Most people have had nights out like that, off their head on coke and drink… It's not to everyone's taste, but not everything we do is. Finally, after they have sex, a look in the mirror reveals the protagonist to have been a young, blonde woman as the song ends, she passes out on her bed.
Later, at a strip club, the protagonist drinks more alcohol while watching nude dancers, and eventually brings one stripper home to have sex. At a bar, the protagonist has several more drinks, sexually assaults multiple women, violently attacks several men, and destroys the DJ's equipment before running to the restroom to vomit and inject intravenous drugs, resulting in a shaky and disoriented vision. This character first showers and dresses, then drinks vodka and sniffs cocaine before going out. The video, filmed entirely in first-person perspective, depicts a drug-and-alcohol-fueled night out through the eyes of a mostly-unseen character, and utilizes different camera movements corresponding with the protagonist's altered state of mind. Music video ĭirector Jonas Åkerlund's music video for "Smack My Bitch Up" was rarely seen on television due to its controversial subject matter.
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 and "House of Rising Funk" by Afrique. Initially Liam Howlett used a direct sample of Chandra's song, but later had the vocal resung after sample clearance issues. Badar's vocals and harmonies are based on "Nana (The Dreaming)" performed by Sheila Chandra. The female vocals in "Smack My Bitch Up" were performed by Shahin Badar. Kool Keith had previously been sampled by the Prodigy in the track " Out of Space". 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". The lyrics "Change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up" are repeated through the whole song.
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The Jonny L remix was released through a free CD that came along with an issue of Muzik magazine, while the Slacker remix was never officially released, although it surfaced on a rare and limited set of white labels. Howlett chose the DJ Hype remix to be released on the single. 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. In 2010, the song was voted as the most controversial of all-time in a survey conducted by PRS for Music. The refrain, which consists only of the line "Change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up" was sampled from the song " Give the Drummer Some" by the Ultramagnetic MCs, and it also contains a brief medley of an unidentified female singer vocalising alap. The song caused considerable controversy because of its suggestive title and explicit music video, which depicted scenes of drunken and drug-fuelled sexual assault and violence.
In 2013, Mixmag readers voted it the third greatest dance track of all time. It was released in November 1997 as the third and final single from the album The Fat of the Land. " Smack My Bitch Up" is a song by English rave group the Prodigy. 1997 single by the Prodigy "Smack My Bitch Up"
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