No. 9 The Prodigy – “Smack My Bitch Up”
The Prodigy released in 1997 its album “Fat of the Land”. The song “Smack My Bitch Up” instantly gained popularity, putting the band on every newspaper’s headlines. This song evoked drug use, sex, vandalism and violence, told from a first-person view; that of a young woman. The song was rapidly banned by the BBC and other television broadcasts. Yet, its popularity led MTV to allow its broadcasting, but only after midnight and following an MTV News warning.
