It’s no secret—I love airline ads and safety videos. Alaska Airlines just dropped a new parody ad and it’s brilliant. (I can’t believe no airline has used the Safety Dance before!)
The ad features eleven Alaska Airlines employees. They learned the routine at home, followed by an eight-hour dress rehearsal and two days of shooting in an Alaska Airlines hangar and a Boeing 737 cabin trainer mockup.
Here are the lyrics:
S-A-F-E-T-Y
Safety dance
We can fly where you want to, we can leave your house behind
but if your friends don’t mask and why don’t they mask well they won’t fly this airline
You can fly if you want to ’cause we do safety right
We have air that’s clean and disinfectant machines zapping germs like an arcade space fight
And we dance, do the dance, everybody wash some hands
Do the dance, do the dance, while always wearing a mask
Do the dance, do the dance, no seriously please wash your hands
Do the dance, do the dance, HEPA filters cleaning commence
Alaska’s safety dance, Alaska’s safety dance, Alaska’s safety dance…
And for those of you who weren’t around in 1983, here’s the Men Without Hats’ original Safety Dance. (Fun fact: the original song was a protest of overzealous health and safety rules brought in to protect disco dancers at clubs.)
Twist’s Take: Kudos to Alaska Airlines for a fabulous ad. With any luck, it may not be too long until it’s obsolete. NOW I JUST HAVE TO GET THE TUNE OUT OF MY HEAD.
