Now it’s bittersweet, showing flashes of a relationship that might have gone the distance but, in the end, didn’t. The sisters wrote the song together about five years ago their producer pushed them to resurrect its musical bones but to change its lyrics and core idea. She recalls a duality: accepting AJ’s version of events wholesale, but also thinking, “Are you sure? Really? You really think that you died?”Ī perfect example: “Way Way Back,” which also appears on the album’s extended edition, still sounds effervescent, even though its subject matter-young love that wasn’t meant to last-is enough to crush your heart. There are other hints in the lyrics to “Dead on the Beach”-“A man lifts me up / he brings me to the shade” conjures a distinct image-and at one point in our conversation, Aly Michalka, who wasn’t with AJ when whatever happened happened, describes trying to understand what her sister went through.
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Once you’ve heard it, it’s impossible to forget.
Her song “ Dead on the Beach” serves as a journal entry, its simple lyrics (“Dead on the beach / you’re on your phone”) and eerie, stripped-down chords capturing her shock and trauma such that a listener understands it through osmosis.ĪJ wrote the song in “one fell swoop” at her dad’s house in Laguna Beach, and it appears intact on the deluxe edition of Aly & AJ’s latest album, a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun, out February 11.
AJ Michalka doesn’t want to go into detail about what happened that day in May 2020.
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