The Prodigy
Smack My Bitch Up

THE REVIEW

I start 2016 in a state of excitement, as promised to my friend Battlegods, with a single comparable to a ticking time bomb.

Let me introduce you to the controversy made into a song. You remember the video, right?

Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, the latter is the most shameless, blunt, and toxic representation of the song’s mood. The film, in first person as if it were the eyes of a girl (spoiler!), reveals a wild night in London filled with excessive drinking, reckless driving, cocaine snorting, vandalism, nightclub brawls, sex, and nudity in general. The original version, later censored but still searchable, also featured heroin injections in a filthy bathroom, a complete lesbian sex scene, a hit-and-run incident, and rapes. The illegality made into a video.

The song is a swarm of shards to the face, with that violent and deep beat accompanied by the Rave sound that must be blasted, which finds repose in the traditional Indian singing of Shahin Badar’s angelic voice. A track capable of unleashing and making a really wide audience dance, from Punk to Metal.

It is followed by “No Man Army”, born from the collaboration with the genius named Tom Morello, which can be summed up by the addition “Big Beat + Rage Against The Machine,” characterized by the crazy filtered guitar fills of our Morello.

The single concludes with two remixes: “Mindfields (Headrock Dub)”, which is, as the title suggests, the Dub version of “Mindfields” without its distinctive sounds strongly influenced by oriental music, and “Smack My Bitch Up (DJ Hype Remix)”, where DJ Hype enjoys crafting his Drum 'n' Bass version of the track that gives the single its name.

Get wild yourselves, do a somersault every now and then.