First Watch: The Apache Relay, 'Katie Queen Of Tennessee' — npr.org

The Apache Relay's "Katie Queen of Tennessee" is easily one of the catchiest tunes I've heard this year. And in the song's new video, a troupe of 40 young dancers raise the fun to heights I hadn't imagined with a blissfully, perfectly choreographed routine. Then I discovered this: These kids, from the Nashville Dance Center, aren't dancing to the music of The Apache Relay at all, but a medley of hair metal songs. The story goes something like this: When director Hayley Young was thinking of how to make a video for the song, she wanted dancers from Nashville to be part of the act. A search online brought her to a routine by the Nashville Dance Center set to music from the musical Rock of Ages. She turned the hair metal down, cranked up the tune from Apache Relay's new self-titled album and — like The Wizard of Oz meeting Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon for the first time — discovers a match that was simply meant to be.

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