With her self-described "gangster Nancy Sinatra" look and crackedactress name, Lana Del Rey has a burnt mystique that's almost as striking as her debut single's torpid majesty. Del Rey (real name Lizzy Grant) stretches her sloshed-succubus pout over an orchestral track somewhere between Cat Power and Fiona Apple, as she evokes a jobless afternoon of cheap, lazy splendor: "Kissing in the blue dark/Playing pool and wild darts/Video games?" The beautifully washed-out video only adds to the air of aimless decadence.

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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.”