Video: Be Your Own Pet in the Studio

When we hung out with Be Your Own Pet at Lollapalooza last summer, lead singer and peroxide punk-rock vixen Jemina Pearl kept Thurston Moore -- her label's boss and the band's mentor -- on the edge of his seat recounting the plot of a gothic young-adult book she was reading. So what have Nashville's finest teenage thrash punks been doing since then? Getting their drivers licenses, touring with the Arctic Monkeys and working on the follow-up to last year's eponymous debut. Check out this exclusive video for an inside look at their yet-untitled sophomore album and what fuels their creativity (hot dog buns and candy, of course).

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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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