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TIL after musician Jonathan Coulton had his cover of “Baby Got Back” stolen for the TV series Glee, he rereleased his cover with the description “cover of Glee’s cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s song, which is to say it’s EXACTLY THE SAME as my original version”.

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