Ask a Rock Star: Panic at the Disco

Panic at the Disco stopped by Rolling Stone last week, and we bombarded them with questions sent in by you, the readers, to see what makes this young quartet tick. Click above for the band's favorite Beatles songs, what they sing in the shower and what inspired the tracks on their upcoming album Pretty.Odd.

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Song Stories

“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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