'The Voice' Judges Will Return for Season 2

Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera

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All four judges on NBC's new hit singing competition The Voice are set to sign on for its second season later this year. In an interview with Billboard, Cee Lo Green says that it's a "safe assumption" that he, Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine will return to the series. "I'll be there, that's for sure," the singer said.

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Green told Billboard that while he finds working on The Voice "very gratifying," his commitment to the show – as well as his touring plans for the summer, which includes opening up for Rihanna's arena tour and playing a number of major festivals – has made it "increasingly difficult" to focus on making new music.

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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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