“Shakespeare Acoustic,” a teenybopper love plaint sung by Miranda Cosgrove on the iCarly Soundtrack II album, is currently streaming on AOL’s “Spinner” feature.
The original “Shakespeare” song is a couple years old, and appeared on Cosgrove’s solo album Sparks Fly. This acoustic version will be appropriate for pre-show music for intimate black box shows, as distinct from all those splashy High School Musicals.
The operative lyric in the song, regardless of electric or acoustic, is
Do you like Shakespeare? Jeff Buckley?
Watching movies on Sunday?
Do you like kissing when it’s raining?
Making faces in the station?
Do you like, I need to know
What do you like? before you go, oh oh
Nice of them to give the Bard of Avon top billing over Jeff Buckley.