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Moby renewed hostilities against The Prodigy this week in a wider critique against misogyny in pop music, following the jailing of Eminen copycat killer Christopher Duncan.
“A few years ago when The Prodigy released ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ I spoke up and criticised the song for being overtly misogynystic and irresponsible. I was in turn criticised on radio for ‘being too uptight’ and not being relaxed enough to appreciate the ‘humour’ in misogyny,” the New York producer wrote on his website Moby.com.
“And now we find out that a British man who is obsessed with Eminem killed a woman with a metal baseball bat and stuffed her body into a suitcase. Am I being ‘too uptight’ for not seeing the humour in this?”
21year old Londoner Duncan, who had the same tattoos, image and hair colour as the Detroit rapper, picked up Jagdip Najran,26, in a karaoke bar where he’d been performing Eminem songs, murdered her in his Hackney flat. Sentencing him to a minimum 25 years, Judge David Paget warned he might never be released telling him ‘You treat women as sexual objects and have a sadistic sexual fantasy life’.
“One doctor who examined you says you are a grandiose self centred individual with a high opinion of your looks, musical abilities and sexual prowess,” said the Judge.
Moby also attacked the media declaring ‘homophobia and misogyny are disgusting and vile and represent the worst and most atavistic elements of the human spirit.’
“Any employee of a record company or journalist or radio programmer or MTV employee who has promoted and celebrated misogynystic or homophobic music should be ashamed. You have blood on your hands, and you should be deeply, deeply troubled at the culture that you’ve helped to create,” he added.
