Sometimes, Girls Just Want to Sing

You innocently happen upon the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 2026 induction ceremony on the first day of the new year. You see some faces and hear some voices: flashes from the past. Some of them bring casual comfort — memories of what seem like simpler times, even if they weren’t, given the constantly impending Soviet threat of nuclear war and all the rest. In a somewhat rare moment of relaxation — and while it’s still the Christmas season — you start singing along with an old familiar tune.

And then it becomes political.