“Some other tribute acts do take this all-girl thing to a totally different level,” Ward says. “We were never trying to be political. We would never say, ‘We’re chicks and we can rock, too!’ I mean, of course chicks can rock. But there are other all-girl bands where that is absolutely their agenda, and they’re feminists and they make feminist statements. We’ve been asked to play at political events and to do fund-raisers, but we always say no. Our agenda is to have no agenda. Rock ’n’ roll has nothing to do with politics. Even if we agree with the politics, we still refuse to do those events,
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