Melissa Etheridge on Sex, Love & Behind the Music

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by bonafide rock icon MELISSA ETHERIDGE! Melissa discusses all the dyke drama in her early Hollywood friendships with ROSIE O'DONNELL, ELLEN, KD LANG and BRAD PITT and nearly being outed when her first record was released. We also go behind the music for “Bring Me Some Water,” “Brave and Crazy," "Similar Features" and more!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dive and I am here with a Grammy and Oscar-winning
0:20.2	hella-purlific rock icon.
0:23.1	She paved the way for all lesbian rock stars who came after her.
0:27.8	She is also now starring on Broadway in a one-woman show, My Window, in which she tells the
0:34.1	story of her life through her music.
0:37.4	She plays every instrument on stage alone for nearly two and a half hours.
0:43.4	Hi Melissa Etheridge.
0:44.9	Hello.
0:45.9	How are you?
0:46.9	I'm doing very, very well.
0:48.4	How are you, Jess?
0:49.4	I mean, there's so many places that I could start.
0:51.8	So I think let's just jump right in and we'll kind of find her way out.
0:56.2	Sounds good.
0:58.2	The first thing I want to say is this new album that you just released, I'm obsessed
1:03.3	with this concept.
1:04.7	You rediscovered old demos that you had recorded how long ago, like 25 years ago, like when
1:11.4	did you record these?
1:13.2	Some of them were 30 years ago.
1:15.6	Some of them were like 1990, I'd say it was like 1990 to about 93, yeah.
1:22.9	These are songs that you recorded that long ago, but you felt were either two gay or
1:28.5	two feminists, and you never released them.
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