'The Pretenders'

To me, The Pretenders have a series of unrelated pop culture touchstones that have nothing to do with this or any other record. 

If you remember, in the film adaptation of High Fidelity, Catharine Zeta-Jones’ character puts on a Pretenders T-shirt while the hero, Rob, talks about being an imposter while in a relationship with her because she was so much more smarter and beautiful than the quality of female he should be able to attract. Sure enough, she cheats on him. 

Two, "My City Was Gone"Learning to Crawl was adopted by radio host Rush Limbaugh as his “bumper” music (tuneage used coming in and out of commercial breaks) in 1984. Limbaugh might have liked the bass line. Knowing that Chrissie Hynde is a strict environmentalist and animal activist admittedly gives him a little pleasure; although, Hynde doesn’t care either allowing him to keep using it and using part of the royalties received as a donation to PETA. 

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Finally, Hynde has always been a standard bearer for the female rock and roll crush. Not that she’s heinous or deformed, but a beauty queen she is not. I think guys – especially in the late 1970s and ‘80s – loved Hynde because she and Stevie Nicks were the only real females in the genre. Also, I think we all sorta have a fetish or sleeping with a songwriter and being “that guy” standing on the side of the stage high on cocaine.