Help! I have a week to decide this. These are the 3 pointless, arbitrary guidelines I've come up with in selecting the song:
1. Nothing from before the year I was born (1982)
2. The lyrics must be unambiguously pro-love
3. Something "everybody" knows (this can mean a lot of things)
Here are the choices I've come up with, along with reasons I can't do them. Feel free to suggest something else, too.
(Not "everybody" knows this song.)
(Good choice, I just need to learn it.)
(Nobody remembers Hanson anymore)
(Is this song pro-love or anti-love? I can't actually tell)
(This song is almost certainly anti-love)
(It's from 1964)
(I can't think of a reason not to do this song other than it doesn't feel quite right)
Ari, if you're out there, feel free to weigh in.
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Please don't try to master One in a week. I'm sure you could work out a great rendition but if you don't give yourself time to do it justice, I'd go with something else. I vote for Coldplay or Depeche Mode.
Our wedding song was "Couldn't Ask for More" by Edwin McCain. It being the most "pro love" song I could find (none of the lyrics either in the verses or choruses have a message I couldn't believe in) was the reason I selected it, despite it not being "our" song.
Jacob claims not to know who Edwin McCain is despite the fact that he recorded 2 of the biggest (and imo cheesiest) love songs of the 90s/early 00s.
I would suggest you drop the "everyone needs to be familiar with it" requirement, as you have enough restrictions as it is, and you'd miss out on some great songs. I didn't know the "I Could Not Ask for More" song until Tracie put it on our wedding soundtrack, and I wouldn't trade it for any other song.
Also, no Coldplay. Chris Martin sounds like a whiny cat. But I guess if you sing it, it may be ok.
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