The Bangles Are Back Together

We’ve been trying all weekend to come up with reasons why we should not care that The Bangles are back together, and even though we thought we’d come up with a few good ones, it turns out we do care.

Let’s start with the obvious … the band’s exotic front woman Susannah Hoffs is turning fifty years old next month. Obviously, this never should have happened, but the fact is she looks pretty damn good for a middle-aged rocker.

In another departure from our “Eternal Flame” fantasy, it turns out that Hoffs is married – but click here and tell us if fetal alcohol syndrome isn’t the first thing that comes to your mind when you look at her husband.

(Go ahead. It’s okay to admit something like that to yourself).

It’s also okay to fantasize about how something like that might “put her in play,” to borrow our friend DJ Slick’s description.

Other reasons?

Well, the band is really only famous because the artist formerly known as “androgynous symbol” (but now thankfully re-known as Prince) wrote Manic Monday for them.

But hey, we can overlook that …

Oh wait … we found a reason … from Hoffs’ interview last week with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

Things feel good now, especially with Barack Obama coming in as president, and the band’s in a good place as well. We’re at the tail end of what the music business used to be, and there’s a different way of doing things. … We’re lucky to still have the support of our fans, and it makes it easier to survive as a band.

Hold up … Barack Obama?

WTF? Was Susannah Hoffs not listening to Joe The Plumber?

We’re guessing that peddling Bangles reunion schwag isn’t the world’s most lucrative business, but it probably pays sufficiently for you to classify “Barack Obama coming in as president” as a bad thing.

Anyway, here’s Hoffs from back in the day … ahh, memories …