Do you feel the promotion misguided you?

[Kill You]

I don't even want the songs to all sound the same, boring album.

[sneakerheadshady]

I had the opposite effect. I had 0 hope for the album until I heard it, now it's an all-time favorite along with MMLP/TES for me

setting your expectations low is usually a win-wim

[Elision]

I had the opposite effect. I had 0 hope for the album until I heard it, now it's an all-time favorite along with MMLP/TES for me

setting your expectations low is usually a win-wim

wasn't my intent though, i'm typically excited for new em projects but this one i just wasn't. rap god excluded everything we had heard in the last 2 years or so was shit, i had almost no faith at all. but by the time i finished bad guy i realized that the album was going to be way more intense than i'd prepared myself for, so i had to actually take a few minutes and get ready to listen through after that. never been more surprised by a piece, that's for sure.

[Jimmy Conway]

Yes

On Berzerk has a pretty high pitched voice. I was expecting that, but the album has that old man yelling at cats sound Recovery had. Not everywhere, but it is present.

Blonde hair, the name, the album packaging.....the entire vibe gave off a different feel than what the record actually feels like.

It's weird, it's a MMLP revisit. But Brainless sounds like he revisited Brain Damage. Stronger than I was feels like he revisited The Eminem Show. Rhyme or Reason sounds like he revisited 1970.


I'm not complaining, I like the album. It's much better than someone releasing their 8th effort should be.


But, yeah I felt like I got something a lot different than I thought was coming. But, the fact that he surprised me isn't really surprising. He's been doing that for 15 years.

[sneakerheadshady]

I had the opposite effect. I had 0 hope for the album until I heard it, now it's an all-time favorite along with MMLP/TES for me

setting your expectations low is usually a win-wim

wasn't my intent though, i'm typically excited for new em projects but this one i just wasn't. rap god excluded everything we had heard in the last 2 years or so was shit, i had almost no faith at all. but by the time i finished bad guy i realized that the album was going to be way more intense than i'd prepared myself for, so i had to actually take a few minutes and get ready to listen through after that. never been more surprised by a piece, that's for sure.

well thats pretty awesome then, to be like whatever and then BOOM

[Raul]

But, yeah I felt like I got something a lot different than I thought was coming. But, the fact that he surprised me isn't really surprising. He's been doing that for 15 years.

So, if he surprises you by not surprising you, he would still be surprising you?

[sneakerheadshady]

But, yeah I felt like I got something a lot different than I thought was coming. But, the fact that he surprised me isn't really surprising. He's been doing that for 15 years.

So, if he surprises you by not surprising you, he would still be surprising you?

[EminemBase]

Tracks don't need to sound the same, just come from the same musical family. "White America" realistically sounds nothing like "Without Me", but they feel like they belong together. Feels like one album of music.

LOL. Rap God, Rhyme or reason, Survival, and Love Game are all on the same album.

Albums need to be cohesive and all songs should like you say, at least feel like they are in the same family.

Actually not all albums have to sound cohesive... that's just a stupid thing to say.

Go listen to Sargent Pepper and tell me it sounds cohesive.

Sgt. Peppers sounds cohesive as fuck.

There's this same musical feel throughout... it sounds like one musical aim and sound.

Much like Revolver does APART from "Yellow Submarine" which is the "Beautiful" of the album.

[4Corners]

The only two that sound like they couldn't or shouldn't be on there are Monster and Survival. I mean, Relapse had Crack A Bottle and Beautiful which NOTHING like the rest, yet I have to listen to how that album is a supposed masterpiece on here.

[EminemBase]

The only two that sound like they couldn't or shouldn't be on there are Monster and Survival. I mean, Relapse had Crack A Bottle and Beautiful which NOTHING like the rest, yet I have to listen to how that album is a supposed masterpiece on here.

Yeah but...

those tracks are there which will forever ruin Relapse and stop it being what it should be, no doubt.

BUT - the rest of the tracks up until that point all sound totally unique from each other yet TOTALLY of the same 'batch', it sounds like one sound, one style, one musical direction.

I like MMLP2 a lot (genuinely), but it is just like a collection of songs. There is no sound.

But maybe that was intentional.

[4Corners]

But they all have a general sound from Eminem.....

I could hear Bad Guy on the same album as So Much Better or Brainless, or Evil Twin, or Love Game.

His rapping makes it sound together for me. I think he kept it fresh and diverse without being too far all over the place.

[EminemBase]

But they all have a general sound from Eminem.....

I could hear Bad Guy on the same album as So Much Better or Brainless, or Evil Twin, or Love Game.

His rapping makes it sound together for me. I think he kept it fresh and diverse without being too far all over the place.

Possibly.

The album is still confusing to me @ how I feel / how cohesive or not it feels.

[sneakerheadshady]

it fits really well to me, but survival doesnt fit at all. i think the monster fits, even though i dont really like the song

[Kill You]

But they all have a general sound from Eminem.....

I could hear Bad Guy on the same album as So Much Better or Brainless, or Evil Twin, or Love Game.

His rapping makes it sound together for me. I think he kept it fresh and diverse without being too far all over the place.

Possibly.

The album is still confusing to me @ how I feel / how cohesive or not it feels.

I think you're thinking too much, fam. Just sit back and enjoy the music. It's actually very cohesive bruh.