She took a picture of them sharing family photos. It’s the stuff you see in fiction, in romantic comedies, not in real life.īut what Blair did next turned this feel-good story into something a little more uncomfortable.Īs the flight continued, Blair began documenting every interaction the new seatmates had.
The randomness of the chance encounter, the romance, the voyeuristic thrill - it’s a feel-good story that made the chaotic world we live in feel a little smaller, a little more friendly, and a little more hopeful. It’s not difficult to see why the story gained so much favor. To put that in perspective, President Donald Trump’s tweet about saving the United States from North Korea - a tweet with foreign policy implications, since there are reports circulating that North Korea is not winding down its nuclear arsenal as promised - was retweeted only 19,000-plus times. y51CRx1fXQ- Rosey Blair July 3, 2018īlair’s initial tweet garnered more than 300,00 retweets and 800,000-plus likes. Then she began posting to her Instagram story timeline, which she later cross-posted to Twitter over the course of 50-plus threaded tweets: The story starts and ends with a woman named Rosey Blair, who was traveling from New York City to Dallas when she asked a woman to switch seats so Blair could sit near her boyfriend. How a serendipitous airplane romance went from a feel-good story to a cautionary tale about privacy in the internet age What’s a little troublesome about the whole romantic saga is that the reason we know all these things is that the woman who switched seats and put this romance into motion shared photos and video of the whole thing on the internet, where it turned into a social media sensation - without the consent of the couple involved. The woman they switched with hit it off with her new seatmate - they engaged in conversation, found out they were both vegetarian personal trainers, talked about fitness tips, bought each other proteins, went to the bathroom and changed, and wound up deplaning together. The story starts out fun enough: A woman and her boyfriend switched plane seats with another passenger so they could sit together, and may have, by the blessing of the goddess Aphrodite, set a long-lasting romance into motion. Maybe the most famous song about flying, “Leaving on a Jet Plane” was written by John Denver and covered by artists including Peter, Paul and Mary, Frank Sinatra, and Liza Minnelli.Like a flight from New York City to Dallas, it took only a few hours for a viral romance to reach its final destination: problematic. It makes sense Miller would be attracted to the tune: His band’s previous single was called “Fly Like an Eagle.” More recently, Far East Movement coined a phrase with "Like a G6," which refers to the Gulfstream G650, a popular private jet. The Steve Miller Band cover of “Jet Airliner” was a hit song in the ‘70s.
However you feel about planes, you’re sure to find a song on this list that’ll have you flying high in no time. Lots of airplane songs use planes as a metaphor for running away, or simply suggest them as a very real, practical way of running away. This list of songs about airplanes covers the entire spectrum of aviation-related tuneage. Some musicians fear flying while others write odes to military aircraft. Musicians travel a lot, so they’ve written a lot of songs about airplanes. Flight is a modern miracle, and planes gets plenty of love in popular music.
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