Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Joanie Leeds

One Liner: Kiddies tunes about girl empowerment and the Fauci Ouchie

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but Kiddie tunes
Home: Miami

Poster Position: 23
Weekend Two Only.  Saturday AND Sunday.

Thoughts:  On the first song, I was like "oooooh, this is nice, sounds like those Lisa Loeb tunes for kids!"  And then I realized that Lisa Loeb was on the track.  Gotcha.

Her albums take you on a tour of this woman's viewpoint for sure.  The first few - 2000's My Job Application Knows More About Me Than You Do and 2003's Soul from my Footsteps, have no Spotify plays tracked, but are more of a serious ALBUM thing than the things that have come since.   Kind of sounds like a dime store Alanis Morrissette.  But then 2008's City Kid, with a cartoon cover and songs like "You Are My Sunshine" and "Mister Softee" and "Riding in my Car - Car Car Song" are aimed at the Kiddie demographic.  "Lizzie Spins" is one of her top streamers and is on this album.  7,472 streams.

Her real name is Joan Leibowitz and she has won a Grammy for her kid friendly tunes.  She grew up in Florida and was a music and theater kid before heading to Syracuse and majoring in musical theater and drama.  Afterwards, she started a rock band (see those two albums described above) and was struggling on that until a friend told her to get a job where she could sing with kids during the day and then do her thing at night.  She managed a Gymboree in Manhattan and apparently hasn't looked back.  She's won a bunch of Parent's Choice awards and finally a Grammy in 2021.

But then 2009 brings us Challah, Challah, with a bunch of songs that are not entirely in English, but sound real pretty.  Not sure if they are also aimed at Kiddies, or if only at the Jewish kiddies, but they sound nice!  Finally, 2020 brings us All The Ladies, with a bunch of women empowerment tunes.  The top one there is her top overall streamer, "All the Ladies," with 41k streams.  This is the one with Lisa Loeb.
LETS SUPPORT EACH OTHER!  WOMEN POWER!  And her most recent song, from 2022 is called "Fauci Ouchie" and I really hate it.  I mean, I love the vaccines and stuff, I'm all for getting them, but I don't care for anyone who is using Dr. Fauci's name, whether for good or bad.  Leave the guy alone.  

So, prepare yourself for some cute times with our friend Joanie.

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