“Baby Got Back” is an oddity. There are tons of older songs that still get played for their kitch value. For example: ANY New Kids on the Block Song; “You Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer; and of course, “Ice, Ice Baby.”
What’s odd about “Baby Got Back” is that unlike NKOTB people actually seem to still like the song. When it’s randomly played at a club or wedding reception or someone tries to do a horrible karaoke rendition, the cheers seem to be genuine. The kitch is still very much a factor but nobody seems to have anything really bad to say about the song.
Am I wrong about this song? If I’m not are there any other songs that people listen to for the kitch without actually despising it. And hell, if you DO have something negative to say about Sir Mixalot’s opus, let’s hear it.
Couldn’t agree more. Love this CD. And love this song, for all the reasons stated above.
But how is this song any different from any other solid “oldie” - ouch, it hurts to say that!
There are a ton of 80’s songs that stand up that way. Jeez, look at **(That’s) What I Like About You by the Romantics ** - it was a minor hit in back in the day, but how many different commercials have used that song - it was even used as the title of a sitcom, and I seem to remember hearing a rockier version of it in a movie commercial recently. But it is more than a nostalgic song - it’s great! It holds up and still sounds current. It was used in that Lindsey Lohan/JLCurtis remake of Freaky Friday - so now when my band plays at events that involve kids (sometimes we play nightclubs; sometimes we play Last Day of School gigs at our kids’ elementary school - such is the life of a mid-life crisis band) all the kids sing along with all the lyrics…
Nah, white women love that song. They also love “I Will Survive”, which was already mentioned. They love Sir-Mix-A-Lot for the cheese factor, they love Gloria Gaynor because they all “identify” with the song’s lyrics.
Then they do the white girl dance, which is one finger up in the air and everything else doing some miscellaneous dance.
Least Original User Name Ever, you forgot to mention “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” I have an unashamed, abiding love for all three–fun lyrics and, man, can you dance to them.
I agree too. Except ‘Ice Ice Baby,’ ‘U Can’t Touch This’ and ‘Parents Just Don’t Understand’ seem to be enjoyed more for their nostalgic kitsch. I recently re-discovered ‘Things That Make You Go Hmm,’ and that is one great party song. So is ‘I Got a Man.’ Well, shoot, that whole album is pretty tits!
Hate that song. Hate that other song played for kitsch value “Paradise By the Dashboard Lights” which was requested repeatedly at my wedding and which Brainiac4 had to explain to the DJ “no, I’m writing the check…if that song gets played, I won’t get sex on my honeymoon and I won’t write you a check.”
It probably isn’t “just you.” But its certainly “not me.”
I do like Love Shack, which gets played at all events of “persons my age” for its kitsch value.
Baby Got Back is my cell’s oh-so-amusing ringtone when I’m not at work.
And inevitably, a few months ago I forgot to change it back to the worksafe one, and it rang on a train when I was sitting working away in my suit, surrounded by other quietly working businesspeople in their suits. As I ran out of the carriage in embarrassment, I was happy to notice that most of them were breaking their holes laughing at me.
The rhymes are mad solid, after all. “baby I wanna get wit’chaaa, and take your pit’chaaa”, is possibly one of the best pickup lines ever uttered in a rap song.
Love the dig at my girl in the video, it’s cute. Personally I liked her body back then, but lately I find her too thin.