There are a lot of choices that could be made for Clare, here. Patsy Cline's Crazy certainly springs to mind as she is so obviously and delightfully nuts. Or something aggressive like Heart's Barracuda could be a great fit as a marker of her wildly misguided possessiveness. But in addition to being a defining anthem that reveals what is truly in your heart, a karaoke song must be chosen by its singer (unless you fall in with the wrong crowd and find yourself in a deadly game of Karaoke Roulette), and Clare very clearly doesn't realize that she is any of those things.
But what Clare does realize and what she has repeatedly set out to prove is that she is looking for a man just like her Daddy. Songs about undying love between fathers and daughters tend to be a little...intense. When I was planning my wedding, picking a song for the father-daughter dance was far and away one of the hardest tasks. Definitely, this was in large part because my recently retired father pretty much took care of everything else - including my accessories for the day - but also certainly, it was in large part because every song written about fathers and daughters is either unpalatably saccharine or wildly uncomfortable to listen to on a day when you've just vowed to spend the rest of your life with another man.
Look, I know Clare's father passed away, and I don't begrudge her a moment of her grief or missing him regardless of how long it's been. But his current state of animation notwithstanding, regardless of how wonderful he was or the teachers of Freud and the ancient Greeks, it is just a little creepy to tell a guy that you are currently dating that you are looking for a man who's just like dear old dad.
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