Kev wrote:
Iirc the version with the shooting up and hit and run incidents came to light a long time after SMBU video was first released, I'm guessing Åkerlund released that version himself.
Kev wrote:
You are still talking about the director's cut so The Prodigy edited video is the official version released by the *band.
*collective
Is this a guess too or based on facts?
"Music video
The promotional music video for "Smack My Bitch Up", directed by Swedish music video director Jonas Åkerlund depicts a night out in the city filmed from a first-person perspective, portraying drinking and driving, snorting cocaine, violence, vandalism, nudity and sex. The unedited version also includes a scene of heroin use and a hit and run incident. The protagonist takes a stripper (played by model Teresa May) home and has sex with her. As the stripper leaves with her things, the protagonist glances in the mirror, is revealed to be a woman, and passes out on the bed.
[edit] Controversy
"Smack My Bitch Up" was banned by the BBC and only a lyric-free version was played on Radio 1. On the chart rundown, other tracks from the single release were played, and the title "Smack My Bitch Up" was not mentioned. On BBC World Service radio chart run down it was mentioned as "Smack" and was not played. Yet on the first episode of Top of the Pops in which it charted, the DJ Hype remix was played over the Top 10 countdown, including the offending lyric of "Change my pitch up, Smack my bitch up."
The Chart Show refused to display the name of the song when the video was played during one of their episodes. Usually aired at 11.30am, the show displayed the on-screen graphic as simply "The Prodigy"; the title of the song would usually appear underneath.
The music video for "Smack My Bitch Up" drew fierce criticism for misogyny despite its ending, particularly from feminist groups such as the US National Organization for Women, accusing it of encouraging violence against women, despite the main protagonist being a woman. Others, however, praised the video because of the way it subverted politically correct stereotypes of domestic violence, showing that women are also abusers.[6] Though universally banned from television, massive demands on MTV eventually had them relent and show the video, but only after midnight and following an MTV News warning. In mid-2002, the full unedited version of this video was aired on MTV2 as part of a special countdown showing the most controversial videos ever to air on MTV. This countdown was only shown late at night because of the graphic imagery of "Smack My Bitch Up" and several other videos on the countdown, such as the video for Nine Inch Nails' "Closer". This video was at #1 on the countdown and therefore named the "Most Controversial Video" in MTV's history. Programming blocks in the United States containing the unedited video for "Smack My Bitch Up" automatically gained a rating of TV-MA-LSV (sometimes TV-M-DLSV).
Despite the controversy, the video would be nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards, and eventually won Best Dance Video and Breakthrough Video. 8 years later, the full version of the video was aired and voted #1 on New Zealand television show 'U Choose 40', screened on music channel C4 as part of their 'Most Shocking Videos' and 'Top 10 - That's Shocking!' (June 10, 2007) countdowns and voted #2 as part of the 'Banned In The USA!' countdown on August 24, 2007.
In 2010, the song was voted as the most controversial song of all time in a survey conducted by PRS for Music.[7]"
Wikipedia
I'm thinking it's a glitch with the new forum layout, I dunno. 
