Controversial music video

The Prodigy - Smack my b**** up

The music video for the Prodigy's "Smack my b**** up" is considered one of the most controversial of all time. Firstly the song itself is seen to promote domestic violence through its lyrics, which made the song itself controversial to transfer into video. The video itself depicts a person going out to a bar in which the person consumes alcohol and drugs as well as physical abuse, violence, vandalism and nudity. When it was released it was banned on most tv stations because of its controversy, which fit in with the song which was banned on many radio stations.

The video follows in first person a night out which starts slowly but quickly escalates into physical harassment of a woman, violence towards a bouncer and others as well as drug use and ends up with a full nude sex scene with a prostitute. In the final part of the video it is revealed that the person who the video has been following is a female, which was surprising because many presumed it was a man throughout because of the song.

The video was very controversial because of its content but was appreciated by a few because it raised awareness of domestic violence towards men which was a relatively unknown problem, so the controversial video had an upside.