 she released her third solo album, the one that broke her through to pop radio, simply titled
Lita. The album featured the
#12 #1 hit, "Kiss Me Deadly", and the
#8 #1 single, a duet with Ozzy Osbourne called "Close My Eyes Forever".
The Queen also released three other albums after that - her best album ever,
Stiletto, in 1990,
Dangerous Curves in 1991, and
Black in 1995. She then took a long break to spend time with her now ex-husband Jim Gilette (who was in a shitty hair band called Nitro), and eventually gave birth to two boys, Rocco and James.
In 2009, The Queen made a comeback album called
Wicked Wonderland, which spawned two #1 hits on Jessica's Top 25 - "Crave" and "Piece (Hell Yeah)". However, the album didn't receive good reception because it was more industrial sounding and did not have her classic Lita sound. Also, there were too many vocals from her controlling douchebag husband on it. I guess in a way you could actually say it was her
Bionic.
Still looking FLAWLESS after all these years! In 2011, Queen Lita announced that she is divorcing her husband of seventeen years, Jim Gillette, and is going through a custody battle. Apparently the douche had the nerve to abuse her. JACKASS. But anyway she said that she is working on a new album that will slay later this year called
The Healing (hence my M4B/Twitter name
). The Queen said it will sound like her classic material and that
Wicked Wonderland wasn't really her proper comeback. She also told flop radio DJ Eddie Trunk that she was planning on "coming back Tina Turner style" (one of the best quotes ever tbh).
How did I get into the Queen anyway, may you ask? I first discovered her in October 2006. I heard "Kiss Me Deadly" through a 1988 American Top 40 show, and at first listen, I thought it was just okay. I hate admitting that but that was my original reaction.
2007 was not exactly the best year for me, in fact it was one of the worst years ever to be honest. I hate getting ~too personal~ on here, but I'm not going to lie β I was quite depressed during this time. I wasn't feeling very good about myself and I wasn't in the right mindset, and as a result I acted out a lot on MSN particularly towards Bry and John and although there WERE times where I was right
, for the most part I was out of line. I cringe when I see those old conversations from back then. But anyway, the summer of 2007 was especially horrible. In June 2007, I read something about her being in The Runaways with Joan Jett back in the 70's and that made me curious to check out some of her own music some more. So I downloaded some songs of hers through Limewire - "Dressed To Kill", "Cherry Red", "Black Widow", and her cover of Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed". I was listening to them all day and it cheered me up a lot after having two arguments that day - one with my brother and one with my mother (might I also add that it was over dumb shit). Then a month later I heard her song, "Gotta Let Go" on Music Choice for the first time and became OBSESSED with it. I listened to that song 46 times in a row that night, as I mentioned earlier in this thread.
. Her music just helped me through a lot of crap that I was going through at the time. The song that helped me the most though was her duet with Ozzy Osbourne, "Close My Eyes Forever". That is just a beautiful song and it's legendary and iconic beyond belief.
Also, in 2009 during the
Wicked Wonderland era, I actually had a chance to speak to the Queen on the radio! This Sunday actually marks two years since it happened.
She was so sweet. It was the second best night of my life. Here's a link to the clip, prepared to be slayed.
www.sendspace.com/file/x5hieeOn a side note, this has to be the longest post I have ever made on this forum. I should really teach a βQueen Lita 101β class.