She’d been described, in a retrospective piece written in 2004, as having looked, when she performed, like "a weaponized version of Françoise Hardy." He wasn’t sure he could see it, exactly, and he’d also Googled Françoise Hardy to make the direct comparison. Françoise Hardy was more conventionally pretty, he thought, and he wasn’t sure what "weaponized" was supposed to mean, in that context. He supposed the writer had been trying to capture something of whatever she’d projected in live performance.