I’m in a music-ey mood this week.
For this next song, I needed a band. Well, not a band really…I needed Pepa. Because Sheila requested a remake of “Let’s Talk About Sex” (into “Let’s Talk About Books,” of course) and you can’t talk about sex without Salt ‘n Pepa. Or, in this case, you can’t talk about books without Fizzy B and She. Fizzy B being me, of course, and She being Sheila. Sheila had to drop a syllable to fit into the song (because Salt says “Pep” a few times in the song and that extra syllable that Sheila sports just didn’t work for the song…and because every rapper needs a pseudonym…not that rappers call them pseudonyms, but you know what I mean. Right?).
And she doesn’t it know it yet, but Kim got co-opted for the part of DJ Spinderella (see the third verse)…simply because of this post and when I needed something to rhyme with flack, I thought of hack, and when I think of hack, I think of a certain author (even though, to be fair, I’ve never read any of his books). Hopefully Kim’s okay with the fact that she’s now in a band. And a song. By the way Kim, She will be in touch with you about the video of Push It that we’ll be working on next.
You really, really, really must listen to the song while you read it (although please ignore the few parts that don’t quite work…this one was hard, people!). Better yet, watch the video and picture Sheila dancing to Pepa’s part. I totally think she could pull it off.
“Let’s Talk About Books”
(Hey She.
Word.
Yo, I don’t think we should talk about this.
Come on, why not?
People might not care about what we’re tryin’ to say, you know?
Oh well, that’s their loss.)
Come on
Read on
Let’s talk about books, baby
Let’s talk about all the stories
Let’s talk about all our favorites
And for the bad ones…we’ll get snarky
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Oooh, let’s talk about books right now with people on our blogs or just out loud
Reading – it makes me say oh wow
Don’t delay, exchange, or change the topic
Cuz that ain’t gonna stop us
Now they talk about books those reviewers and purviewers
We’re reviewers, too, with skewers
Let’s tell ‘em what we think, and what we feel
Books that we like, and of course, books that appeal
Those who don’t like us have a choice
Shut down Reader, press delete, or turn the computer off
Will that stop us, She? I doubt it
All right then, come on, dish
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Hot off the press, make a reader’s eyes pop
We read what we want and get whatever we don’t got
Readers drool like fools, ‘cause the characters are so human
The book was a hit because the plot was boomin’
Fic, non-, YA, dystopians
Nothin’ we read is ever common
Our reads are so great, we got taste
Tolstoy, Austen, no one is too great for us to get with
Or even mess with, Cronin, we say, is next on the list
Boy howdy, whoa, eyes glued to the text
There ain’t an author alive (or dead) that we won’t read next
Keepin’ a book in our bag so that we won’t be bored
And one in the car ‘cause we’re so hard core
Thinkin’ about the books that we’ll never have
No Kant, just Night, followed next by Grisham and Jane Eyre
That last book was dope
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Read it all, y’all
Let’s talk about books, baby (read it)
Let’s talk about the ending (buy it, borrow it)
Let’s talk about all the good ones
And the bad ones… eh, maybe
Let’s talk about books (come on)
Let’s talk about books (do it)
Let’s talk about books (uh-huh)
Let’s talk about books
Bloggers, all the bloggers, louder now, help me out
Come on, all the bloggers – let’s talk about books…all night
Bloggers, all the bloggers, louder now, help me out
Come on, all the bloggers – let’s talk about books, all night
(Yo, She, I don’t think they’re gonna play this on the radio
But why not? Everybody knows how to read
I mean, everybody should be readin’ books
Just like us…we really dig the books.)
Let’s talk about books, baby
Let’s talk about all the stories
Let’s talk about all our favorites
And for the bad ones…we’ll get snarky
What we have here is subject to controversy
A four-letter word some regard as a curse – READ
But try it and you might find joy
Tho some find books one big annoy
What makes us react like that is so unlogical
If you read a series best try it chronological
The first right of the reader is to give flack
DJ Kimberella thinks Sparks is such a hack
As a matter of fact, sometimes it’s like that
But anyway, read it or not, books are phat
Fizzy B and She happen to think any book is where it’s at
“Oh well,” we say, “what the hell, it’s chill,
Just read a book, whatever you will”
And better yet pass one on…transfer
Like I did to Care, now Ian is all hers
Let’s talk about books, baby
Let’s talk about all the stories
Let’s talk about all our favorites
And for the bad ones…we’ll get snarky
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books, baby
Let’s talk about all the stories
Let’s talk about all our favorites
And for the bad ones…we’ll get snarky
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
Let’s talk about books
