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Playing music might help, one of them suggests.

Pictured: A Richard Marx fan.

Good idea, Shawn responds.

Choose something deeply terrible to inspire us.

He sent Vulture three reasons:

  1. and then play that one.

I love that song.

I emailed back the guy who handles the clearances for my songs and said, Go for it.

A few minutes later my manager, Diarmuid [Quinn], called me.

Dude, what the fuck?!

You cant let them use your song that way!!!

Do you really think some fictional character on a TV show making a joke about it affects that?

That song is immensely bigger than a 10-second gag on a sitcom.

To that kid, we offer the below YouTube video.

And to all Marx fans, a reminder thathes touring this fall.