| "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" | ||||
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| Single by Deftones | ||||
| from the album White Pony (re-release) | ||||
| Released | October 2000 | |||
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| Length | 3:57 | |||
| Label | Maverick | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Terry Date | |||
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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] as well as rap rock. [3]
"Back to School (Mini Maggit)" was released as both a single and as an EP package;the single was released shortly before the EP.
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." [4]
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." [5]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" | 3:57 |
| 2. | "Nosebleed" (live) | 4:21 |
| 3. | "Teething" (live) | 3:10 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" | 3:57 |
| 2. | "Feiticeira" (live) | 3:10 |
| 3. | "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" (live) | 3:57 |
| 4. | "Nosebleed" (live) | 4:21 |
| 5. | "Teething" (live) | 3:10 |
| 6. | "Change (In the House of Flies)" (acoustic) | 4:59 |
| 7. | "Pink Maggit" | 7:32 |
| 8. | "White Pony EPK" (short version) | 8:35 |
| Chart (2000−01) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA) [6] | 51 |
| Portugal (AFP) [7] | 1 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [8] | 27 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [9] | 35 |
| UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [10] | 3 |
| US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [11] | 27 |
| US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [12] | 35 |