Baby's Got a Temper

Infobox Single
Name = Baby's Got a Temper


Artist = The Prodigy
from Album =
Released = 1 July 2002
Format = 12 inch vinyl record
CD single
DVD single
Recorded = Essex, England
Genre = Electronica
Length = 4:24 Baby's Got a Temper (Main Mix)
Label = XL Recordings
Maverick Records
Writer = Liam Howlett
Keith Flint
Kieron Pepper
Tony Howlett
Producer = Liam Howlett
Video director = Traktor
Certification = "None"
Reviews = "N/A"
Last single = "Smack My Bitch Up"
(1997)
This single = "Baby's Got a Temper"
(2002)
Next single = "Girls"
(2004)

"Baby's Got a Temper" was the third EP released by the British electronic band The Prodigy on 1 July 2002. It was the band's first song in five years, following "Smack My Bitch Up" in 1997, and only their second that was not an album track. It was also their first release after dancer Leeroy Thornhill left the band in 2000.

The song sparked controversy because of the lyrics by Keith Flint, which heavily played upon the misuse of the drug rohypnol. "Baby's Got a Temper" was met with mostly negative reviews and some time later Liam Howlett himself disowned it. [http://www.nekozine.co.uk/liamtalks.html "Nekozine" online interview] on 17 December 2003 by Andrea Schnepf with Liam Howlett, published 7 January 2004. Retrieved 4 May 2007.]

The music video, directed by Traktor, was released as a DVD single that included a short 'making of' film. It featured three ordinary men, dressed in suits, who walk into a disused funfair. They enter a makeup room and transform themselves into the band members, Howlett, Flint, and Maxim. The group go onstage where they perform before a crowd consisting of cattle, which are milked by topless women. The milk is then sold to the public waiting outside, who eventually go crazy. The video was apparently based upon one of Howlett's dreams.

The single was initially released to support what was early stages of their then-to come album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. The album got reworked into what it is now and the song was binned. Because the single didn't fit any album, in 2008, the band's official website's discography classified it as an EP. [http://theprodigy.com/index.php/the-prodigy-eps EPs] on 11 March 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2008.]

Track listing

XL Recordings

12" vinyl record

:A1. "Baby's Got a Temper" (Main Mix) (4:24):A2. "Baby's Got a Temper" (Dub Mix) (5:28):B1. "Baby's Got a Temper" (Instrumental) (4:24):B2. "Baby's Got a Temper" (Acapella)

CD single

#"Baby's Got a Temper" (Main Mix) (4:24)
#"Baby's Got a Temper" (Dub Mix) (5:58)
#"Baby's Got a Temper" (Instrumental) (4:24)

DVD single

#"Baby's Got a Temper" (Main Mix) (4:24)
#"A Day At Work" (1:56)

Maverick Records CD single

#"Baby's Got a Temper" (Main Mix) (4:24)
#"Baby's Got a Temper" (Dub Mix) (5:28)
#"Baby's Got a Temper" (Instrumental) (4:23)
#"Baby's Got a Temper" (Acapella) (3:25)

Notes