Backstreet Boys, NKOTB to Tour Together

Call it the Boy-Band Hall of Fame Reunion Tour: New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys will be hitting the road together next summer.

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All nine band members will get together this Monday for an interview with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, who made the announcement about the tour on his KIIS-FM radio show and Facebook page Wednesday. The first opportunity to see the bands performing together will be later this month at the American Music Awards, airing on ABC November 21.

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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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