4/20/2024 0 Comments Girls with flat butts![]() ![]() Mix and Dorsey sought to "broaden the definition of beauty." They decided to dedicate a song to the opposite, featuring curvy women of color. The idea came from a 1980s-era Budweiser commercial featuring very thin, Valley girl-esque models with different skin colors. ![]() ![]() The song came from a meeting between Sir Mix-a-Lot and Amylia Dorsey, who saw little representation of full-figured women in media. Cause silicone parts are made for toys." and "So Cosmo says you're fat. The second and third verse challenge mainstream norms of beauty: "I ain't talkin' 'bout Playboy. The first verse begins with "I like big butts and I cannot lie" and most of the song is about the rapper's attraction to women with large buttocks. She's just so black!", at which point Sir Mix-a-Lot begins rapping. One girl (dubbed Linda by Amylia Dorsey) remarks to her friend, "Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt! It is so big. In the song's prelude there is a conversation between two (presumably) thin, white Valley girls, similar to girl talk in Frank Zappa's " Valley Girl". In 2008, it was ranked number 17 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop". "Baby Got Back" was the second best-selling song in the US in 1992. The single spent five weeks at the top of the chart. It debuted at number 75 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on April 11 and hit number one twelve weeks later. Mix-a-lot defended the song as being empowering to curvaceous women who were being shown skinny models as an ideal for beauty. The song's accompanying music video was briefly banned by MTV. At the time of its original release, the song caused controversy because of its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics objectifying women, as well as specific references to the buttocks, which some people found objectionable. Released in May 1992 as the second single from his third album, Mack Daddy, the song samples the 1986 Detroit techno single "Technicolor" by Channel One. ![]() " Baby Got Back" is a song written, co-produced and recorded by American rapper and songwriter Sir Mix-a-Lot. ![]()
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