Bat for Lashes Talk "Insane" Set, Crazier Weather Backstage at Lolla

Bat for Lashes make broody, beautiful, atmospheric rock that has a flair for the dramatic, but the sounds coming from Natasha Khan and Co.'s instruments were nearly overshadowed by a nutty weather system that practically blew the band offstage in Chicago yesterday. "The set was insane," Khan tells Rolling Stone backstage at Lollapalooza, describing the stage as "a hundred million degrees." Watch some of Bat for Lashes' set and get the full interview, above.

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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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