Since the Bangles have been on an extended hiatus, Susanna Hoffs regularly has fun splashing around in her nightclub, rekindling her feelings as a fan, especially in the series Under the Covers, three decades revisited with Matthew Sweet between 2006 and 2013. Here she is at it again, in the company of director Peter Asher and the Immediate Family, the veteran musicians who surrounded Linda Ronstadt. Variant, just to demonstrate that she can, our dear Sue rubs shoulders mainly with recent titles, here Billie Eilish (When the Party’s Over), there Brandy Clark (Pawnshop), even the Ed Sheeran (Afterglow), in its soft baroque folk way that makes everything smile. Her 1960s, this time, are updated: she feminizes theUnder my Thumb of the Stones, and proclaims You Don’t Own Me, 59 years after Leslie Gore. More liberated than ever, Susanna Hoffs is publishing her first novel these days: This Bird Has Flown. It reads like she sings: with tenderness and biting.
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