I wonder if PBS Digital Studios was given any firsthand source material on Janis Joplin? For instance, was PBSDS given photos of Janis Joplin? This character they’ve drawn looks more like Gwyneth Paltrow (with specs) than Joplin. I know these cute animations are meant to stir renewed interest in Joplin (and Jim Morrison, etc) but do they have to visually collapse the audio content into catch phrases and cute niceness and fun? Though I guess there is something heroic about seeing a goofy cartoon Janis Joplin vacuuming like the frazzled mom from “The Family Circus”
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