From Richard Barnett Sent Tue, Dec 9th 1997, 10:00
From Richard Barnett Sent Tue, Dec 9th 1997, 10:00
xxx@xxxxxx.xx.xx writes: > >> i just want to get some opinions on the new prodigy video for 'smack my > >>bitch up'. in case anyone hasn't seen it, it's basically shot from a > >>first person perspective and is a series of shots of women being fondled > >>and generally harrassed, with lots of clever vomiting footage. i'm just > >>wondering what meaning, if any, people find behind this video/song. is it > >>in fact mysogonist? Surely the (reasonably unexpected) twist at the end is an attempt to deflect the charges that the track incites males to violence against females? (I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen the whole thing.) I was surprised by the explicitness of the video -- but I didn't find it offensive. > Travelling down to the Blue Note last week, I noticed some Prodigy > flyposters on the walls which were black with just the word Prodigy in > white and somebody had spraypainted underneath all of em, "Smack my Keith > up!" And another poster in Parson's Green had been censored with a couple of licks of black paint to "my up". -- Richard