European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                With my family. They can All do very Well it depends Shal direction they go  and thanks 1o the demands of their separate careers singing and dancing Jacksons Are of in different Lions at All limes. Neil a year ago various members of the family hosted together every six weeks and we d All entertain another Jackson said. 3ut. Latoya s Over Here in Europe Michael s Here and Lere Jermaine s in Korea i mean it s Yodit Tault right now. Only live 12 minutes from my mom so we re always such my Mother s House is like a Gas Lalion. You 1 in and till up on the scoop and  devout Jehovah s witness Jackson has found a bit ame on her Road trip by attending meetings in ind and West Germany seeking to uphold the ily s spiritual values. And although she performs in nightclubs. Jackson said s nol a club person a party Type of s  m very Boring. I m very Domestic. I Tove very Boring things. I like Interior decorating. And something i should t like and that s  As far As her career s concerned she d love to do a theme song for a movie and a to variety show As Well As continue to record and perform live. But one wonders since she wants greater exposure Why does t she tour with brother Michael whose shows draw capacity crowds around the world that would have been very Nice. That would have been great Jackson said. But it did t happen that  another family show business venture May be in the works however for her 17-year-old daughter placed Brown. Both Janet and Jermaine want to produce her Jackson said proudly. Jermaine really wants to produce her. He s Laid tracks already and in act while we were in Europe to was calling her constantly trying to get her to Lay some  is photos by l. Emmett Lewis or. A Barefoot Jackson dances with her fans. Women rockers Are cutting Loose by Jon Pareles new York times old truisms die hard but Here s one that finally joined the dinosaurs women can t rack like men sure they can listen no further than Tina Turner. Joan Jelt Bonnie Rait. Joan armal Rading . Lang Annie Lennox of eurythmics Ann and Nancy Wilson of heart. Now comes phase two women who Rock on their own terms. Among a slew of recant recordings by Lemale singers songwriters end band leaders Many of whom owe their signings to the popularity of Suzanne Vega s Luka. Some suggest that women Are ready to shake up or meltdown conventional Rock songwriting. Like feminist artists who rediscovered quills and samplers female rockers Are self consciously or not reclaiming their own traditions and methods. From Sinead o Connor and Teena Marie in the top 100 to College radio sensations including throwing muses. It Welchin Bones Lydia lunch Jane Siberry. The sugar cubes Salem 66 and live Skull women in Rock Are stretching their voices and recasting song Structure bringing to Rock what might be called a rhapsodic impulse. Put simply they re cutting Loose. First of All the voices Are unfettered. These women Are no longer Content just to croon decorous by or try to Belt like soul singers they use snarls models bleats yelps. Go Olla slops moans whispers giggles screams. On Lite s too Good the american debut album by the icelandic band the sugar cubes. A woman named Bjork pushes her Soprano until it Breaks into All sorts of Sharp pieces. Sinead o Connor on the Lien arid the cobra can sound ethereal or enraged with her Lone narrowing to a nasal implacable rasp Kristin Hersh of throwing muses a Boston based band that released its second full length album House Tornado uses a last wide quaver that she might have Learned from Balkan music. These Are unmistakably female voices but they re by no Means Ladylike. Beyond their unconstrained voices these women share the ability to bypass decades of Standard Rock songwriting. Rather than stick to the usual Slep by slip buildup Climax and Quick Resolution their songs Are almost literally eccentric or unc entered words and music swirl in Gusty irregular structures that May or May not return to their catchiest bits. Hersh s songs for throwing muses trip up first time listeners with Mieir asymmetries obsessively hanging on to a nil or leaping to the next one by suddenly skipping a beat. It three new Voik women who started performing together in 1978 and moved to London in 1902, writes songs whose Cranky Stop and Slart noise guitar patterns could crumble or explode at any moment on its album. In Cut s House. We Wisi nol hold you to anything at All Judy Grunwald and Beth Kaplan of Salem 66 sing on their third album natural disasters. Natural treasures go. Go go where you want logo they might Well be talking about their own songs. There Are still plenty of female musicians who Are perfectly Content with pop song conventions and some males among them Morrissey. Prince and u2, occasionally let their songs expand and rhapsody be. Vet More and More it seems Lemale rockers in the 1980s Are looking Back to other women s music and by now there s enough of ii to provide a context blues and jazz singers unleashed their virtuosity and irony within pop song structures Bui the women who Sang gospel music Tore apart their songs when the spirt moved them no verse chorus verse forms could hold them Back. There s probably not a Singer in american popular music who has t had some gospel exposure and few singers who Don t envy what gospel vocalists can do. Two of the female songwriters who came into Shnir own in the 1970s, Joni Mitchell and Patli Smith warped and stretched songs to More secular ends Mitchell with her elaborate lyrics and elastic vocal lines. Smith searching for an ecstatic quasi religious Coro within Rock n Roll. Even Stevie Nicks of Al Elwood Mac opened up her songs with obsessional repealed phrases. And then along came Punk Rock celebrating do in yourself music and anything goes songwriting opening doors for female musicians who d been scorned by know it All males. Following Smith s Wilfulness As Wall As her music such female led groups As the raincoats Delta 5, the slits v pants Lydia lunch and it created smart Homespun sounding songs that defied established ideas of Structure and professionalism. Punk rockers rediscovered Yoko one s screechy scratchy Avant Garde improvisations and channelled them into full fledged hits for the b-s2s and Lena Lovich and maybe for the sugar cubes too. Sioux Sie and the banshees drawing on the doors As Well As Yoko Ono began to blend drones and bowls influencing Punk and Post Punk rockers of All sexes. Nearly a decade later female rockers Are still taking chances. Sometimes those experiments Are reflected in song lyrics that ramble in dream logic instead of narrating or exhorting sometimes they Lake a roundabout Way Back to Ordinary lovers sentiments yet even As teeny pop singers and girl group stereotypes fit live pop charts some women Are exploring the Post feminist wilderness without looking Back keeping their options As wide open As their songs. Tobor 12,1988 the stars and stripes Page 15