I like big butts and I cannot lie...
September 1, 2015 10:29 AM Subscribe
Give me all your songs in celebration of a lady's derrière. Fat or fit, refined or crude -- it's all good, but the more elegant and respectful, the better.
The gold standard here is Mya's "My love is like Wo." Some of the reasons this is the gold standard: It is a woman who is bragging about herself; the video has a woman shaking her butt and even smacks her own butt at one point; the song is an ode to the lady first and foremost. Yes, she considers her booty to be one of her finest assets, but it isn't objectifying, if that distinction makes sense.
I think Eminem's "Ass like that" is funny as hell, but it doesn't quite hit the note I am looking for. It is on the rude, crude, socially unacceptable side of that line. I am poor white trash, so that works for me. But imagine the target audience is a very refined gentleman who will lose his boner over any implication he is being disrespectful while he checks out your ass.
I also welcome ass-slapping, ass-groping music videos for songs not specifically about the booty, such as Barenaked Ladies
One Week. Preferably romantic in tone or about a relationship, as that one is.
Thank you!
The gold standard here is Mya's "My love is like Wo." Some of the reasons this is the gold standard: It is a woman who is bragging about herself; the video has a woman shaking her butt and even smacks her own butt at one point; the song is an ode to the lady first and foremost. Yes, she considers her booty to be one of her finest assets, but it isn't objectifying, if that distinction makes sense.
I think Eminem's "Ass like that" is funny as hell, but it doesn't quite hit the note I am looking for. It is on the rude, crude, socially unacceptable side of that line. I am poor white trash, so that works for me. But imagine the target audience is a very refined gentleman who will lose his boner over any implication he is being disrespectful while he checks out your ass.
I also welcome ass-slapping, ass-groping music videos for songs not specifically about the booty, such as Barenaked Ladies
One Week. Preferably romantic in tone or about a relationship, as that one is.
Thank you!
Best answer: Bootilicious by Destiny's Child
posted by tracicle at 10:34 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by tracicle at 10:34 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Spinal Tap perfected this song genre.
posted by deathpanels at 10:35 AM on September 1, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by deathpanels at 10:35 AM on September 1, 2015 [4 favorites]
Best answer: I....don't see it mentioned anywhere, so Baby Got Back.
posted by General Malaise at 10:42 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by General Malaise at 10:42 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Feels obvious, but Megan Traynor: All About The Bass
posted by straw at 10:44 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by straw at 10:44 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor
posted by bilabial at 10:44 AM on September 1, 2015
posted by bilabial at 10:44 AM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: There's an official AskMe "Butts" playlist on Spotify, related to this question.
posted by acidic at 10:44 AM on September 1, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by acidic at 10:44 AM on September 1, 2015 [3 favorites]
Best answer: VH1's "15 Greatest Songs about Butts"
VH1's "20 More Amazing Songs About Butts"
Stylecaster's "25 Best Songs About Butts"
and on a side note, my Google search history now contains the phrase "songs about butts."
posted by erst at 10:45 AM on September 1, 2015 [4 favorites]
VH1's "20 More Amazing Songs About Butts"
Stylecaster's "25 Best Songs About Butts"
and on a side note, my Google search history now contains the phrase "songs about butts."
posted by erst at 10:45 AM on September 1, 2015 [4 favorites]
Best answer: "It Must Be Jelly (‘Cause Jam Don’t Shake Like That)" by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.
posted by demiurge at 10:46 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by demiurge at 10:46 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: You'd probably enjoy the Monster Booty compilation.
posted by Metroid Baby at 10:52 AM on September 1, 2015
posted by Metroid Baby at 10:52 AM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: The surprisingly catchy song, Da Butt. I sing it to my dog all the time. "Lucy got a big ole butt, oh yeah?"
posted by Elly Vortex at 11:06 AM on September 1, 2015
posted by Elly Vortex at 11:06 AM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: Boogie in your butt! - Eddie Murphy
And of course, Samwell feat. Josh Homme What what in the butt
posted by Existential Dread at 11:30 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
And of course, Samwell feat. Josh Homme What what in the butt
posted by Existential Dread at 11:30 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Fanny by the Asylum Street Spankers.
posted by adamrice at 11:40 AM on September 1, 2015
posted by adamrice at 11:40 AM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: A little unconventional, but there was a song about butts on an episode of Bob's Burgers.
posted by alligatorman at 11:42 AM on September 1, 2015
posted by alligatorman at 11:42 AM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: Novelty song (played on the Dr. Demento show): Everybody Wants My Fanny.
posted by Melismata at 11:46 AM on September 1, 2015
posted by Melismata at 11:46 AM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: Mos Def, Miss Fat Booty.
posted by entropone at 11:49 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by entropone at 11:49 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Shake Ya Ass [YouTube, original, uncut version], by Mystikal, but I am not sure it meets the elegant and respectful request. Certainly NSFW. [Lyrics]
posted by terrapin at 12:32 PM on September 1, 2015
posted by terrapin at 12:32 PM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: Just learned from the lyrics link that Pharrell is listed a songwriter for Shake Ya Ass. Hmm. The more you know.
posted by terrapin at 12:35 PM on September 1, 2015
posted by terrapin at 12:35 PM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: Amy Schumer - Milk Milk Lemonade
posted by nologo at 12:43 PM on September 1, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by nologo at 12:43 PM on September 1, 2015 [3 favorites]
Best answer: Culo - Pitbull and Lil Wayne.
Culo means ass in spanish, with varying degrees of crassness depending on country/region.
posted by toxic at 12:57 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Culo means ass in spanish, with varying degrees of crassness depending on country/region.
posted by toxic at 12:57 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Not exactly what you're looking for, but in the ballpark, so to speak, Little Red Corvette. (cover)
(I love Prince—first saw him ~1980—but I'm always embarrassed for him when I hear this god-awful song.)
posted by she's not there at 1:03 PM on September 1, 2015
(I love Prince—first saw him ~1980—but I'm always embarrassed for him when I hear this god-awful song.)
posted by she's not there at 1:03 PM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: Brain fart. It's Pitbull and Lil Jon, not Lil Wayne.
posted by toxic at 1:03 PM on September 1, 2015
posted by toxic at 1:03 PM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: *Pitbull and John Wayne.
posted by entropone at 1:29 PM on September 1, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by entropone at 1:29 PM on September 1, 2015 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Jonathon Coulton's acoustic cover of Baby Got Back is super more tasteful. Come on.
posted by Syllables at 1:50 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Syllables at 1:50 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: "Castanets" by Alejandro Escovedo (also known as "I like her better when she walks away.")
Apropos of nothing: I saw someone make the comment recently that "Oh my god Becky, look at her butt!" passes the Bechdel test, which makes me happy for some reason I can't articulate.
posted by jbickers at 1:59 PM on September 1, 2015 [4 favorites]
Apropos of nothing: I saw someone make the comment recently that "Oh my god Becky, look at her butt!" passes the Bechdel test, which makes me happy for some reason I can't articulate.
posted by jbickers at 1:59 PM on September 1, 2015 [4 favorites]
Best answer: Well, if covers of Baby Got Back count, I am partial to the Gilbert and Sullivan version.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 2:10 PM on September 1, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Pater Aletheias at 2:10 PM on September 1, 2015 [4 favorites]
Best answer: Some country-pop: Honky Tonk Badonkadonk by Trace Adkins. "Lord have mercy, how'd she even get them britches on?"
It's... pretty far from respectable. Can't be seen from respectable, in fact.
posted by Sunburnt at 2:29 PM on September 1, 2015 [7 favorites]
It's... pretty far from respectable. Can't be seen from respectable, in fact.
posted by Sunburnt at 2:29 PM on September 1, 2015 [7 favorites]
Best answer: Sorry, I noticed at least one of my suggestions is already on the lists erst suggested.
posted by terrapin at 2:36 PM on September 1, 2015
posted by terrapin at 2:36 PM on September 1, 2015
Response by poster: Sunburnt, thank you for the hilarious description. I was actually hoping for more of that sort of annotation with songs: "Here is my attempt at a respectable submission to your list. But there is also this other awesome song for list, however it cannot see respectable from here."
I am best answering it for that reason alone and I have no idea what the sing is.
posted by Michele in California at 2:49 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
I am best answering it for that reason alone and I have no idea what the sing is.
posted by Michele in California at 2:49 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: It's pretty nearly the opposite of refined, but it's the apex of bootie music--or anyway it's an apex of bootie music. It's canon. It's essential. It's about so much more than some one person's respectable butt; it's about everybody's butt; it's about liberation for all butts, everywhere.
Freedia.
Freedia.
Freedia owns this genre.
That's what it's about, though: inspiring people to want to live out on a limb and do something different and be, you know, go outside the box of what they normally do, you know what I'm saying, like... That's what it's about.
posted by Don Pepino at 3:06 PM on September 1, 2015 [3 favorites]
Freedia.
Freedia.
Freedia owns this genre.
That's what it's about, though: inspiring people to want to live out on a limb and do something different and be, you know, go outside the box of what they normally do, you know what I'm saying, like... That's what it's about.
posted by Don Pepino at 3:06 PM on September 1, 2015 [3 favorites]
Best answer: If you like the My Humps suggestion but want tasteful, you must check out Alanis Morissette's cover version of that song!
Maybe Feelin' On Yo Booty by R Kelly. It's more like a love ballad with a chorus about feeling on a woman's booty.
Pull Over by Trina is trashy, but the chorus is literally "pull over, that ass too fat" and she raps about her butt the whole time.
That Mya song isn't really about her ass, although she does say "My ass is like whoa" in it. Maybe you'd like Body Party by Ciara? "My body, it's a party."
posted by AppleTurnover at 3:20 PM on September 1, 2015
Maybe Feelin' On Yo Booty by R Kelly. It's more like a love ballad with a chorus about feeling on a woman's booty.
Pull Over by Trina is trashy, but the chorus is literally "pull over, that ass too fat" and she raps about her butt the whole time.
That Mya song isn't really about her ass, although she does say "My ass is like whoa" in it. Maybe you'd like Body Party by Ciara? "My body, it's a party."
posted by AppleTurnover at 3:20 PM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: Tim Cavanagh - I Wanna Kiss Her
posted by Confess, Fletch at 3:27 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Confess, Fletch at 3:27 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: My favourite: Taj Mahal - Big Legged Mamas Are Back In Style
posted by cpdavy at 3:59 PM on September 1, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by cpdavy at 3:59 PM on September 1, 2015 [2 favorites]
Best answer: If Fat Bottomed Girls isn't a best answer, I submit that this is a bogus question.
posted by bricoleur at 4:58 PM on September 1, 2015
posted by bricoleur at 4:58 PM on September 1, 2015
Best answer: "Queen B" by Puscifer.
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:37 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:37 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Refined, sure. But maybe not quite the celebration of the female rear you were looking for? Mozart's Canon in B flat for 6 voices Leck mich im Arsch ("Lick me in the arse").
And another vote for Fat Bottomed Girls
posted by rux at 8:16 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
And another vote for Fat Bottomed Girls
posted by rux at 8:16 PM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Missy Elliott really seems to enjoy her body in Work It. (That seems to be a radio edit, so you can find one where she refers to her ass rather than her tail, if you prefer.)
posted by salvia at 10:29 PM on September 1, 2015
posted by salvia at 10:29 PM on September 1, 2015
Response by poster: This is not a bogus question. I accept your challenge and have thus marked everything as best answer. I will let it be my problem to sort out which songs best hit the spot, likely a lengthy and tedious process.
Also: ermagahd! That song is called Tush??? All these years, I thought they were looking for a little touch. Mind: Blown.
Thanks all!
posted by Michele in California at 10:47 AM on September 3, 2015
Also: ermagahd! That song is called Tush??? All these years, I thought they were looking for a little touch. Mind: Blown.
Thanks all!
posted by Michele in California at 10:47 AM on September 3, 2015
Response by poster: I am crazy busy, so only ever so slowly getting to this, but a couple of early winners are My Humps by The Black-eyed Peas and All About That Bass, which is an incredibly fun song and video. Bonus points: Both have a multicultural bent.
posted by Michele in California at 10:27 AM on November 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Michele in California at 10:27 AM on November 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Still slowly going through these. Really enjoying the original "Baby got back" and still getting a huge kick out of "All about that bass" which was a new song to me. It is all kinds of wonderful. Thanks to the folks who suggested that.
Will note that "Milk, Milk, Lemonade" is the real place from which respectful cannot even be seen. Compared to that, "Honkytonk badonkadonk" is good clean country fun. MML is also wonderfully catchy, leaving me with mixed feelings about having watched it and it will likely be hard to forget. :-p
posted by Michele in California at 4:05 PM on November 13, 2015
Will note that "Milk, Milk, Lemonade" is the real place from which respectful cannot even be seen. Compared to that, "Honkytonk badonkadonk" is good clean country fun. MML is also wonderfully catchy, leaving me with mixed feelings about having watched it and it will likely be hard to forget. :-p
posted by Michele in California at 4:05 PM on November 13, 2015
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