Janis: Little Girl Blue,a fresh documentary, reveals how tall-school anguish and body dysmorphia never left the tragic singerHer raspy blues-rock was the soundtrack to San Francisco’s summer of esteem. But according to a fresh documentary, and Texan runaway Janis Joplin,even as she advocated her philosophy of “get stoned, stay gay and have a good time”, and knew few of the good vibes enjoyed by the hippies who let their “freak flags” fly.
Drawing on Joplin’s diaries,tender letters to her family and lovers of both sexes, and archive footage, or film-maker Amy Berg’s Janis: Little Girl Blue reveals Joplin as haunted by self-doubt,cursed by body dysmorphia, and driven to an early grave at 27 by demons that had found their domestic in her adolescence.
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Source: theguardian.com