You have to pick a new national anthem for the US, but it has to be a song that plays at least once a week on your city's equivalent of Jack-FM (a sort of all-purpose "top 40 from 1970 to 2010" station, skewing rock but not averse to pop/R&B/etc.).
Important things about this song:
--it is unusually self-reflective for a US anthem
--but only to a point, reflecting our current age of thinking about our terrible past but, you know, not _too_ hard. Can't make anybody mad, you know?
--it is a song about Spider-man, a famous American
Imagining a full stadium of people singing "Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional as Katie Ledecky stands atop the Olympic podium and getting a little misty.
My favorite thing about the song is that Mr. Dashboard saw Spider-man 2 one time, then wrote that song in a couple of hours. A masterpiece of a film, a masterpiece of a song, that's what America is capable of.
I sing it half-ironically every time I am provably right about something in an argument with my wife. So… not as often as I’d like but still probably too much.
