More to the original point of this thread, since I do music for retirement communities and nursing homes, I often get requests for songs like "Stand By Your Man" and "My Way."

Now, "My Way" is a fine song for a person "of a certain age" (even though it was written by then-25-year-old Paul Anka), but it really is a bit melodramatic and grandiose - not to mention overdone.   So it's hard for me to sing it with a totally straight face instead of hamming it up and turning it into a comic impression of "ol' Blue Eyes."

And "Stand By Your Man" has all the vomit-inducing qualities of "My Way" PLUS espousing a view of "sex roles" that I do not share.   I'm afraid when I do admit that I know the song and actually honor the request to sing it, I do kind of treat it as a parody of itself (complete with fake Tammy Wynette accent).   If I were in the audience, I'd be giggling.