You’ve come a long way, baby.

In the early 1970s there were a number of cultural shifts taking place in the United States. There was the women’s liberation movement, which Philip Morris co-opted to boost its Virginia Slims brand of cigarettes with that memorable advertising slogan and Billie Jean King showing women could beat men when she destroyed Bobby Riggs in three sets in the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” match in the Astrodome.

Then there was rap, which sprang from the Bronx, to quickly begin to challenge rock as the dominant staple of popular…