Which, really, is where the story of Smack My Bitch Up just begins. Jonas had just directed one of the most contentious videos in music history. A video that outraged the moral majority on both sides of the pond. “And then of course there was all the controversy,” sighs Jonas.

1. The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land

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It was a couple of weeks after The Prodigy released ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ that the current leader of the Labour Party put his name to an Early Day Motion that passed across his desk.The motion called for parliament to “express its disgust and outrage at the advertising billboard campaign to promote a record album entitled Smack My Bitch Up; and urges the recording company to.”Jeremy Corbyn’s co-signatories that day were the current shadow chancellor John McDonnell, the current international development secretary Diane Abbott and Oona King, who is now Baroness King of Bow. Konica minolta sales configrator. To say that the third and final single from The Prodigy’s Fat Of The Land had caused a bit of a stir is something of an understatement. And it would not just be the left wing of the Labour party who were furious about it.The Prodigy were on a high in November 1997. The Fat Of The Land had been long awaited and, when it finally arrived in June of that year, had exploded.

A headline slot at Glastonbury had started the ball rolling for the band as they set about delivering the sorts of vicious beats, punk vocals and aggressive guitars that meant their music straddled both rock and dance. And everything they did seemed tinged with both success and controversy.The album’s first single, Firestarter, grabbed listeners by the throat. Its video, featuring a spike-haired Keith Flint screaming at the camera, caused such terror to Middle England that the Mail on Sunday howled: “Ban this sick fire record” while parliament debated whether it was likely to encourage its fans to go on arson sprees.But Firestarter was just the beginning. It was when people listened to The Fat Of The Land’s opener, Smack My Bitch Up, that the controversy really flared.

The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land

Immediately, its lyrics of “change the pitch up, smack my bitch up” caused issues.“I didn’t do that song to be deliberately controversial,” said Howlett. “But, once we started the ball rolling, it was definitely an opportunity to push the boundaries as much as we could. The original lyric was, ‘I smack my bitch up like a pimp’ from the Ultramagnetic MCs’ Give The Drummer Some. That line in their song always made me laugh because, within the realms of hip-hop, it had a comedy value to it because it’s so absurd.“It was tongue-in-cheek but I think we changed the meaning of it. We adopted the phrase as more of a fist-in the-air statement of, ‘Let’s fucking go!’ Then you get the trainspotters who jump on the literal meaning of the lyrics and get upset about it.”.