Rock on TV Preview: tUnE-yArDs Make Their Late Night Debut

Merrill Garbus

tUnE-yArDs will bring their unclassifiable brand of funky, folky, noisy art pop to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight. This will be the band's first appearance on a late night talk show, so it should be interesting to see how the commanding, wildly charismatic stage presence of frontwoman Merrill Garbus translates to the small screen. Going on the group's recent concerts, it seems like a fair bet that this end up being one of the more memorable and attention-grabbing late night debuts.

Tonight:
Pitbull - Conan, TBS 11:00 p.m.

Christina Perri - Late Show with David Letterman, CBS 11:35 p.m.

Colbie Caillat - Lopez Tonight, 12:00 a.m.

tUnE-yArDs - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC 12:35 p.m.

Tuesday Morning:
Deborah Gibson and Tiffany - The View, ABC 11:00 a.m.

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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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