Still, controversy sells music and it was the second best selling song in the US in 1992. At one point, the music video was banned on MTV. Nowadays the song is blasted so liberally, but the 90s were a very different time and the song was controversial because of its objectifying lyrics. “Baby Got Back” is one of the great one hit wonders of the 90s. Ben De La Creme’s campy lip-sync makes it even funnier. As a big RuPaul’s Drag Race fan, I suggest you watch the lip-sync for your legacy: Ben De La Creme vs Aja. Talking about how big someone’s butt is, is a meme. The now commonly used word, simp, is even used in the song.
It even influenced our slang from the “Oh my god Becky, look at her butt” and “My anaconda don’t want none”, which was used in Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda”, a raunchy music video that was a total meme back in 2014. Overall an iconic song that has stuck with us even almost 30 years later. So we take the bad with the good and fully embrace the meme aspect.” We like the attention, so even though it’s a bit of a goof, it usually centres around our song ‘All Star’ and it still sells weekly like mad. “But we have never taken ourselves that seriously. “It’s funny because a large percentage of our fans don’t even know what a meme is - heck, we didn’t really know either at first,” Delisle admitted. Music critics loved it.Īs for what Smash Mouth thought of becoming a meme band with a meme song, here’s what bassist Paul Delisle said in an interview with Inverse titled Smash Mouth: We ‘fully embrace the meme’: It was nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group at the Grammys in 2000. The song has a sound similar to Sugar Ray and Third Eye Blind.
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Actually, it was in the 1999 superhero movie Mystery Men. Shrek wasn’t the first movie to use the song in a soundtrack. It was one of the last songs written for Smash Mouth’s album Astro Lounge. Guitarist Greg Camp wrote this meme anthem for weirdos after the record company asked for more songs that could be released as singles and it was released in 1999. They have other popular songs like “Walkin’ on the Sun”, “Then The Morning Comes”, and their cover of The Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” – which was also featured in Shrek.
Smash Mouth were formed in San Jose, California in 1994. I could spend all day listing all the YouTube poops based on Shrek and this song, but you get the point.
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