{"id":609,"date":"2010-02-10T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2010\/02\/10\/young-readers-beyonce-and-scholar-ladies\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:10:00","slug":"young-readers-beyonce-and-scholar-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Young Readers, Beyonce, and "Scholar Ladies""},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch how a group of students take a song about sex appeal and make it about smarts. Alison’s charming video<\/a> with the pint-sized Hamlet yesterday reminded me that I’d been meaning to share this one, which has been making the rounds recently, and I can’t tell you how much I love it!! What a fun school environment! What great kids!!! Somehow, I’ll just bet they have a great library there in Milwaukee.
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\nThis has me all jazzed up to reclaim a bunch of songs featuring scantily clad women gyrating, and turn them into girl-power, kid-power, reading-power power ballads, pop songs, and raps. Any ideas? I’ll start.
\nPOKER FACE becomes READING RACE, to celebrate a county-wide reading competition (can’t you hear it now? “ma-ma-ma-my reading race…”.)
\nDISTURBIA becomes DYSTOPIA, and the lyrics booktalk a bunch of great novels in the genre.
\nHOLLABACK GIRL becomes, of course, PAPERBACK GIRL.
\nGET UR FREAK ON becomes GET UR READ ON.
\nAnd really, so much could be done with The Black-Eyed Peas’ LET’S GET IT STARTED (already a revamp of a less appetizing version of itself), the mind reels. Listen to the murmur growing: reading-reading and reading-reading….
\nWith apologies to the band, it would go something like this:
\nAnd the kids keep readin’ readin’, and readin’ readin’, and readin’ readin’, and readin’ readin’, and readin’ readin’, and readin’ readin’, and readin’ readin’, and readin’ readin’, and…
\nIn this chapter, there’s some laughter, we got to finish it, there’s math after.
\nWe got five minutes to reach the denoument, so don’t hem and haw, work your jaw read loud now
\nCharacters are in a pickle, a villain holds a sickle, there’s suspense you feel the hair back of your neck prickle.
\nAnd when we read yeah, we succeed, yeah.
\nYou won’t believe how much we know about.
\nRead till the light’s burned out.
\nHow does it all turn out?
\nBooks are from north, west, east, south.
\nEverybody, everybody, let’s get into it.
\nGet reading
\nGet it started, get it started, get it started.
\nLet’s get it started (ha), let’s get it started in here.
\nLet’s get it started (ha), let’s get it started in here.
\nLet’s get it started (ha), let’s get it started in here.
\nLet’s get it started (ha), let’s get it started in here. Yeah.
\nYou have any hit song\/reading mash-up ideas to share? Post ’em here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watch how a group of students take a song about sex appeal and make it about smarts. Alison’s charming video with the pint-sized Hamlet yesterday reminded me that I’d been meaning to share this one, which has been making the rounds recently, and I can’t tell you how much I love it!! What a fun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}