--- title: Bad Reputation PSA: Joan Jett and others get out the women's vote description: Carrie Brownstein, Natasha Lyonne and others lip sync Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" to encourage women to vote in the mid-term elections canonical: https://time.com/3546138/bad-reputation-psa-women-voting/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-29T17:41:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:14.068Z og:title: All of Your Heroes Teamed Up to Make a PSA Encouraging Women to Vote og:description: Carrie Brownstein, Natasha Lyonne and others lip sync Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" to encourage women to vote in the mid-term elections og:url: https://time.com/3546138/bad-reputation-psa-women-voting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: All of Your Heroes Teamed Up to Make a PSA Encouraging Women to Vote twitter:description: Carrie Brownstein, Natasha Lyonne and others lip sync Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" to encourage women to vote in the mid-term elections twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # All of Your Female Heroes Teamed Up to Make a PSA Encouraging Women to Vote > Sponsored content. 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In the PSA, women and girls of all ages — and a few male friends for good measure — lip sync to Jett’s “Bad Reputation,” shredding and head-banging for a cause. The legislative landscape, the video explains, has not been kind to women. Last year saw more laws passed to restrict reproductive rights than in the previous decade combined. The wage gap continues to yawn lazily without effective laws to reduce it. And what’s a woman to do about all of this? Get out and vote, that’s what. The video was produced by the Department of Peace, “an art collective geared toward creating consciousness-raising content and inspiring young people toward political participation and community-oriented action.” They remind women that access to reproductive health services is geographically uneven, highly dependent upon which state you live in, so high turnout from sea to sea (and especially in between) is as important as ever. While most of the song’s lyrics work well as a feminist anthem, at one point Jett sings, “It never gets better, anyway.” Well, perhaps it does. 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