As the Republican Convention wrapped up, the arena was rocking to Heart’s 1977 hit “Barracuda,” an homage to Sarah Palin’s nickname from her high school basketball days.
The next day Heart’s Nancy Wilson weighed in. She wasn’t happy.
Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women… ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The ‘barracuda’ represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.”
Oh well, here’s Heart back in 1977. (The Wilson sisters were much thinner back then, but who wasn’t.)
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