Some thoughts on Eminem

[Amadeo]

After listening to Eminem's interview on Zane Lowe's show, I was pretty disappointed. It wasn't until I heard his answers in this interview that I realized just how limited and unambitious his thinking has been, and still is (kinda).

He says he needs to "round an album out" as if it's a complete necessity. He could possibly have excluded some great songs from this album because that would mean he's not presenting an album with a variety of "moods." Yawn.

He says the Bad Meets Evil EP was fun because he didn't have to balance it out because it was an EP...I don't see what the difference is. These are both products being distributed by his label...but because one product has 16 songs as opposed to 9, he needs to balance it out? "Balancing it out" is just his rationale for being a pussy who can't stick to his guns.

In the past, when his label said, "you gotta balance it out!!1111" he would write blatantly tongue-in-cheek pop songs as if to say "yeah, fuck off. Put this out, then." Or even explicitly telling his label to fuck off like on The Way I Am. Now he just accepts this like there's no other option.

He then says he stopped counting bars a few times on this album, which is alarming. He was actually counting out bars on Relapse/Recovery..."this song must have 16 bar verses. Hmm, this verse features some brilliant lyricism which perfectly conveys what I want to say but it's 24 bars long...I need to chop off 4."

It's almost like he's only just figured out that he can do whatever he likes within a song, hence what we got with Bad Guy. The end of that song, and moments of So Far, is him going, "haaaaang on. This is my song and my art, and I'll do whatever the hell I please with it. Fuck it, make the song 7 minutes long, I don't give a shit."

That's the silver lining. He's actually starting to become less of a pussy, at least compared to the giant human vagina he was on Recovery. Baby steps, I guess.

[Fleka]

I agree. I don`t know if there is somebody that is making Eminem do things or he just thinks like that now. I just want to know if this album is 100% what Eminem thinks it should be and how it should sound like. If not, I want one of those in the future.

[Hopsinshadie]

Eminem needs to have more control and should not continue with the label going forward

[Notalius]

Eminem needs to have more control and should not continue with the label going forward

Hopsinshadie needs to have more control and should not continue with being a bipolar faggot going forward

[sbolli1]

Eminem needs to have more control and should not continue with the label going forward

Hopsinshadie needs to have more control and should not continue with life

fixed.

[SliK]

Eminem needs to have more control and should not continue with the label going forward

Hopsinshadie needs to have more control and should not continue with life

fixed.

Actually I think you just fucked it up

[sbolli1]

Hopsinshadie needs to have more control and should not continue with life

fixed.[/quote]

Actually I think you just fucked it up[/quote]

Well, that's because you're an idiot

[sbolli1]

haha I know i'm not too good at this forum shit. I just enjoy provoking Slik

[Notalius]

^ you keep fuckin up the quotes dude

his avy doe .. oh wait

[Kill You]

Keep whining.

[B.A.D.]

That's the silver lining. He's actually starting to become less of a pussy, at least compared to the giant human vagina he was on Recovery. Baby steps, I guess.

haha lmao

[EminemInsider]

After listening to Eminem's interview on Zane Lowe's show, I was pretty disappointed. It wasn't until I heard his answers in this interview that I realized just how limited and unambitious his thinking has been, and still is (kinda).

Yeah, it's starting to seem like he wasn't even really kidding with his, "the thing I'm most excited about is just to be done with it" comment in the booth during a college football game. In his interviews leading up to the original MMLP, he said (paraphrasing), "I feel like this album is killing the last one. If you don't feel that way about what you're doing, it's time to quit. I mean, what are you even in it for?"

With this album, and even his last two albums (although it's understandable with Relapse, given the ordeal he'd been through), he went, "I mean, I hope I did a good job on this. I'm not sure, but I hope the fans will like it."

He says he needs to "round an album out" as if it's a complete necessity. He could possibly have excluded some great songs from this album because that would mean he's not presenting an album with a variety of "moods." Yawn.

He says the Bad Meets Evil EP was fun because he didn't have to balance it out because it was an EP...I don't see what the difference is. These are both products being distributed by his label...but because one product has 16 songs as opposed to 9, he needs to balance it out? "Balancing it out" is just his rationale for being a pussy who can't stick to his guns.

In the past, when his label said, "you gotta balance it out!!1111" he would write blatantly tongue-in-cheek pop songs as if to say "yeah, fuck off. Put this out, then." Or even explicitly telling his label to fuck off like on The Way I Am. Now he just accepts this like there's no other option.

On the plus side, at least it shows he's thinking about the overall album again, like he did with The Eminem Show. The downside of that is songs like Stimulate were left off the album...but then we got that as a bonus song. I'm thinking the songs he winds up leaving off that he considers high quality are the ones he puts out as bonus tracks.

He then says he stopped counting bars a few times on this album, which is alarming. He was actually counting out bars on Relapse/Recovery..."this song must have 16 bar verses. Hmm, this verse features some brilliant lyricism which perfectly conveys what I want to say but it's 24 bars long...I need to chop off 4."

It's almost like he's only just figured out that he can do whatever he likes within a song, hence what we got with Bad Guy. The end of that song, and moments of So Far, is him going, "haaaaang on. This is my song and my art, and I'll do whatever the hell I please with it. Fuck it, make the song 7 minutes long, I don't give a shit."

That's the silver lining. He's actually starting to become less of a pussy, at least compared to the giant human vagina he was on Recovery. Baby steps, I guess.

I was gonna stop at 16, that was 32. This is 34 bars, we ain't even third of the way through.

As I've said in the past, it's really obvious he's more or less trying to recreate the old him through listening to what he did and breaking it down, rather than actually being the old him.