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

We are a generation who needs get passed getting sprung.

i thought this was starting to go away but i saw john stewart do it on the daily show and enough is enough

how about using them as a statement of fact

the rest of the song is hilar but noo you are just reusing the bit you saw in shrek, which wasn't v. funny anyway.

i. This is always awesome
ii. This will never not be awesome iii. See pt i, also fu
iv. I'm white btw

how about using them as a statement of fact

― regal xenophobe (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 00:10 (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tis the point of the song already, no?

i can say 'i like big butts and i cannot lie' whenever the fu i want, this thread is dog shit

it's so round, it's like...out there

hang on are we talking about the spoken intro or the 'i like..' bit

talking abt

I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung

the spoken intro isnt really a pop culture meme.

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.

the spoken intro kind of is a pop culture meme!

Is it? I can only think of *eurgh* Drake using it in any way?

This has a massive bond to the whiney thread abt whyte people delivering rap music lyrics ~seriously~ or whatever but I couldn't remember the thread title

uhhhhhhhhhhh in 1997 maybe? rolling my damn eyes so hard. the only stupid thing about doing this is if ur not going to go the full mix-a-lot then gtfo

people who DON'T like big buts are indefensible IMO

the spoken intro isnt really a pop culture meme.

um...being someone that frequents karaoke bars far too often, yes...it is.

I can't generally go a week without hearing someone I know reciting the opening.

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The entire Mack Daddy album had these iambic quatrameter lines that make it both uniform and repetitive.

It dramatic when he breaks form, abandoning rhyme and dropping one "foot":
You can do side bends or situps,
But please don't lose that butt.

The spoken intro is now the standard "Valley Girl" voice more than any line from Fast Times or Valley Girl or "Valley Girl."

I still prefer this to white hipster college kids 'ironically' dropping the opening to Ice Ice Baby and looking around at everyone like they just did a magic trick

It dramatic when he breaks form
Abandoning rhyme and dropping one foot
You can do side bends or situps
But please don't lose that butt

xp dude they are looking around to see if everyone stopped.

i only use this factually

Yeah, don't people mostly just use this as a somewhat-humourous-but-still-factual statement, just like it's used in the original song? What's wrong with that? I think people of every colour are allowed to share Sir Mix-a-Lot's sentiment. There may be some other examples (usually related to gangsta rap) where white people cite rap lyrics to denigrate hip hop, or African American culture in general, but IMO this isn't one.

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.