One Quarterflash, Three Parts Foolish

In the United States, statistics show, a girl is walking out on her no-good man every 15 minutes. Statistics also show that 15 minutes later they’re going out and buying the Quarterflash record.

“I’d say,” says Rindy Ross, tiny and pert and looking ready for a tennis game, “two-thirds of the people who buy the record are women. And they say things like, ‘I can really understand “Harden My Heart.’ ” In fact, one woman said it was her divorce song.”

“A lot of women,” says Marv Ross, slightly dishevelled and wrapped in a leather jacket, “claim to own the Song, like this is MY song. Interesting.”

“I’ve said that a few times in high school —you just tie into a song because it says everything you’re feeling at the time. There’s always,” she confides Cosmopolitanly, “some girl who’s breaking up with her boyfriend, and she’s just not going to take this shit anymore. This is it!”