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“Firestarter”—The Prodigy

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Are These Super Smart Guys Just Being Provocative?

Wishis: 19 97's music had to be masculine and edgy. He says they were trying to sell it as a rock band, not dance music. Wishis thinks the prodigy made so many deliberately bad or wilfully upsetting decisions. The song smack my bitch up is one of his most offensive songs he has ever heard.

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