Defend the indefensible: Still using the opening lines of 'Baby Got Back' in any way to be 'funny'.

I Like Big Butts (Official Music Video)

when I think of this song in terms of pop culture references I think of Bobby Hill on the arcade machine which I guess is better than Friends or Shrek rite

this has become the default 'lol we white' go to quoting rap music thing. i think using it on friends was the nadir of making the hilarious sir mix-a-lot seem unfunny.

Although I haven't seen it, it's my understanding that it hit an all new low in the movie Gigli, where it was recited by a white special-needs character to distract himself while Ben Affleck cuts a thumb off a corpse.

blimey

go hard or go home

http://www.vulture.com/2013/12/sir-mix-a-lot-baby-got-back-video-oral-history.html

Adam Bernstein (director, “Baby Got Back” video): Rick called me to see if I wanted to direct the video. When you had a meeting with Rick, he would arrive in his Rolls Royce, and you would get in and he would play whichever song really loud. Which is the way I heard “Baby Got Back” for the first time. I thought that the song objectified women, but it made me laugh, and I thought it would be fun. I had previously been offered the chance to direct an LL Cool J song, “Big Ole Butt,” but I didn’t do it. This time, I needed to get out of New York because I broke up with my girlfriend and she got the apartment. So doing this video was a matter of good timing — though I had done “Hey Ladies” for the Beastie Boys.

This man is my personal hero.

A comment to the article:

For those who wish to further understand Mix’s sophisticated point of view, please check out his subsequent video for “Put ‘em on the Glass”, which I declined to direct. Here the artist encourages women to bare their breasts and press them against car windows. Now that is real empowerment.

Adam Bernstein

Well, Mix-A-Lot is my personal hero. Bernstein sounds like he was just in the right place at the right time.

lol

Then I had a meeting with Mix-a-Lot to talk about the concept. He really wanted a giant ass in the video, and he wanted to be coming out of it. I suggested that maybe that wasn’t a great idea.

actually this whole piece is hilarious.