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You And Me is performed by Alice Cooper on The Muppet Show in his 1978 season 3 appearance as a duet with the appropriately creepy Beakie, a bird-ish Muppet who was the embodiment of Miss Piggy after she was transformed by Cooper. Not at all typical of Alice Cooper, this is a very romantic soft rock song by the Grandfather of Goth. It is every man's love song to his significant other - celebrating the everyday pleasures of two people sharing their lives together. This love ballad was a significant departure from Cooper's usual dark-themed rockers. It was the last in a trilogy of ballads Cooper recorded, following “Only Women Bleed“ and “I Never Cry“ He has described this genre as “heavy metal housewife rock.“ In an interview with Creem magazine a few months after the release of “You and Me,“ Cooper discussed the impetus behind his trilogy of ballads: “I did those songs totally out of spite,“ he said. “I kept reading so many in
