Overview
- At the Nov. 8 ceremony in Los Angeles, Roan presented Lauper for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, framing the honor around Lauper’s decades of influence.
- Roan’s look recreated Lauper’s 1986 imagery: a newspaper skirt by Efrain Nava, a chandelier headdress by Manny Robertson, and coordinated newsprint nails by Rachel Sun.
- Nava said the skirt used multiple full newspapers and intentionally highlighted contemporary topics, including stories on trans athletes, rainforest coverage, and the Palisades fire.
- During her introduction, Roan briefly stumbled on the teleprompter and uttered an apparent slip before recovering with a quip about needing contacts, drawing laughs from the audience.
- Lauper accepted with a message about women lifting one another and performed a medley featuring True Colors, Time After Time, and Girls Just Want to Have Fun with RAYE, Avril Lavigne, and Salt-N-Pepa, as Roan later praised her as a formative influence in posts after the show.