Genocide wrote:Master Chief wrote:Eminem admitted himself that he was inspired by SSLP while making Relapse. Relapse is 0% like SSLP. When I say that I mean that Encore is more like SSLP than Relapse. The only similarity is the crazy subject matter...that's executed in a different manner.
While The Eminem Show is a personal, emotionally driven mature album. And Recovery is exactly that. Also take notice that I'm not comparing the quality of the albums.
I like Relapse a lot so I'm not saying that Relapse is a fail compared to SSLP. And though I really like Recovery, I'm not saying that it's on TES's level.
Nah.
Relapse = SSLP / MMLP in the sense that Em was going back to shock value, story telling and being funny. You can't deny that he achieved this, but he just felt that it got old fast so he changed it up with Recovery.
Recovery is personal, yeah, but so are the majority of his songs. Relapse had them too. Doesn't mean anything.
The Eminem Show has a feeling that Recovery doesn't.
Recovery doesn't feel like an Eminem album, it feels like Eminem hopping on a bunch of random beats, not a cohesive "show".
Don't get me wrong, I love Recovery, and am glad Em dropped the accents because they got stale hearing them too often on Relapse, but it's not like TES imo.
I forgot to say that (some) of the shock value on Relapse felt really forced and imo Relapse wasn't funny outside Hello & BFB. Relapse has what SSLP had but to a much lower extent which imo makes it a failed SSLP. But, of course Relapse has better aspects like the production and his flow.
Relapse had 2 personal songs which is really low for an Eminem album.
Recovery of course is not gonna be a carbon copy of the Eminem show so it's gonna feel different if not then that would be a problem. I agree with Recovery not feeling cohesive but if you look at it right then you'll see that Recovery has most of the characteristics TES had.
Eh, anyways I love Relapse & Recovery and I'm glad he's moving forward and always switching it up.