A must-see for Janis Joplin fans, as well as those who are not familiar with this 1960 star’s signature work in the blues and rock and roll. Joplin’s unique voice, which embodies pain and unrequited love, is a reflection of a childhood filled with disappointment and trauma, primarily due to her looks. We are reminded that even when someone comes from a good family, it can be the outside forces that do so much damage. Though charismatic and powerful onstage, Janis Joplin always seems to end up alone. Part of this is due to her drug addiction, but here we learn she was able to clean herself a few times. After singing “Me and Bobby McGee,” Joplin was just beginning an exciting turning point in her life when she died in her sleep at 27. Sadly, her last hit turned out to be a drug overdose.
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Karina Pinella 
I am not familiar we Janis but definitely will follow.Its sad she ended like that.
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Yes, it is sad.
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Don’t know much about her. Just knew she died.
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She had a voice that wrenched your guts.
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Yeah, I was told by someone long ago. When she quit doing drugs and when she went back on did she died then and there or was it later on?
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She had quit for a good while, but perhaps for old time’s sake she just wanted a little hit that fateful night. Things were going well for her, but apparently, it was her last gamble with drugs. She was quite a drinker too so the combo probably did her in.
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AH HA! I knew it! It happens when they go back on it just once and bam died! Yup.
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Ironic indeed. One gets just so many chances . . .
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I think it’s the amount of it that was too much. It should have been a smaller amount than the last time they used.
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Her body also probably reached a point of weakness. Similar to what happened with Amy Winehouse. She had quit, but her body just gave out.
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YUP!
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BTW, such people who die without achieving nirvana are sent back into this world to try again. They’re not sent to hell.
God is not going to lose a single sheep. He calls Jesus “a good shephard” for this reason.
He has given us to Jesus and Jesus got a strange technology which he uses to turn bad things into good and to send the dead back into this world to enjoy another childhood, another adolesenc, another youth, even another death!
Weird Son.
Likes to play with us as a child likes to play with his toys!
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I don’t want to sound harsh but we need to understand that bad things happen and they are to be treasured, not hated.
When people are hurt, they find wine and drugs addictive but they don’t solve any problems, do they?
If you’re hurt like Janis, then thank God because only God can help us break our hearts of stone. And my seemingly ironic advice will end up benefitting you.
That’s what I’ve learned from Job de Bible and I personally have tried this and have seen its magic.
I’ve lived a very lonely life but have surprisingly survived to write this.
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Janis Jopin went to my alma mater, at UT Austin where my daughter wants to go next year. Daughter has many of her songs downloaded and she’s 17 and mostly listens to hip-hop, but just loves Janis Joplin. There CAN be crossover in that young age group!!!! (She also loves Journey, LOL)
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Your daughter knows her music!
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It is sad when the talented are taken from us so early.
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It doesn’t seem possible it’s been this long but I’ve been a fan of Ms. Joplin for 50 years! I watched a documentary about her recently and discovered that she was only 6 months younger than me. I loved/love her unique style ❤ 🙂
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After seeing the documentary, I understand better the “depths of her voice.”
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Yes…she had a way, with her voice, of reaching right into you and grabbing your soul.
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Well said!
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I do love / did love / am still mad about Janis Joplin.
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Me too. She is passion personified.
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