Smack My Bitch Up - Muziek
Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy
The Prodigy
Biografie van de kunstenaar The Prodigy
The Prodigy Is An English Electronic Dance Music Band From Braintree Essex Formed In 1990 By Keyboardist And Songwriter Liam Howlett. The Line-Up Of The Band Has Included MC And Vocalist Maxim Dancer And Vocalist Keith Flint Until His Death In March 2019 Dancer And Live Keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill Who Left To Pursue A Solo Career In 1999 And Dancer And Vocalist Sharky 1990-1991 . Along With The Chemical Brothers And Fatboy Slim The Prodigy Are Credited As Pioneers Of The Breakbeat-Influenced Genre Big Beat Which Achieved Mainstream Popularity In The 1990s. Howlett's Rock Inspired Drum Rhythms Infused With Electronic Rave Music Beats/breaks Were Combined With Maxim's Omnipresent Mystique Thornhill's Shuffle Dancing Style And Flint's Modern Punk Appearance. The Prodigy First Emerged In The Underground Rave Scene In The Early 1990s And Achieved Popularity And Worldwide Recognition With UK Number One Singles Such As "Firestarter" And "Breathe" Both Singles Coming From Their UK And US Chart Topping Album The Fat Of The Land 1997 . A Third Single From The Album “Smack My Bitch Up” Was Also Successful. They Earned Titles Like "the Premiere Dance Act For The Alternative Masses" And "the Godfathers Of Rave" And Remain One Of The Most Successful Electronic Acts Of All Time. They Have Sold An Estimated 25 Million Records Worldwide And Won Numerous Music Awards During Their Career Including Two Brit Awards For Best British Dance Act Three MTV Video Music Awards Two Kerrang! Awards Five MTV Europe Music Awards And Received Two Grammy Award Nominations. The Prodigy Were Founded In Braintree Essex In 1990 By Keyboardist And Songwriter Liam Howlett. He Had Taken Piano Lessons In His Youth And Gained The Ability To Play Difficult Passages In Just A Few Run-Throughs. After He Decided To Pursue A Music Career Howlett Met Dancer And Vocalist Keith Flint In Mid-1989 At A Rave At Which Howlett Was DJing. After Flint Requested Howlett Make A Mix Tape For Him Howlett Obliged Returning A Cassette Several Days Later With A Collection Of His Own Songs On The Other Side. Howlett Had Scratched The Word "Prodigy" Onto The Cassette The Same Name As The Moog Prodigy Analogue Synthesiser And Howlett's Moniker. The Tape Was Well-Received By Flint And Keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill Who Developed New Dance Sequences To The Music And Suggested To Howlett They Begin A Group Together. They Were Soon Joined By MC And Vocalist Maxim Then Known As Maxim Reality And Female Dancer And Vocalist Sharky A Friend Of Flint's. Together They Became The First Line-Up Of The Prodigy. On 4 March 2019 Keith Flint Was Found Dead At His Home In Essex Just Weeks After Playing Six Live Dates In Australia And New Zealand. On 5 March The Band Announced On Twitter That "all Forthcoming Concerts In 2019 Would Be Canceled Effective Immediately". Following Flint's Death Fans Began Using The Twitter Hashtag "Firestarter4Number1" On Various Social Media Platforms To Get "Firestarter" To Top The British Singles Charts Again. This Was Done Out Of Respect For Keith Flint And To Raise Awareness Of Suicide Among Men. On 20 August 2019 One Day Before His 48th Birthday Liam Howlett Posted On The Band's Official Instagram Page Saying He Is "back In The Studio Making Noise ... Brand New Prodigy Tunes Are Gonna Roll" Referring To His Intention To Keep On Releasing Music Under The Prodigy Moniker. Along With The Chemical Brothers And Fatboy Slim The Prodigy Have Been Credited As Pioneers Of The Big Beat Genre Which Achieved Mainstream Popularity In The 1990s. The Prodigy However Is Not Considered Entirely Representative Of The Genre As Their Production "often Reflected The More Intelligent Edge Of Trip-Hop And Rarely Broke Into The Mindless Arena Of True Big Beat" According To AllMusic. The Prodigy Are Also Considered Alternative Dance Techno Electronica Breakbeat Hardcore And Rave. Liam Howlett Cited Early Electro As A Big Influence Mentioning Tunes Like "Clear" By American Music Group Cybotron And "Al Naafiysh" By Hashim. Liam Howlett Also Cited The Bomb Squad Public Enemy And Rage Against The Machine As Influences.
Frogtoon Muziek - Nummerinformatie: Smack My Bitch Up
The-Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
"Smack My Bitch Up" Was The Twelfth Single Released By The British Big Beat Band The Prodigy On November 17 1997. It Was The Third And Final Single From The Album The Fat Of The Land. The Song Was Highly Controversial Because Its Lyrics Title And Music Video Were Believed To Promote Using Of Heroin. The Phrase "Smack My Bitch Up" Translates To "Request Another To Inject You With Heroin Or Get You High. The Phrase Does Not Mean To Hit Your Girlfriend Nor Does It Advocate Violence Toward Women As It Literally Implies. "Bitch" Being Slang For The Main Vein Running Down Your Arm In Which Heroin Is Usually Injected. "Smack" Is Slang For The Drug Heroin. Put Them Together And You Get "Smack My Bitch Up" In Other Words To Inject Heroin Into Your Main Vein In Your Arm. The Lyrics "Change My Pitch Up / Smack My Bitch Up" Are Repeated Through The Whole Song As Can Be Heard In The Sample Below. The Band Defended The Song Saying That The Lyrics Were Being Misinterpreted As Misogynistic And The Song Actually Meant "...Doing Anything Intensely..." The Song Led To A Publicised Disagreement At The 1998 Reading Festival After The Beastie Boys Asked The Group Not To Play The Track. The Vocals Are Sampled And Altered From The Ultramagnetic MCs Song "Give The Drummer Some". The Original Lyrics Performed By Rapper Kool Keith Are "Switch Up Change My Pitch Up / Smack My Bitch Up Like A Pimp". Keith Had Previously Been Sampled By The Prodigy In The Track "Out Of Space". The Female Vocals In "Smack My Bitch Up" Were Performed By Shahin Badar. The Track Also Contains Samples From "Funky Man" By Kool & The Gang "In Memory Of" By Randy Weston "Bulls On Parade" By Rage Against The Machine "House Of Rising Funk" By Afrique And "Nana - The Dreaming" By Sheila Chandra Prior To The Release Of The Single Liam Howlett Was Presented With Three Remixes Of The Title Song One By Jonny L One By DJ Hype And One By Slacker. Eventually Howlett Chose The DJ Hype Remix To Be Released On The Single. The Jonny L Remix Was Released Through A Free CD That Came Along With The January Issue Of Muzik Magazine In 1998 While The Slacker Remix Was Never Officially Released Although It Surfaced On A Rare And Limited Set Of White Labels. The Song Was Banned By The BBC And Only A Lyric-Free Version Was Played On Radio 1. On The Chart Rundown Other Tracks From The Single Release Were Played And The Title "Smack My Bitch Up" Was Not Mentioned. On BBC World Service Radio Chart Run Down It Was Mentioned As "Smack" And Was Not Played. Yet On The First Episode Of Top Of The Pops In Which It Charted The DJ Hype Remix Was Played Over The Top 10 Countdown Including The Offending Lyric Of "Change My Pitch Up Smack My Bitch Up." Richard Cheese And Lounge Against The Machine Covered This Song On His 2000 Album Lounge Against The Machine. This Is The Song Where He Introduces The Whole Band. The Song Appears In The 2000 Film Charlie's Angels However The Song Is Not On The Film's Soundtrack. It Also Appears In The 2001 Film Scary Movie 2 In The Scene That Spoofs The Charlie's Angels' Scene That Uses This Song. The Song "No Man Army" Appears On The Single And Is A Slightly Different Instrumental Version Of "One Man Army" A Song Which Howlett Created Together With Guitarist Tom Morello From Rage Against The Machine And Audioslave For The Soundtrack To The Movie Spawn. The Song Is Used In The Mike Nichols Film Closer And The First Episode Of The BBC Three Series Being Human. However It Is Not Included On The DVD Release Due To Copyright Issues. The Promotional Music Video For "Smack My Bitch Up" Directed By Swede Jonas Åkerlund Depicts A Night Out In The City Filmed From A First-Person Perspective Portraying Drinking And Driving Snorting Cocaine Violence Vandalism Nudity And Sex. The Unedited Version Also Includes A Scene Of Heroin Use And A Hit And Run Incident. The Protagonist Takes A Stripper Played By Model Teresa May Home And Has Sex With Her. As The Stripper Leaves With Her Stuff The Protagonist Glances In The Mirror Is Revealed To Be A Woman And Passes Out On The Bed. The Video Drew Fierce Criticism For Misogyny Despite Its Ending Particularly From Feminist Groups Such As The National Organization For Women Accusing It Of Encouraging Violence Against Women. Others However Praised The Video Because Of The Way It Subverted Politically Correct Stereotypes Of Domestic Violence Showing That Women Are Also Abusers. Though Universally Banned From Television Massive Demands On MTV Eventually Had Them Relent And Show The Video But Only After Midnight And Following An MTV News Warning. In Mid-2002 The Full Unedited Version Of This Video Was Aired On MTV2 As Part Of A Special Countdown Showing The Most Controversial Videos Ever To Air On MTV. This Countdown Was Only Shown Late At Night Because Of The Graphic Imagery Of "Smack My Bitch Up" And Several Other Videos On The Countdown. This Video Was At #1 On The Countdown And Therefore Named The "Most Controversial Video" In MTV's History. Programming Blocks In The United States Containing The Unedited Video For "Smack My Bitch Up" Automatically Gained A Rating Of TV-MA-SLV Previously TV-M-DSLV . Despite The Controversy The Video Would Be Nominated For Four MTV Video Music Awards And Eventually Win Best Dance Video And Breakthrough Video. In 2006 The Full Version Of This Video Was Aired And Voted #1 On New Zealand Television Show 'U Choose 40' Screened On Music Channel C4 As Part Of Their 'Most Shocking Videos' And 'Top 10 - That's Shocking!' June 10 2007 Countdowns And Voted #2 As Part Of The 'Banned In The USA!' Countdown On August 24 2007. The Controversy Surrounding The Single Didn't Prevent "Smack My Bitch Up" From Being A Massive Worldwide Hit. The Song Reached The Top 15 In Several Countries For Example Canada New Zealand Norway And Sweden. The Song Performed Best In Finland Securing The Prodigy Their Third Finnish Number-One Hit Alongside Firestarter And Breathe. Although Not Reaching The Top 20 In Those Countries "Smack My Bitch Up" Was A Hit In The Netherlands Peaking At #22 In Australia Reaching #41 And In The United States Reaching #89.
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The Prodigy Is An English Electronic Dance Music Band From Braintree Essex Formed In 1990 By Keyboardist And Songwriter Liam Howlett. The Line-Up Of The Band Has Included MC And Vocalist Maxim Dancer And Vocalist Keith Flint Until His Death In March 2019 Dancer And Live Keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill Who Left To Pursue A Solo Career In 1999 And Dancer And Vocalist Sharky 1990-1991 . Along With The Chemical Brothers And Fatboy Slim The Prodigy Are Credited As Pioneers Of The Breakbeat-Influenced Genre Big Beat Which Achieved Mainstream Popularity In The 1990s. Howlett's Rock Inspired Drum Rhythms Infused With Electronic Rave Music Beats/breaks Were Combined With Maxim's Omnipresent Mystique Thornhill's Shuffle Dancing Style And Flint's Modern Punk Appearance. The Prodigy First Emerged In The Underground Rave Scene In The Early 1990s And Achieved Popularity And Worldwide Recognition With UK Number One Singles Such As "Firestarter" And "Breathe" Both Singles Coming From Their UK And US Chart Topping Album The Fat Of The Land 1997 . A Third Single From The Album “Smack My Bitch Up” Was Also Successful. They Earned Titles Like "the Premiere Dance Act For The Alternative Masses" And "the Godfathers Of Rave" And Remain One Of The Most Successful Electronic Acts Of All Time. They Have Sold An Estimated 25 Million Records Worldwide And Won Numerous Music Awards During Their Career Including Two Brit Awards For Best British Dance Act Three MTV Video Music Awards Two Kerrang! Awards Five MTV Europe Music Awards And Received Two Grammy Award Nominations. The Prodigy Were Founded In Braintree Essex In 1990 By Keyboardist And Songwriter Liam Howlett. He Had Taken Piano Lessons In His Youth And Gained The Ability To Play Difficult Passages In Just A Few Run-Throughs. After He Decided To Pursue A Music Career Howlett Met Dancer And Vocalist Keith Flint In Mid-1989 At A Rave At Which Howlett Was DJing. After Flint Requested Howlett Make A Mix Tape For Him Howlett Obliged Returning A Cassette Several Days Later With A Collection Of His Own Songs On The Other Side. Howlett Had Scratched The Word "Prodigy" Onto The Cassette The Same Name As The Moog Prodigy Analogue Synthesiser And Howlett's Moniker. The Tape Was Well-Received By Flint And Keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill Who Developed New Dance Sequences To The Music And Suggested To Howlett They Begin A Group Together. They Were Soon Joined By MC And Vocalist Maxim Then Known As Maxim Reality And Female Dancer And Vocalist Sharky A Friend Of Flint's. Together They Became The First Line-Up Of The Prodigy. On 4 March 2019 Keith Flint Was Found Dead At His Home In Essex Just Weeks After Playing Six Live Dates In Australia And New Zealand. On 5 March The Band Announced On Twitter That "all Forthcoming Concerts In 2019 Would Be Canceled Effective Immediately". Following Flint's Death Fans Began Using The Twitter Hashtag "Firestarter4Number1" On Various Social Media Platforms To Get "Firestarter" To Top The British Singles Charts Again. This Was Done Out Of Respect For Keith Flint And To Raise Awareness Of Suicide Among Men. On 20 August 2019 One Day Before His 48th Birthday Liam Howlett Posted On The Band's Official Instagram Page Saying He Is "back In The Studio Making Noise ... Brand New Prodigy Tunes Are Gonna Roll" Referring To His Intention To Keep On Releasing Music Under The Prodigy Moniker. Along With The Chemical Brothers And Fatboy Slim The Prodigy Have Been Credited As Pioneers Of The Big Beat Genre Which Achieved Mainstream Popularity In The 1990s. The Prodigy However Is Not Considered Entirely Representative Of The Genre As Their Production "often Reflected The More Intelligent Edge Of Trip-Hop And Rarely Broke Into The Mindless Arena Of True Big Beat" According To AllMusic. The Prodigy Are Also Considered Alternative Dance Techno Electronica Breakbeat Hardcore And Rave. Liam Howlett Cited Early Electro As A Big Influence Mentioning Tunes Like "Clear" By American Music Group Cybotron And "Al Naafiysh" By Hashim. Liam Howlett Also Cited The Bomb Squad Public Enemy And Rage Against The Machine As Influences.
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"Smack My Bitch Up" was the twelfth single released by the British big beat band The Prodigy on November 17, 1997. It was the third and final single from the album The Fat of the Land. The song was highly controversial because its lyrics, title and music video were believed to promote using of heroin. The phrase "Smack my bitch up" translates to: "Request another to inject you with Heroin or get you high. The phrase does not mean to hit your girlfriend, nor does it advocate violence toward women as it literally implies. "Bitch" being slang for the main vein running down your arm in which heroin is usually injected.
"Smack" is slang for the drug heroin. Put them together and you get "Smack my bitch up", in other words to inject heroin into your main vein in your arm.
The lyrics "Change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up" are repeated through the whole song, as can be heard in the sample below. The band defended the song, saying that the lyrics were being misinterpreted as misogynistic and the song actually meant "...doing anything intensely..." The song led to a publicised disagreement at the 1998 Reading festival after the Beastie Boys asked the group not to play the track. The vocals are sampled and altered from the Ultramagnetic MCs song "Give the Drummer Some". The original lyrics, performed by rapper Kool Keith, are: "Switch up change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up like a pimp". Keith had previously been sampled by the Prodigy in the track "Out of Space". The female vocals in "Smack My Bitch Up" were performed by Shahin Badar.
The track also contains samples from "Funky Man" by Kool & the Gang; "In Memory Of" by Randy Weston; "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine; "House of Rising Funk" by Afrique and "Nana - The Dreaming" by Sheila Chandra
Prior to the release of the single Liam Howlett was presented with three remixes of the title song, one by Jonny L, one by DJ Hype and one by Slacker. Eventually, Howlett chose the DJ Hype remix to be released on the single. The Jonny L remix was released through a free CD that came along with the January issue of Muzik magazine in 1998, while the Slacker remix was never officially released, although it surfaced on a rare and limited set of white labels.
The song was banned by the BBC and only a lyric-free version was played on Radio 1. On the chart rundown, other tracks from the single release were played, and the title "Smack My Bitch Up" was not mentioned. On BBC World Service radio chart run down it was mentioned as "Smack" and was not played. Yet on the first episode of Top of the Pops in which it charted, the DJ Hype remix was played over the Top 10 countdown, including the offending lyric of "Change my pitch up, Smack my bitch up."
Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this song on his 2000 album Lounge Against the Machine. This is the song where he introduces the whole band.
The song appears in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels, however the song is not on the film's soundtrack. It also appears in the 2001 film Scary Movie 2, in the scene that spoofs the Charlie's Angels' scene that uses this song.
The song "No Man Army" appears on the single and is a slightly different instrumental version of "One Man Army", a song which Howlett created together with guitarist Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave for the soundtrack to the movie Spawn.
The song is used in the Mike Nichols film Closer and the first episode of the BBC Three series Being Human. However, it is not included on the DVD release due to copyright issues.
The promotional music video for "Smack My Bitch Up", directed by Swede Jonas Åkerlund depicts a night out in the city filmed from a first-person perspective, portraying drinking and driving, snorting cocaine, violence, vandalism, nudity and sex. The unedited version also includes a scene of heroin use and a hit and run incident. The protagonist takes a stripper (played by model Teresa May) home and has sex with her. As the stripper leaves with her stuff, the protagonist glances in the mirror, is revealed to be a woman, and passes out on the bed.
The video drew fierce criticism for misogyny despite its ending, particularly from feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, accusing it of encouraging violence against women. Others, however, praised the video because of the way it subverted politically correct stereotypes of domestic violence, showing that women are also abusers. Though universally banned from television, massive demands on MTV eventually had them relent and show the video, but only after midnight and following an MTV News warning. In mid-2002, the full unedited version of this video was aired on MTV2 as part of a special countdown showing the most controversial videos ever to air on MTV. This countdown was only shown late at night because of the graphic imagery of "Smack My Bitch Up" and several other videos on the countdown. This video was at #1 on the countdown and therefore named the "Most Controversial Video" in MTV's history. Programming blocks in the United States containing the unedited video for "Smack My Bitch Up" automatically gained a rating of TV-MA-SLV (previously TV-M-DSLV).
Despite the controversy, the video would be nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards, and eventually win Best Dance Video and Breakthrough Video.
In 2006 the full version of this video was aired and voted #1 on New Zealand television show 'U Choose 40', screened on music channel C4 as part of their 'Most Shocking Videos' and 'Top 10 - That's Shocking!' (June 10, 2007) countdowns and voted #2 as part of the 'Banned In The USA!' countdown on August 24, 2007.
The controversy surrounding the single didn't prevent "Smack My Bitch Up" from being a massive worldwide hit. The song reached the top 15 in several countries, for example Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. The song performed best in Finland, securing The Prodigy their third Finnish number-one hit alongside Firestarter and Breathe. Although not reaching the top 20 in those countries, "Smack My Bitch Up" was a hit in the Netherlands peaking at #22, in Australia reaching #41, and in the United States reaching #89. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.