Released: November 15, 1993

Songwriter: Kenny Laguna Joan Jett

She works real hard to try to make things right
To see if she can find a reason for what's wrong in life
She puts her thoughts into magazine form
And passes them all around her dorm
Showing me another way another way to fight

Activity Grrrl trying to change the world
She's gonna knock on your door
Activity Grrl in an uptight world
She's impossible to ignore

She spends her days involved in community things
At night she'll go out to a club where she likes to sing
She teaches so the others will know
There's more beneath the skin that doesn't show
And she's looking at the challenge that tomorrow's bringing

Activity Grrrl trying to change the world
She's gonna knock on your door
Activity Grrl in an uptight world
She's impossible to ignore

Hopes to fix the problems that come within her space
And takes hurting people real serious you can see it on her face
She can't accept that life is unfair
She wants to think that others care
When some poor soul with no control is there for us embrace

Activity Grrrl trying to change the world
She's gonna knock on your door
Activity Grrl in an uptight world
She's impossible to ignore

Activity Grrrl trying to change the world
She's gonna knock on your door
Activity Grrl in an uptight world
She's impossible to ignore

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

After splitting with The Runaways, and releasing her first solo album, Joan Jett placed an ad in LA Weekly looking for bandmates. Gary Ryan, Eric Ambel, and Danny “Furious” O'Brien joined her, creating the orginial Blackhearts lineup.

After their initial tour though, O'Brien was replaced with Lee Crystal.

Early on, keeping the band afloat was not easy. Joan and producer Kenny Laguna struggled, sometimes selling copies of albums from the trunk of his car. Eventually unable to keep up with the demand for Joan Jett’s album, they signed with Boardwalk Records.