Buttocks - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In 1966 Yoko Ono made a roughly 90 minute-long experimental film called No. 4, which is colloquially known as Bottoms. It consists of footage of human buttocks in motion while the person walks on a turntable.
• The 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap contained the song "Big Bottom" featuring the lyric Big bottom, big bottom, Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em, Big bottom drive me out of my mind, How could I leave this behind?
• Numerous songs have been released which glorify this body part. As early as 1961, the American Folk band The Limeliters recorded the song "Vicki Dougan", which pays a humorous tribute to the pin-up star who wore infamously low-cut, backless dresses. A risque song for the time, the lyrics mention her "callipygian cleft" by name. Other English language examples include:
  • "Bootylicious" by Destiny's Child
  • "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" by KC and the Sunshine Band
  • The 1978 singles "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Race" by Queen
  • "I See You Baby (Shakin' That Ass)" by Groove Armada
  • "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot (1992)
• Rolling Stone magazine named the 1990s the "Decade of the Butt" because many of these songs were released in that decade.
• "My Humps" (in the back as well as in the front) by The Black Eyed Peas
• "Big Bottom" by Spinal Tap
• In the United Kingdom there is an annual award given to the male and female winners of the celebrity voted to have the Rear of the Year for that year. Past Winners have included Sarah Lancashire and Jane Danson.
• In 2008, Hong Kong lifestyle retail store G.O.D. collaborated with Kee Wah Bakery to design mooncakes for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. They presented the traditional treats in the shape of bottoms in eight different designs, but still filled with traditional white lotus seed paste and salted yolks.