7:25 PM PDT, June 18, 2014
This year marks the 13th anniversary of Destiny Child's hit single Bootylicious. In honor of the record becoming a teenager, we've compiled 13 things you didn't know about the song.
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'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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This year marks the 13th anniversary of Destiny Child's hit single Bootylicious. In honor of the record becoming a teenager, we've compiled 13 things you didn't know about the song.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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The word "bootylicious" was added to The Oxford Dictionary.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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Earlier this year Aretha Franklin threatened to remake the song in a cover album, but was quickly rebuffed by Beyonce fans.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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Stevie Nicks agreed to be in the video after a chance meeting with the girls at 30 Rockefeller when Destiny's Child was appearing on SNL and Stevie was promoting her album Trouble In Shangri-La on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
Destiny's Child performed this song at halftime of Game 4 of the 2001 NBA Finals between the Lakers and Sixers. The girls, who wore Lakers and Sixers attire for the performance, were booed by the Philadelphia crowd.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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The word bootylicious actually pre-dates the song, as it was first used in the media on A Different World in 1993.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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Rockwilder and Missy Elliott did a remixed version of the song, which was used for the Carmen soundtrack.
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The line "I don't think you're ready for this jelly" originated as a joke by Beyonce, but the rest of the group encouraged her to put it in the song.
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Destiny's Child performed the song at two Michael Jackson tribute concerts at Madison Square Garden in September 2001.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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They used the guitar riff from Stevie Nicks' Edge of Seventeen, because Beyonce reportedly thought that it sounded like a voluptuous woman.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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The song was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in 2001.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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It is the last song by a girl group to top the U.S. charts.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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It was the second single from Destiny's Child's third album, Survivor.
'Bootylicious' Turns 13
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VH1 ranked the song at No. 19 on its list of The 100 Greatest Songs of the 2000s.