Roots will have music screened by NBC execs (BLOG)

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One of the real joys on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" has been the Roots' choices of jokey, thematically appropriate walk-in songs for Fallon's various celebrity guests: "Da Butt" for Serena Williams, "Hi Hater" for Bill Hader, that sort of thing. According to bandleader Questlove himself, the only song choice Fallon ever vetoed was "She Blinded Me With Science" for Katie Holmes.

But after the band played Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on with a cover of Fishbone's "Lyin' Ass B**ch," all that may change.

Though the song choice was intended to be something of an easter-egg inside joke (they didn't sing the lyrics or anything), news of it leaked out, as news does. Pretty soon, Bachmann was on Fox News complaining of misogyny, and NBC was apologizing.

And now, the New York Post shares a Rolling Stone report that Questlove will now have to share his song choices with three different NBC execs. At least they haven't lost their spot.

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