Trying to explain…if you were to pick a single song that would be capable of putting you / your partner in a great mood immediately while you were having a crushing fight…right or wrong…or let’s say you’re having a terrible relationship argument, and you can pick a song to shut it down…
My family has two, both courtesy of our father. He would sing the 1970s Burger King jingle "Have it your way… " or, alternately and to the tune of Auld Lang Syne,
“I hate like hell
to doubt your word
but it sounds
like bullshit to me…”
repeat ad infinitum.
I was at a minor-league hocky game once and a fight between to players broke out. They put a picture of Barney, the goofy purple dinosaur on the large screen, and played his song:
♪"I love you…you love me…♫
Even the guys on the ice were laughing so hard they skated away from each other.
This actually happened, sort of, when I accused my then boyfriend of ogling another much prettier girl. He started singing “You Got What It Takes” - you know the song, ‘you don’t dress in the best of taste, nature didn’t give you such a beautiful face, but baaayyybeeee, you got what it takes! To SATISFY!’ I had to laugh, I could have been all offended and gone all girly-weepy, but we really loved each other a lot. And the girl he ogled, compared to plain old me, was so far out of my league she could have been a different species.