What's up with the Christopher Reeves Shit???

[momentisgolden]

he knows alot of whats happening around. Jessica Simpson getting fat, Lindsay being lesbian,

In other words, the important events in the world.

Interesting how you quote the second paragraph and totally ignore the Sarah Palin part...
And before that its written "besides the politics"

[pHiLLip fARkLe]

I never really laughed at the Christopher Reeves lines, but the Mike J. Fox lines were hilarious. "It'll make Michael J. Fox come to a stand still"

ahhahha hell yea i laughed my ass off at that line... michael j fox will come to a stand still... during an earthquake.. ahahahah

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Thia thread would have been more relevant had it been made during Relapse. He mentions Chris Reeves for a BRIEF second in On Fire. Then we don't hear anymore about him

[xRas]

I would love to see you in your briefs you kinky little bastard


whatwhatwhat

[IVIrIVIurphY]

Roll up on you like Christopher Reeves

legend yall need tae get the sand out of ur vaginas

[Cam_24]

ugh what is it with you people always going badshit crazy when someone offends disabled people?! There I said it.

You mean bat shit crazy?

[NicoleEM]

I always saw these Christopher Reeves mentions as jokes rather related to his Superman character then him as a person in a wheelchair
PS:Did Christopher ever said anything about these verses on Em's songs?

[Oby One]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1LWikHmSQ

0:48

[kiki]

ugh what is it with you people always going badshit crazy when someone offends disabled people?! There I said it.

You mean bat shit crazy?

You got it Mr. Smartypants!



You don't happen to have to say anything about the content huh? Keep spamming.

[danny-mcf]

Roll up on you like Christopher Reeves

is tht drake?

[Wreck]

Roll up on you like Christopher Reeves

is tht drake?

Yes. And that pic is epic.

[Wreck]

dude he was talkin about reeves since the slim shady lp, and it just became part of his formula, muych like the Mariah Carey thing, exept i do believe him and Mariah got a past

Even if he had a line or two on SSLP, MMLP & TES he went ape shit with CR references on Encore, and then he continued it extensively in Relapse as well.

[Wreck]

I don't like it either. I never did. Mocking disabled people is never funny, especially after they've past away.

Christopher Reeve and Michael J. Fox jokes are just fucked up and not funny at all.

It's childish.

God forbid, if a horrible accident were to happen to Eminem or his daughter and somebody would think it's funny to make fun of it. I'm sure Em wouldn't like that.

I guess the bullied has become a bully.

Exactly! This is what I mean. Don't get me wrong, the references in Medicine Ball were hilarious and some of the other shit he played around with it, but I think it's fucked up still.

And I totally agree with the Michael J. Fox thing too. Where the fuck did that come from? I'm a huge MJF fan so when I heard that shit on Recovery I was like uhhh wtf. He should refrain from talking about him on the next D12 album & solo album .

[Wreck]

^^ Man, those Michael J. Fox lines always make me laugh. I'm not actually laughing at his disability, but at the fact that someone out there has the balls to go out and say it and not give a fuck. This goes for the Christopher Reeves lines.

No one would expect an artist to make fun of a paraplegic - which is the exact reason why Em does it. You think if Reeves hadn't been paralyzed, Em would've still gone at him? Probably not.

I don't know, I just don't find it funny at all. I can see how other people can find it funny but it just seems so tasteless to me.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for shock value but I just think there's a certain line that you're not supposed to cross but I guess that doesn't apply to Eminem's music.

"Their's a certain line that you don't cross & he crossed it. I heard him say Hailie's name in a song so I just lost it. The shit is crazy, way beyond some Jay-Z and Nas shit."

[Wreck]

He started doing it because of the paradox of him being Superman and now being disabled.

He often delights in direct contradictions / paradoxes which he can emphasize. It's pretty much the mojo of his artistic sting. Just like his performance with Elton John. A supposed homophobe performing with one of the biggest, self-celebrated homosexuals in the Entertainment industry.

Another example is "Love the Way You Lie". Plenty of people just see Rihanna's name and think he's a sell-out but fail to see the real reason. A song about domestic violence, with RIHANNA singing the chorus, again - An obvious paradox.

More proof that regardless of how big he gets, he keeps the same artistic integrity in place.

With the Christopher Reeves thing though he just keeps doing it to push it so far beyond a joke that it becomes redundant to even call it beyond a joke. He likes just exhausting things until it's surreal. Also why it's not truly offensive, as he's just playing an anarchist, it's almost unrealistic, it's in-character and there's structure to it.

Unlike somebody like Bizarre who just says the things to say them, and there's nothing to it.

Very good post & point, but I still think it is offensive. Same with the Michael J. Fox shit and maybe if he dissed MJ obviously now after he's dead that would be distasteful too.