Let's Be Bad

Let's Be Bad is a song featured in Bombshell sung by Marilyn as she films Some Like It Hot. During the number the director and other members of the crew comment on how horrible her acting and dancing is.

Lyrics
Show Girls: When we're feeling down and low Then our favorite word is no 'Cause it points the way to go Let's be bad! Who knows what will come tomorrow? Neighbor, lose the sauce and sorrow Here's some sugar you can borrow Let's be bad!

Don't want to be boring Our twenties are roaring Let's punish the flooring Yeah, drummer man, do what you can Tonight the (whoo!) will hit the fan!

If you need some more enticing Here's a girl with twice the spicing We're the cake, but she's the icing! Let's be bad! Let's be bad!

Marilyn: If you say something is taboo Well, that's the thing I want to do Do it 'til we're black and blue Let's be bad!

Guns and gangsters suit me fine Al Capone is a buddy of mine He's my big-shot valentine Let's be bad!

If spirits are sagging If feet are 'a dragging Fall off of that wagon The piano hums to the bass and drums And I'll be dancing when Hoover comes

Don't care if you've tied the knot Most folks want what they ain't got Melt the ice, some like it hot Let's be bad!

Marilyn with Company: Here's my whistle, make it "whetter" Let me wear that Scarlet Letter

Marilyn: When I'm bad, I'm even better

Marilyn with Company: Let's be bad!

Say "bye-bye, propriety!" No polite society

Marilyn: Give me notoriety!

Marilyn with Company: Let's be bad!

Marilyn: Bring on the vices Don't care what the price is I'll add the right spices When the stand-up bass slaps you in the face Well, it ain't my husband I'll embrace

Marilyn with Company: I can't see the use in waiting Your lips are intoxicating

Marilyn: Do my hips need some translating?

Marilyn with Company: Let's be bad!

Marilyn: If I drown in bathtub gin Notify my next of kin They might grieve or might jump in

Marilyn with Company: Let's be bad!

Marilyn: Who wants plays and O'Neill dramas? Gershwin is the cat's pajamas I'm the queen of the red-hot mamas

Marilyn with Company: Let's be bad!

Each crook and G-man Each cop and He-Man

Marilyn: Just stick with me, man Every joint's a juke with my red-hot uke And just like Judas once said to Luke

Marilyn with Company: Here's the key for my ignition Hit the gas to my transmission

Marilyn (Company): When you hear the things I'm wishing You won't offer opposition Let's prohibit prohibition Let's! (Let's!) Be! (Be!) Ba-a-ad! (Bad!)

Marilyn: Some like it hot, and that ain't bad!