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In an effort to actually put more, you know, content on here, I’m starting what I hope to be a daily “Song of the Day” feature. My musical tastes are decidedly eclectic, and span from Forties crooners and swing to modern pop and rock. Oh, you’re excited, I can tell.

The auspicious inaugural SotD post goes to the very inauspicious “Word Up” by Cameo.

Seriously, though. Cheesy as it is, it makes you want to shake the junk in your trunk, don’t lie. Now, some of you know why I love this song (Beyond the obvious—Who doesn’t love dubious Eighties R&B?), but the rest of you I will have to educate.

To fully appreciate this song, you have to watch the music video. Go ahead, go bask in that. No, your eyes aren’t fooling you, that is indeed LeVar Burton telling Cameo via a megaphone to “don’t even think about it.” What they’re supposed to not think about remains a mystery to me even after repeated watchings, but it may just be that I’m hypnotized by Larry Blackmon’s inexplicable giant red codpiece.

That was the Eighties, kids. Tell your brother, your sister and your momma, too.