Scarlett Johansson and Debbie Harry Chat on MySpace

Actress-turned-singer Scarlett Johansson and singer-turned-actress Debbie Harry sit and chat View-style in a new Artist to Artist segment up now on MySpace. The two sip champagne in a recording studio while discussing subjects like meeting Peter Falk, making music in aquatic places and the 30th anniversary of Blondie's Parallel Lines (The songs are still "so totally modern and timeless," says Johansson.) Johansson only briefly mentions her album of Tom Waits covers, but maybe she's just there trying to get the inside track over Kirsten Dunst to play the role of Harry in that upcoming Blondie film.

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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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