That said, the butt has never shaken so vigorously in our collective face.
The question of the butts has been stuck in my craw since the latest MTV Music Video Awards last week.
You literally couldn’t miss the explosion of lady butts. They would not let you.
There were big butts, little butts, round butts, square butts, bouncing butts and butts that should have just stood quietly in the corner.
The cable network even compiled a list of its favorite butts that includes Jennifer Lopez's elegant butt and Taylor Swift's "negative" booty.
I am not a prude — really, I am not. Like you, I can appreciate a nice derriere. But why so much der and why so much riere? And what does this say about female sexuality?
If you want to make it, do you have to shake it?
There is a time and place for every rump shaker. That time and place shouldn’t be all the time and everywhere.
The butt is sadly overexposed.
Shaking it doesn’t even make a statement. It does not shock. It just… bores.
Celebrities are far from the only ones exposing the behind.
The butt selfie is a thing and “fitness motivator” Jen Selter is the queen of it.
Read: 5 things you need to know about butt selfies
Rapper Nicki Minaj’s newly released music video for “Anaconda” is just the latest example of pop culture making a mockery of the female badonkadonk.
The song is only sort of an update of Sir Mix A Lot's classic "Baby Got Back".
Baby got back, a 1992 ode to plump backsides that samples its beat from the 1986 Channel One techno song "Technicolor," features a line that gives Minaj's song its hook ("My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun"), but that and adoration of "big" ole butts is where the similarities end (pun intended).
Baby Got Back was controversial when it was first released, but is now thought of as pretty funny (“Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt”) and is a female anthem.
Little more than 20 years after its video was briefly banned from MTV, Baby Got Back is a wedding jam that draws woman to the floor as quickly as The Commodores' "Brick House." Sir Mix-A-Lot performed Baby Got Back with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in June. A herd of ladies took to the stage.
At the risk of sounding like a fuddy-duddy, I shudder at the thought that Minaji stripper-esque song ever being an anthem.
Her moves makes dance hall singer Patra's in 1995's "Pull Up to the Bumper" cover look like the Electric Slide.
Where Sir Mix A Lot was funny, Minaj is straight up NASTY.
Some might call this evolution. I call it icky.
I ‘d hate to see how the song is updated 20 years from now.
The way we are going it will just be a naked butt bouncing across the screen to the words “buns, hun.”
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