11.   And sing about frogs.

12.   And without anybody singing about soda pop.

13.   And without being grandiose or literary or even particularly clever with his lyrics, he sings about drugs with a squalid honesty.

14.   And, frankly, singing about sadness and pain is not the way I want to live my life.

15.   As usual, he sings about feeling stuck and bored.

16.   As usual, McClinton sang about love and lust.

17.   At the time, he was widely dismissed as a David Bowie and Roxy Music knockoff, an androgynous Englishman singing about alienation and dystopias.

18.   At one point, Ms. Simone sang about praying five times a day to Allah, something not usually heard in a gospel song.

19.   Band after band sang about crying over heartbreak.

20.   Bertha sings about the secrets of love.