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2026-04-19 15:11 UTC

Now, to be fair, it is a pastiche, and he's a stylistic chameleon. But Airline Amy always struck me as one of Weird Al's most earnest songs. Part of it is, singing about a woman framed with her job as the focus for the story and metaphors is innately hokey, so he just let's it be hokey. https://youtu.be/fK5TiqQn7wo

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@edwardclaytonandrew@kind.social 2026-04-19 15:20

Wait what George Wade and Dallas can harmonise? Yeah. I think it was Wade that once described the band's sound as "Catholic school girls in a knife fight". Usually George is doing the shriek, Wade a grounded growl, and Dallas croons. Here, wonderful layered vocals convey it all, and it's still undeniably The Only Band Ever, Alexisonfire. The Catholic school girls are college. The knives are still out. But they've learned to be subtle. https://youtu.be/eM000rNdKnI

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