because my friends list is REALLY going to be interested in this post...

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Eminem's new song pisses me off. Okay, first of all, what the HELL has become of his flow? His delivery, over the years, has become to his original Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LP self as Michael Jackson's face is to the kid in the Jackson 5.

What really bothers me, though, is that it's all TMZ and no human emotion. I don't care what he thinks of Lindsay Lohan. I didn't care what he thought of Christina Aguilera either. I cared about what he thought about Kim. I cared about what he thought of this Slim Shady construction. I cared about what he thought about looking back on his drug-addled misspent youth with tinges of both nostalgia and regret. I cared about his uneasy sense of racial boundaries. I cared. Past tense.

Eminem, stop Michael Jacksoning yourself.

Comments

[cbertsch.livejournal.com]

Aptly put. I did kind of like the political song in 2004, though it didn't do much. But the 1990s material was way, way better than the recent shite.

[violetselkie.livejournal.com]

I think it could also be that our national zeitgeist doesn't need a blonde to feel comfortable with rap anymore...he's lost his niche.

How have you been? You're still at the UA, in a different department, right?