Will.I.Am Celebrates Obama Victory With New Song

With Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising" booming on the speakers, 100,000-plus in Chicago's Grant Park and millions others watching across the nation welcomed Barack Obama as their new President-Elect. While we'll all have to wait until the January inauguration to start feeling the effects of the Obama presidency, Will.I.Am hopes to keep the party atmosphere going until then with a new song called "It's A Good Day," a tune the Black Eyed Pea recorded last week and promised to release today if Obama won the presidency. This will be Will.I.Am's third pro-Obama song this year, following the star-studded "Yes We Can" and "We Are the Ones." Will.I.Am also popped up, in holographic form, during CNN's Election Night coverage. As for Obama's choice to use Springsteen's "The Rising" as his celebration song, it was a fitting choice, given the song's message for change and Springsteen's unwavering support of Obama. Obama and Springsteen appeared together last weekend in Ohio, the state that ultimately crushed John McCain's presidential chances by giving its electoral votes to Obama.

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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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