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March 17, 2025 12 mins

In the late 90s we grew up with Australian singer Joanne who had a huge hit with the song "Jackie". Joanne like the rest of us grew up listening to 80s artists, one of which affected her dramatically when they passed away. It was an artist who had a huge influence on her career, you'll find out who it is in this episode.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Every day brings a new story. Life isn't perfect, but
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all and figure it out together, one episode at a time.
This is Life as we know it, Unfiltered with Tony
Tanalia and Lisa Cameron.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hello and welcome. We have a little special bonus podcast
episode for you right now. We'd singer Joe Anne. Remember
the song jack Jack Jackie. Yep, that's the lady we're
speaking to. We asked Joanne which celebrity death affected her
the most.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Michael Jackson, biggest Michael Jackson fan.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
My earliest memory, full stop is Michael Jackson the Vinyl
Rocking and it's the Off the Wall album. That is
my earliest memory ever of anything. And I was so
die hard obsessed with this man. I studied. I had
VCRs get chewed up because I watched things over and

(01:09):
over and over his musicianship, his showmanship. I wanted to
be like Michael and I loved him. I thought I
was gonna marry him.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I really did, you know. I used to make him.
It's just so embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
He had a fan club called the World of Michael Jackson.
So you know, you'd open the cassette covers and there'd
be like the details of.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Where to send things.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I made a glimpse, so I sequined these gloves. It
was about seven, and I really thought that he would
get my birthday presents.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Every year.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I'd send them to this address in Encino. I think
about it now and I'm like, shame hamber. But his death,
my whole world stopped. Because he'd been around my entire
life and was such a force, and he was obviously
preparing for this big tour and going to the UK,

(01:59):
and and I just was so unbelievably shocked and devastated.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I took time off.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
My whole world stopped.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I told no one called me, No one called me.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
I remember watching they had the thing on TV, you
know with all the celebs, and yeah, my world just stopped.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
It really affected me.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
It really affected me because I think that it was
the shock of an icon and someone that we I
guess you just always thought he was going to be
around creating and what is he going to do next. Yeah.
I was absolutely devastated, absolutely devastated. But I do have

(02:47):
a funny story about him. I really was so obsessed
that when we went to his concert. My cousin, my
school friend, and myself are at his concert and we
were convinced in human nature that he was looking at
us and singing to us. So we were like, you
know how they always have the footage when the camera's

(03:07):
pang to the crowd and there's the embarrassing girls that
are get a faint or whatever.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
So that was us.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
So you know, I think, I'm I think we're about
seventeen or something, and he was saying that to us.
It was a.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Moment like we were like making this big thing about it.
He looked at us.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
A year and a half to two years later, I'm
doing my first arena performance. I'm on stage and we're
all like in position and looking down, and then the
lights come up and I go to start singing, and
I nearly burst out laughing because I realized you can't
see beyond something like you can see that you can't see.

(03:49):
And I'm up there and I'm gettuated to sing and
I'm like, I can't see that, and then I'm like
I literally had to turn around face the back of
the stage and do some move too to hide the fact.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
That I was about to piss myself laughing because.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
I and then I was like, my head is going,
like I'm supposed to be focusing on the first verse
of the first song, and my head is going, Oh
my gosh, Michael did not see me.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh my god, Michael didn't see me.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I have to call my cousin. Oh my gosh, Oh
my gosh. Like I was tripping out.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
And as soon as we got off stage, the dances
like why do you burst out laughing and I'm like,
Michael didn't see me.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're like what Michael, Who I go, Michael Jackson. They're like,
Michael Jackson, why are you talking at I go, he
didn't see me?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I go.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
All these years I thought that in human nature he
saw me and was like, girl, I'm gonna sing to you.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
And my cousin we were both arguing. He was sinking
to me.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Now he was thinking to me like we were both
like convinced that there was this moment shared.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh that's brilliant.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
But that obviously taught me the power of a performer,
because you can nest. But yeah, but I'm up there
like whoa, And then I'm like, holy crap. I can't.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Oh my god, Michael, you serious.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
This whole moment that I had in my head about
me and Michael and human nature.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Gone, it was not.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh my, it was not.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's just hilarious.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
And so I always tell people that every time I
talk about Michael, I talk about arena shows, I'm like,
I got a story because it just troops me out
that I really thought it was meaning.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's so funny. I love it.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Meanwhile, I couldn't see itous.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
It just shows how big of a fan you are
as well, like years later, like you're still thinking, oh God,
did see me? Yep, oh my god. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
So yeah, so my world stopped. My world stopped for
in when he passed away. I just couldn't believe that.
And it's actually sad when you think about how many
iconic artists of that caliber we lost after him. And
it really does go to show, you know, not just
how precious life is, but you know, look after artists

(06:18):
and and and care and nurture for them because you're
so inspired by them.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Don't rip them down, you know.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Send them to Tony's for dinner.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
This is this is My life turned out great because
I went to Tony's.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
If every artist they go to have a spaghetti ballinato.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
With the Simon g and you get the pizza. Seriously,
life would have been amazing.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
That just headed in a different direction, didn't it. Now,
Look all of our life as we know it, guests
receive a life as we know it mug. But jo
Anne decided that she was going to bring in something
for me.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yes, and I really forgot about this.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
So viewers at home, we have a Digitech shoebox, cassette
player and recorder. But why Tony and I were chatting,
and we were messaging before a mat a month ago
maybe maybe a bit long ago, when I was changing
get my garage, and Tony was sharing that she'd found
all these old cassettes of some of her earliest radio shows,

(07:25):
and I was like, oh.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
My gosh, how amazing. You know what did they sound like?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Community radio as well? I found those two. This is
how old these cassettes.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Are, you know, And this is like, you know, you know,
I would have made my best work on my mixtapes
back in the day, so I understand. And so we
were chatting about, you know, all these cassettes that she found.
I'm like, oh my gosh, it must be so trippy
to listen to them. I know when I listened to
my old stuff, I freak out. And she's like, well, no,
I haven't been able to listen to it yet.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
I said, how come. She's like, I don't have a cassette.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Player, and funnily enough, and they're so hard to come by. Now,
I had bought this when I was doing my promo
for the Jackie twenty fifth Anniversary remix. One of my
reels is a cassette and it's basically, you know, cassette
of Jackie and I did this like gimmicky thing, and

(08:11):
I bought this off Amazon, tried to.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Hunt one down and I used it for that and
then it just sat there.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
And so when Tony was like, I've got this cassette,
I cutlets where I said, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
When I see you, I have one, She's like, what
do you mean? I said, I have one. I'm going
to bring it to you and now you can actually
listen and it's battery operated and it's fabulous, so I'm
going to hear.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
So now we have a retro years ago, a retro
cassette place. Yeah, I used to have the I was
obsessed with my dual cassette recorder.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Stuff.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
I used to make radio shows. So I would go
up to my bedroom. God, I crack up at the
stuff I used to do. I'd go up to my
bedroom and I would be everybody. So I would record
called myself interviewing.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
The artist, and you were the artist.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I was the artist as.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, and sometimes there'd be different accents and different characters.
And then I would also mix the music, and I
would create these medleys and mash ups on the double cassette.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Because you just pause, pause, record and do all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
And I had my sister's record player there, and i'd
do all this stuff anyway. I'd record it, and then
i'd go downstairs and i'd force my family to listen
to it at dinner. I'd take the you know, the
ghetto blasters I used to call it, you know. I'd
take it downstairs and I'd be like, would you like
to hear my latest episode? And my family would reluctantly

(09:37):
be like sure, And I'd play my radio show and
my song and my rap and my everything that was
on it. Because of these beautiful cassette recorders.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, you know what I used to do. The other
I was on the other side of the coin. My
cousin and I we used to go into my bedroom.
We'd have the little record player and we would put
the record player on and we would record ourselves singing.
So we were the singers. And do you remember the
song enough is Enough Barbara a Summer yep, that was
our thing. So I was Barbara Streuison. She was don

(10:10):
a Summer and we would sing this song and like
the amount of times I was able to hold that note,
I couldn't do it now. But we used to record
all of that. I'm recording.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Well, my sister and I did record.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
I would have been I think five, and she would
have been fifteen. And we actually recorded ourselves singing a
song from the Kids from Fame.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
The Kids are Fame.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
There was a Fame, there was a Fame movie, and
then there was the Fame TV show and they had
a soundtrack for the TV show and we.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Had everything at my house. It was great.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
And yeah, she and I recorded this song Starmaker I
think it was called, and the two of us sang
it together, and I think about it now, it's actually
a really beautiful sister moment because she obviously she can
sing as well. Actually, but she, you know, was like, oh,
let's record ourselves, and I think she's blocked it from
her memory.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
I remember it, but yeah, that was I think it
was about five.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, geez.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
But I had bigger things in mind.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
I was like, oh no, I'm going to have my
own radio show and I'm going to play everybody.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I was going to be the singer, like, who needs.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
A community when I can just be a one woman show?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Funny.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
So now, yes, the gift.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Firing that up and playing the can I actually record
that into the computer as well. It's got a USB connection.
Oh that's a fancy maybe it fancy fancy. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
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Speaker 3 (12:02):
Mm mm hmm
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