Baby's Got a Temper

by

The Prodigy

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This is Prodigy's first release of new music since 1997's Fat of the Land (they released a DJ mix album, Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1, in 1999, which is good.)

Baby's Got a Temper has a slow, drugged-out kind of beat. Not slow in a dragging or boring way, just drugged-out. The whole song sounds pretty trippy.

The track has lots of little sounds and quirky noises, which sound pretty cool. Keith is doing the vocal delivery, and does pretty well. There's a little electronic loop that sounds like a scary nursery rhyme.

This song mainly just lacks the force and driving energy that a lot of Prodigy songs are known for. However, that is not to say it's bad. It's just different.

It's not really one of my favorite Prodigy songs, but I was really happy it came out, and I look forward to their new album, currently titled Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned.

p.s. - Liam Howlett, the main man of the Prodigy, has himself stated that Baby's Got a Temper sounds more like something off of the Fat of the Land album. This song is not necessarily attempting to break new ground. He also admitted, more recently, that the release of the single was due to the record company. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though.

I've heard some of the material from the new album, and it sounds pretty good. Also, Liam has stated that Baby's Got a Temper may not even be on the new album. And, according to Liam, at least another single is planned to be released before the album is.

BGAT is a nice bangin' track and it's got a great video. But that is pretty much everything nice to be said about this single. The track sounds exactly as if taken off The Fat of the Land (which is not what Liam intended); the dub remix is plain simple and repetative (in comparison to Any other Prodigy track). The instrumental version is completely useless as the lyrics are so few. The acapella version is not simply not worth listening to, it is trully rediculous (having an acapella version of track that has 3 lines of lyrics, predominately non-sense, is hilarious). The video is not included, which makes the single even less desireable. Liam Howlett himself said in an interview that he hates this track, that they released it under pressure from XL Recordings and that it won't be on the forthcoming album. It think that sums it put the best. Recommended only to Prodigy fanatics.