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Music video: Granddad's 'Kirstie Alley's Rules to a Good Time'

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Punk/emo band Granddad -- composed of guitarist and singer Kellen Baker and drummer Matthew Harris -- riffs on themes of love and loss in the music video "Kirstie Alley's Rules to a Good Time."

Growing up gay in socially conservative Nome, singer songwriter Kellan Baker "felt that acceptance and a normal life were always just out of reach," the band wrote in a press release. The song's lyrics were inspired by a longing for a "normal" life: "I want to see the world / I wanna be old some day / I want to raise a little girl," Baker sings.

In the music video directed by Emma Sheffer (who also directed the recent "Animal Sounds" music video from The Modern Savage), a succession of couples kiss on a couch. As people in the couple change, the video highlights of spectrum of matches, showing "any number of combinations create a relationship," the band writes. The point is that "sometimes you have to kiss a lot of people to learn what you really want."

Granddad will play Pasta Avanti, in downtown Anchorage, Jan. 4, and at Tap Root Public House on Jan. 9, 2015.

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