Let’s Do Sunset of J MICHAELS & THE WANNA-BE-A BAND bridges the simple, affectionate language of challenges and days of recovering in the life of a relationship. The track swings back and forth on daily arguments, misinterpretations, and the distance that can be left between human feelings after a rough day. J MICHAELS fearlessly unleashes the disappointment and wrath building up, yet the message does not seek to strike blame, but reconnection.

What’s most appealing about the track is that J MICHAELS does not even bother disguising the tension. He deals with real tension, like uptalks and obstinacy, yet makes the track something we can identify with due to it. But instead of keep it at that tension point, he gives us a release of confrontation. The repeatedly used phrase of “let’s do sunset” can’t be something as everyday as viewing the horizon—it becomes code for slowing down, letting go, and looking back as it applies to loving.

The concept of holding back before it all goes “too far” is a strong message that relationships require tender loving care, especially when emotions are running high. J MICHAELS appreciates that even as emotions reach fever pitch, it’s never too late to pick peace. The lyrics aren’t providing some sort of fairy-tale solution, yet they do imply that a brief, mutual time together can reunite people.

What inspires the song is that it invests in the possibility of rebirth of the minute details—to relax, center, with sand, sky, a drink. The fact that J MICHAELS sings of struggling, crying, and slinging obsceneties indicates that he’s walked the mile, yet he still invests in loving. The last scene of the removal of the shoes and looking at the sun setting seems to be the pledge of how, after the ugliest of conflicts, we can ever find our way back to one another.

This is warm, honest, and tender as a good sunset must be.