A call to get physical

Joey de Leon intros the number with "O ano mga darling? Ready na ba kayo?" and then segues into what has become the most played tune in the country today, the Spageti Song by the Sexbomb Girls.

"Apir tayo sumakit ang ulo ko sumakit ang baywang ko

Sexbomb, Sexbomb, Sexbomb

Apir tayo sumakit ang dibdib ko sumakit ang tuhod ko

Sexbomb, Sexbomb, Sexbomb

Spagetting pababa, pababa nang pababa

Spagetting pataas, pataas nang pataas

Spagetting pababa, pababa nang pababa

Spagetting pataas, spagetting pababa

Ayokong pumayat, ayokong tumaba

Ayoko ring matulad sa isang dambuhala

Ayoko sa lahat yung buto’t balat

Ayoko ring tawagin na tabatchoy at payat

Ang gusto ni tsupot, ay sexy, sexy, sexy, sexy

Kaya mag-exercise yan ang aking masasabi

Igiling pababa, igiling pataas

Tunawin ang taba para ito ay lumabas

At sa mapapayat, bata o may edad

Igalaw ang katawan at huwag tatamad-tamad

Kung gusto nyong sumeksi gumanda ang inyong body

Lahat ay sumayaw yan ang aking masasabi

Spagetti ...

Spageti Song must be the most hilarious call to get physical ever since Yoyoy Villame called out the numbers in his Mag-exercise Tayo many, many years ago. It is being dismissed as just another fad. But it cannot be denied that the kiddies are dancing pataas and pababa. Their parents are watching the Sexbomb Girls on Eat... Bulaga!. People are saying that the girls are no longer flashes in the pan. Spageti Song has made their new album Round 2 a huge hit. Can you believe it? The Sexbomb Girls have beaten the sophomore jinx! And Joey de Leon is as crisp as ever, throwing puns, double-entendres and not so subtle digs at the opposition. I initially thought he wrote the lyrics of the song but no, credit for this phenomenon goes to Lito Camo, a moderately successful recording artist some years ago, who found his true calling as songwriter and producer of the Sexbomb Girls.

Okay, it is sheer nonsense. The song is not only grammatically wrong but grammatically weird. It is slang or swardspeak taken to new limits. Take note though that what the serious and eternally correct might dismiss as an affront to language, English or Filipino, or to Italian pasta, is actually a stroke of genius. Can you name anybody else who can taste or look at spaghetti and see in it the image of a Sexbomb girl dancing pataas and pababa with all the right bumps and gyrations? No one. Except for Camo. So let us all keep watch on the guy and see what ridiculous marvels he will come up with in the future.

The same formula, although not on the same infectious level, permeates the other cuts in the album. I hear hints of late-’50s pop a la Annette Funicello meeting up with the Manila Sound. I hear Tom Jones’ kind of R&B in the arrangements. And I see Madonna wanna-be’s lending feminine pulchritude and humor to noontime TV. No doubt about it anymore. The Sexbomb Girls are here to stay. And if you want to listen to more of them after dancing pataas and pababa, there are other songs in the album for you to enjoy: Kahit Sino, Kiss Sabay Hug, Loveless, Sige, Sige with guest Janno Gibbs, Di Pwede Yan, Baby, ang Sarap, Ang Gusto Namin, I’m Not that Girl, Choto Mate Kudasai, Mama’s Girl and Kung Ako’y Magkakajowa.

Incidentally, the very popular Sexbomb Girls are Rochelle, Izzy, Weng, Jopay, Yvette and Monique. I am sure they perform everywhere these days but if you want to make that you will catch them during the day, check out the noontime show Eat... Bulaga! on GMA 7 for their regular, "laban-bawi" kind of dancing.

Here now are the popular songs of the moment which of course include Sexbomb’s Spageti. To Love You More by the 14-year-old Star for a Night search winner Sarah Geronimo; Can’t Lose You by the Taiwan group F4 of Meteor Garden fame; Spageti Song by the Sexbomb Girls; If You’re Not the One by British singer and songwriter David Bedingfield; Passenger’s Seat by Stephen Speaks; Pangarap Ko ang Ibigin Ka by Regine Velasquez; In Da Club by 50 Cent; Flexin’ by the boy group Blue with our very own Kyla; Foolish Heart by Nina; and I Know What You Want by Busta Rimes featuring Mariah Carey.