AU idea: Post-movie Celine’s not doing too hot. Depression has come back with a vengeance along with years of unresolved grief and trauma and she’s barely holding it together. Coupled with the fact that the girls want some space and she’s facing a crisis of “I’m no longer needed what do I do now” mentality about to boil over.
Cut to a group of new characters. They are all middle-aged/older woman, many of whom either never married or lost their husbands or are divorced. They’re trying to put together a band since they all have retirement time and empty nest syndrome. The only trouble is no one takes them seriously being who they are and the fact their music choice is heavily inspired by hard alternative rock with an emphasis on angsty lyrics. That, and they don’t really have a good lead singer. Yes, they can all sing perfectly well, but they’re all better with instruments and without a killer voice at the lead the rest of it just falls apart.
They’re hanging out in a bar one day discussing their dilemma when a lone, miserable figure enters and plunks herself down at the far end of the bar, orders a double whiskey straight, and otherwise ignores everyone else.
But they know who she is.
It’s through a lot of convincing and a few more glasses of whiskey that they convince Celine to join them on the venue’s dinky little stage and sing a song, and the rest is history.
