I just want to point out that the fourth name on this list is spelled incorrectly, or at least, I don't know of anyone named Susan who spells their name like that. The correct (and traditional) spelling is, in fact, SUSAN. Unless the band was referring to former model and businesswoman (not to mention flight attendant) Suzen Johnson. However, the scandal where she seduced ex-football player and commentator Frank Gifford would not happen until 1997, more than a decade after this song was released and made a hit.
In other words, this song also served as inspiration in my last completed (and yet to be published) novel, "The Wanderers," a dystopian work set in the Republic of Dallenlea, which consisted of all of Canada, the state of Alaska, and the lower 48 states of the USA. Inspired by line number 36, I created a group of young women called Ninas, who are assigned to have babies for couples where, for the most part, the man cannot conceive a child for his wife. Whenever couple wants to have a child, they are assigned a Wanderer (a small handful of men, population-wise, who still have healthy reproductive systems that can produce sperm following a nuclear disaster and refusal to heed instructions) to have a baby with. If the husband does not trust the Wanderer to be with his wife, he is assigned a Nina to have to baby for the couple; neither the Wanderer nor the Nina can claim the baby for themselves. In reference to the line itself, Ninas are not allowed to live with their parents and must live by themselves until they are married (arranged marriage at a selected age, as they are forbidden to form romantic relationships with and/or marry Wanderers.)
I just want to point out that the fourth name on this list is spelled incorrectly, or at least, I don't know of anyone named Susan who spells their name like that. The correct (and traditional) spelling is, in fact, SUSAN. Unless the band was referring to former model and businesswoman (not to mention flight attendant) Suzen Johnson. However, the scandal where she seduced ex-football player and commentator Frank Gifford would not happen until 1997, more than a decade after this song was released and made a hit.
In other words, this song also served as inspiration in my last completed (and yet to be published) novel, "The Wanderers," a dystopian work set in the Republic of Dallenlea, which consisted of all of Canada, the state of Alaska, and the lower 48 states of the USA. Inspired by line number 36, I created a group of young women called Ninas, who are assigned to have babies for couples where, for the most part, the man cannot conceive a child for his wife. Whenever couple wants to have a child, they are assigned a Wanderer (a small handful of men, population-wise, who still have healthy reproductive systems that can produce sperm following a nuclear disaster and refusal to heed instructions) to have a baby with. If the husband does not trust the Wanderer to be with his wife, he is assigned a Nina to have to baby for the couple; neither the Wanderer nor the Nina can claim the baby for themselves. In reference to the line itself, Ninas are not allowed to live with their parents and must live by themselves until they are married (arranged marriage at a selected age, as they are forbidden to form romantic relationships with and/or marry Wanderers.)