![]() ![]() In 2020, ranked "Baby Got Back" number 24 in their list of the best Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 suggests that there are millions who agree with his assessment." James Bernard from Entertainment Weekly remarked that the song "alternates deftly between a critique of the Cosmo/ Playboy narrow-minded - and narrow-hipped - standard of female beauty and a bawdy appreciation of, er, generous rear ends." In Melody Maker's review of the album, "Baby Got Back" was named "worst of all" and "a hip hop "Fatty Bum Bum" and - Warning! Warning! - could be a novelty hit." Mark Coleman from Rolling Stone said the song "celebrates a section of the anatomy long revered by rappers ("beggin' for a piece of that bubble" is a new twist)." And the fact that 'Baby Got Back' spent five weeks at No. At root, 'Baby Got Back' challenges the dominant standard for physical beauty in our culture, a standard that stresses long legs, slim hips, small buttocks and has no room for women with wide hips or protuberant posteriors. On the surface, it may seem that all he's doing is expressing an opinion, but there's more to it than Mix-a-Lot's personal preferences. ![]() Considine from The Baltimore Sun commented, "In some cases, what's said can be as simple as Sir Mix-a-Lot's assertion 'I like big butts!' in the single 'Baby Got Back'. Cute rhymes and slammin' beats add up to a potential smash at several formats." J.D. Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "First offering from rapper's major-label debut, Mack Daddy, cheekily rhapsodizes about the joys of women with prominent backsides. In 2014, according to TMZ, Sir Mix-a-Lot says it was Jennifer Lopez's moves as a Fly Girl on the 90s show In Living Color that first inspired him to write "Baby Got Back". The dialogue of actress Papillon Soo Soo saying "Me so horny" is sampled from the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket to complete Sir Mix-a-Lot's lyric, "That butt you got makes." Sir Mix-a-Lot commented in a 1992 interview: "The song doesn't just say I like large butts, you know? The song is talking about women who damn near kill themselves to try to look like these beanpole models that you see in Vogue magazine." He explains that most women respond positively to the song's message, especially black women: "They all say, 'About time.'" 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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