Rico Nasty has spoken about her admiration of Joan Jett, saying that the pioneering Blackhearts frontwoman “taught me how to take ‘No’ and smile”.Rico was speaking to NME in her debut Big Read cover interview about the influence she drew from Jett early on in her career.Rico said that she was particularly inspired by how Jett took on her male critics when she went solo in the late 1970s.“[Jett taught me] how to take ‘No’ and smile,” Rico said. “So many people told her that her music was too hard and too raw.“When I came on the scene, I was definitely on the softer side but then I started telling people to kiss my ass.
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