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Melissa Etheridge on Performing "Blaze of Glory" for Jon Bon Jovi, Teases Upcoming Tour With Jewel & More | MusiCares Person of the Year 2024
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2/3/2024
Melissa Etheridge caught up with Billboard's Katie Bain at MusiCares Person of the Year 2024.
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So excited to talk to you because I know you're performing tonight. This is a very exclusive room
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A lot of people would do a lot of things to get inside
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Can you give us a little bit of a hint of what you're gonna be doing for your performance?
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Oh, well, if you remember there was a movie in
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1990 called young guns - and John wrote a song for called blaze of glory and
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I'm gonna sing that one with Larkin Poe Larkin Poe is gonna play a slide and rock guitar
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And we're just gonna have a great time. That's such a steamy epic song. How did that one come to you?
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John asked me to do it. He requested that I do that song. I said yes, sir. What an honor
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What makes John such an icon? Well, he's just rock and roll. He's
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100% through and through he
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Dreamed that 80s rock and roll dream. They lived it
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they wore the clothes and the hair and they went through and then gracefully went into the 90s and kept
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Doing it kept playing live kept playing the songs people love just as has been a real
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Example of how to have longevity in this business. What do you think has been the secret to their longevity?
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their their
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dedication to who they are as musicians not ever trying to
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Get clever and outside of it sticking with what they know what they do and playing for their audience
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You've obviously had a very long career yourself
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The best new artist is a very popular awarded the Grammys
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What would you what advice would you give to any of these young artists that are just starting on this journey?
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Oh, I'd say it's insane
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But if you must do it do what you love do what you love and only do what you love because if you start
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Thinking if other people like you if it's if your happiness depends on if other people like your music
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You're never gonna be happy
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So you gotta love your music first find the people that love your music and know that all music isn't for everybody
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And don't take it personally and just play for who you love and keep doing and keep playing live. That's the key
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I know that you and jewel are co-headlining a tour. How did that come about? Well, it's about time
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you know what I've got a great agency the Washington Agency the fantastic and
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They they put this together. It's come on
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It's 90s, you know 90s songs and and I think there's a lot of people
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From the 90s who remember and want to go see that those concerts and hear those songs and they will
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Okay, last but not least favorite Bon Jovi song
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Living on a prayer
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Yeah.
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