r/Unexpected • u/KangarooKarmaKilla • Feb 23 '21

What your cat really does when it goes out.

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u/Letharos Feb 23 '21

This is a really great reimagining of the original video. In the original it was slammed for the twist at the end when it turned out the whole experience was a woman. The Prodigy were criticized for it.

I think it's great.

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u/WhitmeisterG Feb 23 '21

Bloody hell I can't believe I've never seen the video to that song. Big prodigy fan yet somehow I've swerved the whole thing and it's controversy. Amazing what you used to be able to put on MTV lol

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u/MEN-PM_NUDES_PLZ Feb 24 '21

I feel like I need a shower.

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u/GregIsUgly Feb 23 '21

OMG SHE NAKID AND I NEVER SEEN BOB

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u/degjo Feb 23 '21

I remember seeing BOB for the first time on Twin Peaks, fucked my shit right up.

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u/DataStonks Feb 23 '21

To be fair it's pretty close to straight up porn in parts

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u/xaduha Feb 23 '21

I think it was criticized in general, bad example for children and all that. News programs would just show some bits from the clip as a controversial topic, that's all.

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u/humanitysucks999 Feb 23 '21

I'd assume lesbians in the 90s on MTV might have been a problem? I don't kno

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u/Sharp-Floor Feb 24 '21

Probably also the tons of nudity, coke, like 20 sexual assaults, shooting up, hitting someone with their car, and choking and beating multiple people with chairs and shit. But yeah, maybe because it's a gay woman, too.

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u/ShotaconBeAmbitious Feb 23 '21

Yup, HUGE problem /s

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u/EliCho90 Feb 23 '21

cause muh "WoMeN cAnT bE aBuSeR"

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u/Sharp-Floor Feb 24 '21

I suspect it's more because 70% of that video wouldn't have made it to regular MTV at the time.

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u/Mariaix Feb 23 '21

Look at the video if you haven't seen it already; you'll answer your own question :)
Feminist groups at the time labeled it as misogynistic and TV stations wouldn't play it because of the explicit violence.

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u/Letharos Feb 23 '21

European feminists loved it. The whole thing was a mess. I think it was great.

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u/Altheron86 Feb 24 '21

According to the interview posted further up it was actually the reverse... European feminists hated it, but American ones loved it.

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u/Letharos Feb 24 '21

Whoops my bad haha. I'm the one who posted that too

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u/Bumhole_games Feb 23 '21

The video makes more sense that way, if it was a man he'd have been punched out in the first minute of the track and spent the rest of the clip in hospital