Bubble Butt

"Bubble Butt"
Single by Major Lazer featuring Bruno Mars, 2 Chainz, Tyga and Mystic
from the album Free the Universe
Released	May 24, 2013
Format	Digital download
Recorded	2012
Genre	EDM trap dirty rap
Length	3:47 (album version w/o 2 Chainz) 3:27 (single version w/ 2 Chainz)
Label	Downtown Mad Decent
Writer(s)	Thomas Pentz David Taylor Bruno Mars Michael Stevenson Mystic
Producer(s)	Major Lazer Valentino Khan
Certification	Gold (RIAA)
Major Lazer singles chronology
"Watch Out for This (Bumaye)" (2013) "Bubble Butt" (2013) "Scare Me" (2013)
Bruno Mars singles chronology "Treasure" (2013) "Bubble Butt" (2013) "Gorilla" (2013) Tyga singles chronology "For the Road" (2013) "Bubble Butt" (2013) "Show You" (2013) Mystic singles chronology "Bubble Butt" (2013) 2 Chainz singles chronology "HeadBand" (2013) "Bubble Butt (Remix)" (2013) "Feds Watching" (2013)

"Bubble Butt" is a song by electronic music project Major Lazer from their second studio album Free the Universe. It features guest appearances from American recording artists Bruno Mars, Tyga and Jamaican dancer and rapper Mystic Davis. The song became the fourth single from the album after a remix featuring American rapper 2 Chainz was released on May 24, 2013. "Bubble Butt" is Major Lazer's second most commercially successful single in the United States to date, peaking at number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Critical reception

PopMatters named "Bubble Butt" the ninth best dance single of 2013, calling it an "undeniably addictive song [which] had the desired effect of flooding dance floors everywhere this year."^[1]

Music video

The music video was directed by Eric Wareheim of the comedy team Tim & Eric.

In the video, it's late at night and three young women with blue hair are in their apartment listening to dolphin sounds and taking pictures on their phones when a flying giant woman with a big butt lands next to their apartment. After spotting the women, the giantess opens her mouth and hoses shoot out and slither into the apartment through the window. The women react in terror as the hoses poke into their butts and inflate them to ridiculous size. The walls of the apartment fall away to reveal the dance floor of a nightclub. The women then begin dancing with their new butts.

The giantess (referred to in the credits as "Buttzilla") blows bubbles that pop on the dance floor and release beautiful, large-butted women who begin dancing. The video from then starts to focus on three of the new women in two piece yellow outfits one in pigtails (who seems to be the leader), one in a ponytail, and one with short hair. There is also a woman hanging from the ceiling by ribbons performing acrobatic moves.

The new women dance throughout the majority of the video. At one point the acrobat woman explodes butt-first into confetti that rains down on the other women. The woman in pigtails continues leading the dancing, unaware that one of the giantess' hoses is coming up behind her. The hose wraps around her waist and violently yanks her off the dance floor. The dancer struggles in the grip of the hose as she is pulled into the giantess' mouth and eaten. After swallowing the woman alive Buttzilla flies away as the video ends.

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Chart (2013)	Peak position
scope="row"	Australia (ARIA)[2]	39
scope="row"	Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[3]	24
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders Urban)[3]	8
scope="row"	Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[4]	11
scope="row"	France (SNEP)[5]	67
Lebanon (The Official Lebanese Top 20)[6]	1
scope="row"	Netherlands (Single Top 100)[7]	65
Netherlands (Mega Dance Top 30)[8]	12
South Korea Download Chart (Gaon)[9]	1
scope="row"	UK Indie (Official Charts Company)[10]	27
scope="row"	UK R&B (Official Charts Company)[11]	27
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[12]	196
scope="row"	US Billboard Hot 100[13]	56
scope="row"	US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)[14]	8
scope="row"	US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[15]	39
scope="row"	US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[16]	17
scope="row"	US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)[17]	13
scope="row"	US Rhythmic (Billboard)[18]	13

Year-end

Chart (2013)	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders Urban)[19]	26

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[20]	Gold	500,000
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
France[21]	May 24, 2013	Digital download	Major Lazer Because
Ireland[22]	May 29, 2013		Alternative Distribution Alliance
United Kingdom[23]
Austria[24]	May 31, 2013		Because
Belgium[25]
Finland[26]
Germany[27]
Luxemburg[28]
Netherlands[29]
Norway[30]
Switzerland[31]
New Zealand[32]			Secretly Canadian
Portugal[33]	June 3, 2013		Because
Sweden[34]
Italy[35]	June 4, 2013
Spain[36]
Australia[37]	September 10, 2013		Secretly Canadian
Singapore[38]	October 4, 2013		Warner Singapore

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