momentsgolden wrote:As much as i hate to do so, i completely agree with Eminembase about Eminem not visiting the themes of MMLP. Now, Eminem HIMSELF described it as "rage and youthful exuberance". Of the 4 songs he has released so far, Berzerk tries to go for the "youthful exuberance" through taking the soul of a young hip-hop culture symbolized by the beastie boys and their "party" persona. I think he failed (it sounds a mess) other people think he succeeded. That is a matter of opinion but at least we see what he was trying to do.
Rap God had VERY good elements of rage. Of actually responding to "rapping like a robot, making pop music, hating women" etc with character and personality. The song has its flaws but its spirit is totally consistent with MMLP. It fits the "rage" he feels and through sarcasm, dark humour, witty statements he responds to all that in an interesting way.
The monster and survival have neither rage nor exuberance. They have no fun. No anger. No personality. No discernible desire to provoke a reaction. They are just.... Bland and generic. Now, as much as i like them as songs, for him to place them on the MMLP2? C'mon. Thats just.... Disrespectful to the original classic.
True that.
"Berzerk" and "Rap God" both actually feel unique...
At first I was happy he took so long with this mysterious new album, but now I'm worried that he did, because I think it will be the album's downfall... hence why you have "Survival" and "The Monster - which, as much as plenty of people want to keep saying they don't, continue to get compared to and 'feel' more like Recovery tracks than anything else.
If he had just released "Berzerk" and "Rap God", we'd be good to go. "Berzerk" is a nice lead-single; meh 2nd verse but unique and original vibe, love the throwback theme; the look and feel, everything about it could be MMLP2 and it's pretty fucking tight.
"Rap God" is vicious, his sarcasm is there; his wit, his self-mockery, his hip-hop name-dropping, it really does feel related to MMLP more than anything else, and it's excellent.
But he hasn't got the balls to just continue on down that lane now, he has to then go "ehh... oh, what if they don't like it though? We need a few surefire ones from the last formula" and we're getting 2010-11-esque mindset and style Eminem thoughts and music creeping in, and these songs, which I fear "Headlights" will be another... I fear will fuck the album.