The 20 Most Controversial Songs Of All Time
Featuring Marilyn Manson, Eminem, Slayer and The Prodigy...
12. The Prodigy: 'Smack My Bitch Up' – To say the Braintree massive ruffled a few feathers with their 1997 single would be a massive understatement. Despite the band claiming the lyrics meant “doing anything intensely”, feminist groups including the National Organization For Women accused The Prodigy of misogyny and encouraging violence against women. Banned (somewhat predictably) by the BBC airwaves, the band also released a Jonas Akerlund directed video which was banned almost universally, creating massive publicity in the tabloid press. In 1998, The Beastie Boys even asked The Prodigy to refrain from performing it at Reading Festival because of its “offensive” lyrics. " />-
12. The Prodigy: 'Smack My Bitch Up' – To say the Braintree massive ruffled a few feathers with their 1997 single would be a massive understatement. Despite the band claiming the lyrics meant “doing anything intensely”, feminist groups including the National Organization For Women accused The Prodigy of misogyny and encouraging violence against women. Banned (somewhat predictably) by the BBC airwaves, the band also released a Jonas Akerlund directed video which was banned almost universally, creating massive publicity in the tabloid press. In 1998, The Beastie Boys even asked The Prodigy to refrain from performing it at Reading Festival because of its “offensive” lyrics.
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Necrophilia, drugs, murder, racism, Nazism, bestiality, sodomy, religious indoctrination and Satanism – just a handful of the controversial subjects touched upon in Gigwise's countdown of the 20 Most Controversial Songs Of All Time. Featuring Eminem, N.W.A., The Sex Pistols, Rage Against The Machine, Guns N' Roses, Prince and more, be warned some of it is definitely NSFW!
