An object of excessive attention or reverance...Fixation....This is Fetish. With that definition in mind, the hard rocking chords kick off an undeniable foray into the deviant world of S&M. I have a totally different viewpoint than the other reviewer of this single, and one I think needed to be seen. If you have had the pleasure of seeing Joan Jett sing this song live, you would know, it comes from within. This is no sales gimmik, no attempt to carve a new niche, this is Joan! Pure, hard-core, honest Joan Jett. She sweats each note out with every pore in her body and enjoys the reaction that is returned from the listening ears! I have never witnessed anyone, and I am talking non-fans, that haven't left wanting more! She rocks harder and better today than ever before! Now, if mainstream radio just would have such an open mind!!! BUY THIS, or better yet, buy the compilation disc that this song is included on!

Joan Jett has an admirable presence in the rock and roll arena, and I really hate to cut down someone as gutsy as Jett, who defies the status-quo and the Nineties norm of willowy, high-pitched female folk singers now so vogue. But I get the feeling, while listening to this, that she's trying too hard to appeal to the "fetish" crowd that's becoming more in vogue, thus she's merely tapping a different market of popularity strivance rather than creating something new and original. It's also belatedly on the heels of the post-grunge rockers' movement; the song sounds too much like Offspring and the Afghan Whigs getting together for a jam party. Neither the "tame" nor the "triple-X" version strike a chord with me as being particularly "sexually adventurous," as Kenny Laguna recently described "Fetish" in an interview I read with him going on and on about how great and "original" "Fetish" was conceptually...huh?!? Fetishes have been around since the oldest profession and primitive toe-licking, but that's beside the point. If I want sexual adventure, I'll listen to Liz Phair or P.J. Harvey from now on...those artists not only write and perform well, but they have been sexually adventurous since the early Nineties. Poor Joan is just a little too late, methinks...