Adele Rekindles Friendship With Song-Inspiring Ex

Adele performing at the MTV Video Music Awards.

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Adele, who became one of the biggest successes in recent pop with brokenhearted songs about a former boyfriend, has renewed her friendship with her ex. "It's all right, I know what I'm doing," the British pop star said recently. "Enough time has gone by."

She still hasn't identified her old boyfriend, whose departure inspired "Rolling in the Deep," "Someone Like You" and much of the rest of Adele's breakout second album, 21.

"He changed my life, I can't deny that," the singer told the newspaper. "The album helped me get over splitting up with my boyfriend. It helped me forgive and I hope that he has forgiven himself."

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“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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