
I’d probably end up singing the football version onstage by accident. “I’m just glad I don’t have to sing the new versions. “I’m not Kanye West and I’m not on the radio all the time, so it helps keep my band paid,” she says. So that’s $272,000 as a base figure, which will be split 50/50 with Desmond Child.” When added to performance royalties, international screenings of ‘SNF,’ as well as sales of the original track prompted by fans hearing it, Gretton estimates it would have netted at least a cool half-million for Jett alone.īizarrely, the writers of “I Hate Myself for Loving You” initially didn’t want to hand over their baby to NBC, but Jett has come to terms with it. “But even so, it’s a well-viewed show, so I think she probably got a couple of grand a week, times that by a 17-week season over eight years. Joan Jetts first music teacher told her girls couldnt play rock and roll. “ 2006 was a bit of a lean period for Joan, so NBC probably low-balled her,” she speculates. Please visit my companion site, I hate you poems for her: Cheating and. Veronica Gretton, founder of New York based music publishing company 401K Music Inc., estimates that although Jett won’t be hurting financially, she probably hasn’t earned quite enough to move next door to Mark Zuckerberg just yet. The track got a new lease on life in 2006 when NBC picked it up to be the theme tune of their primetime football show and renamed it “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night.” Over the past eight years, new versions with altered lyrics have been sung by Pink, Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood, but Jett and co-writer Child have enjoyed the spoils. Released in 1988 and co-written with songwriter Desmond Child (who also co-wrote some of Bon Jovi’s biggest singles), it originally hit the Top 10 on the Billboard chart. 'I Hate Myself for Loving You' and 'Little Liar' from her Up Your Alley album. The rock ’n’ roll queen isn’t someone who allows herself to splurge on $75,000 electric cars or other flashy accessories very often, but it’s one of the things that “I Hate Myself for Loving You” - the theme to NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” - has bought her. As frontwoman for the Runaways, Joan Jett became a female pioneer in the male-dominated world of rock music.

“When I bought it a few months back, it was the only one in Nassau County,” Jett, now 55 and still touring hard with her band the Blackhearts, tells The Post.

She’ll be the one riding around in a brand-new Cadillac ELR. Joan Jett And The Blackhearts streams lockdown performance of their 1988 hit I Hate Myself For Loving You, live from isolation during the pandemic outbreak. The next time you happen to be on Long Island, look out for Joan Jett.
