Susanna Hoffs turned 67 over the weekend and posted a bare-faced Instagram video without any make-up or filters. “Hello, my friends. Today is my birthday, and I feel nothing but gratitude. A little older, and a little wiser. And just oh so grateful,” she says in the short clip, which surprised fans with just how youthful she looks at her age. Is The Bangles singer really an eternal flame?
If you grew up on watching MTV music videos in the ’80s and ’90s, Hoffs is already part of your memory bank. She fronted The Bangles, the all-female band that ruled late-’80s radio with “Walk Like an Egyptian”, “Manic Monday” (which was written by Prince), and their biggest hit, the slow-burn classic “Eternal Flame”. The band scored five Top 5 hits, became huge pop stars and then seperated by 1989. “It’s an overused word, but we were organic,” guitarist Vicki Peterson told the New York Times. “We formed ourselves, played the music we loved, we really were a garage band.” Drummer Debbi Peterson finished the thought. A garage band “that somehow became pop stars.”
But long after chart positions stopped mattering, Susanna Hoffs kept writing, singing, and showing up in the media. Today, she’s very active on social media. One day it’s a quiet reflection with morning coffee and Talking Heads playing as she says, “Top of the morning to you.” Another day it’s a full-on living room dance session to James Brown’s “Get Up Offa That Thing”, loose black pants, denim shirt, zero fuss. “Nothing brings me more joy than dancing to music!!” she wrote.
In 2025, Hoffs returned to “Eternal Flame”, the song she co-wrote in 1988 with Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. She released a new solo recording. “Here is a brand new recording of ‘Eternal Flame’ which I co-wrote in 1988 with my friends Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly,” she wrote. “I was inspired to sing it again! As I stood before the microphone, I fought back tears of gratitude for the opportunity to sing a song I have loved and cherished my entire adult life. We’ve grown up together!” Today, fans are still discovering the song. And it shows up at weddings, funerals and places where people are healing.
In 2024, Susanna Hoffs helped write a book called Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of the Bangles by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike. “I still wake up each morning, motivated to sing, to write, to make art, and to find ways to connect,” she shared. “I’m still that same girl with that same emotion—older, and hopefully wiser.”
At 67, Hoffs remains just as beautiful as she was in her 20s, giving new meaning to the words “eternal flame”.
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