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"Back to School (Mini Maggit)" is a song by American alternative metal band Deftones. It is an altered version of the song "Pink Maggit" from the band's 2000 album White Pony. Shortly after the album's initial release, in a contentious move by the band's label Maverick, it was re-released with "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" added on. The song's style has been described as nu metal[1][2][3] as well as rap rock.[4]

"Back to School (Mini Maggit)"
Single by Deftones
from the album White Pony (re-release)
Released	October 2000
Recorded	2000
Genre	Nu metal rap rock
Length	3:57
Label	Maverick
Songwriter(s)	Stephen Carpenter Chi Cheng Abe Cunningham Chino Moreno
Producer(s)	Terry Date
Deftones singles chronology
"Change (In the House of Flies)" (2000) "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" (2000) "Digital Bath" (2001)
Deftones chronology
White Pony (2000) Back to School (Mini Maggit) (2001) Deftones (2003)
Alternative cover
EP edition cover

"Back to School (Mini Maggit)" was released as both a single and as an EP package; the single was released shortly before the EP.

Background

Vocalist Chino Moreno has said, "This album right here [the White Pony re-release] is not the album that we turned in to the label. As far as we're concerned, the first edition was the record. Done. Then, they talked us into re-releasing it with another song on it, and it's not like I'm against the song or whatever, but I liked the sequence we had when we first turned it in. When this version came out, a little part inside all of us felt like: 'Fuck! We just totally compromised.' And I know that a lot of our fans felt bad about it too."[5]

The band also specifically regretted the presence of "Back to School" on the re-release of the album, as Moreno stated in an interview with German rock magazine Visions: "'Back to School' was a mistake. A calculated song, that had been built up with only one aim in mind: It should be a single. ... 'Back to School' was released because I was an idiot. I wanted to prove something [to the record company]. Months later, after White Pony was released, they wanted us to do a new version of "Pink Maggit". They said we lost our heaviness, and there were no more singles on the album. First, I wanted to stick this idea up my ass, but then I thought: 'I'm gonna show those fuckers how easy it is to create a hit-single.' And so I rapped a hip hop part on that song, we shortened it and half an hour later, the hit-single was ready to roll on."[6]

Track listing

Charts

Chart (2000−01)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts)[7]	51
Portugal (AFP)[8]	1
Scottish Albums (OCC)[9]	27
UK Albums (OCC)[10]	35
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[11]	3
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[12]	27
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[13]	35

References

На других языках

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- [en] Back to School (Mini Maggit)

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[es] Back to School (Mini Maggit)

«Back to School (Mini Maggit)» es un sencillo de la banda de metal alternativo Deftones. En realidad es una versión alterada y modificada con elementos rap de "Pink Maggit", canción que cierra el álbum White Pony. El álbum fue relanzado con la canción poco después del lanzamiento original del álbum, como estrategia comercial del sello discográfico de la banda. "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" fue lanzado tanto como sencillo como EP.

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[ru] Back to School (Mini Maggit)

«Back to School (Mini Maggit)» (с англ. — «Обратно в школу (Мелкий трёп)») — песня американской альтернативной метал группы Deftones, выпущенная как сингл 12 марта 2001 года на звукозаписывающем лейбле Maverick Records. Песня представляет собой альтернативную версию композиции «Pink Maggit» с альбома 2000 года White Pony. Вскоре после первоначального выпуска альбома, после долгих споров с лейблом, White Pony был переиздан с новой обложкой и включённым на первое место «Back to School (Mini Maggit)» в списке композиций альбома.

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