AV Club: I don’t mean this to be an insulting question, but…there’s no irony in your love for [George Michael’s ‘One More Try’]?
Sam Beam: Well, I mean you can say it’s a goofy 80’s song and so that makes it ironic, but, you know, there’s a lot of songs from the 80’s that are great tunes that are masked by production….
Sam Beam of Iron and Wine, before his AV Club Underground performance of “One More Try.” (link here).
THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING. Thank you, Sam Beam, for understanding why I dig so much 80’s music (and why the upcoming episode featuring “Africa” is going to destroy me for the entire following week).
