[1] The song's narrator, frustrated at his contentious relationship with his lover, opts to relax and forget about his troubles with a soda.

"Go for Soda" was released in 1984 as the lead single from Mitchell's first full-length solo album, Akimbo Alogo.

[1] It was featured in the opening scene of the 1985 Miami Vice episode "Buddies" and popularized in a series of television commercials for the soft drink Mr. Pibb.

It depicts a doll-sized Kim Mitchell hopping out of a television set, mystifying the teenaged boy watching it as he proceeds to dance and teleport around the house.

He eventually opens the refrigerator to find Mitchell and the song's other instrumentalists performing inside, all of them doll-sized, before they transform into unbranded cans of soda.