― fritz, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
anyone who thinks "stan" isn't a smart (um) song about who he is and what he does, erm, whatever blah blah
"stan" is a smart (um) song about who he is and what he does
― mark s, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
oh and with regard to that eminem piece in That Stupid Book - the question is interesting but the approach to answering was incredibly wrong-headed (is that the modus operandi of the da capo series or what?).
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― John Darnielle, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― J Blount, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Douglas, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I have mixed feelings about him. He bores me, but he excites me. He comes fresh every time, but he says the same thing. (Despite probably having a lot to say, he seems to say the same thing over&over&over.)
As for his being proof of Dre's genius: I don't think Dre's beats always compliment his style so well. He should, like, join Anticon or something--somewhere where the beats are as insane as his flow.
― Keiko, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
You mean like the track on The Blueprint where Jay-Z nails his whiny ass to the floor? Okay then. ;-)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jordan, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Did Em produce "Without Me"? I'm thinking he did - the Casio poot- poot from "Purple Pills" is my evidence.
― Daver, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
That nasal voice is kind of a pain in the ass, too. Sounds like Lenny Bruce tryin' to rhyme sometimes.
― Nate Patrin, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― ethan, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I'm a bit disappointed considering some of the things I've heard about the album. I wanted more "Kim"s and "Stan"s and instead we get a sung ballad and a cameo from his daughter.
― Honda, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
One of the ones -- I think there are two others -- that I didn't get to hear. So maybe there's more there to love than I noted.
and "Business"
Pleasant enough, only really got my attention in parts.
Otherwise, Ned's got the right idea it seems.
Eh, a very rough take, no more. I do know what definitely works and was doesn't, and by god are "Drips" and "Hailie's Song" both coasting to the extreme. Dull, dull, dull as ditchwater.
I did joke how it's his heavy metal album, and the thing is that I think the best performances ("White America" and "Till I Collapse" in particular) rock in their own ways. I could just as easily be honing in on things that push my particular buttons musically, though, which wouldn't surprise me.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
"Look Marsha, he's dang done summat outrageous. I'm gonna have to get his CD now. No, I don't actually know what the music sounds like, why do you ask?"
Rememember when Marilyn Manson and Eminem hated each other? They don't.
Oh, and Eminem's fanbase really do think that the Elton John/Grammy shennanigans was a good idea. And even if he is classic, someone try and defend D12.
― Judd Nelson, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Never thought they did -- in fact, I thought the whole point was they got along!
Turns out the "Drips" and "Hailie's Song" out there are just loops from bits of the songs in particular, which explains much regarding why I was punching the skip button in frustration. So maybe they're not as boring as all that. ;-)
― http://gygax.pitas.com, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Harry H, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― bam bam, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dare, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mr Rock, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Surely "Will2K" wasn't that bad?
― Judd Nelson, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave unsworth, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
You might want to stop talking into the mirror there.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Oh, and you were a shit defender for Everton as well. Tool.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
fuck him for creating a disney-friendly version of a music that Em believes can be used to inspire, incite, educate, confuse, amuse? fuck you for buying it? fuck you for unthinkingly labelling a white rapper as a gimmick and thus forcing Em to continue a career seeming fueled by potty-mouthdom that frame him as the anti-Will and thus result in sales figures? fuck him and fuck you because Em wants *this* record to sell?
subtlety aplenty
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Personally, I want to see Eminem do a light-hearted, profanity-free party song, if only to confuse his critics even more.
― J Blount, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
This doesn't strike me as being particularly subtle. Yes, there is some cleverness in the "fuck you too" part, but it's really just another incarnation of Eminem's one running joke, which is that we love him even though he's so baaaaaad.
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Marketing.
― Ben Williams, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― alarmbell, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― jacob, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
(And for the record, I think "Any Man" is a fucking hoot.)
― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Perfecto, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― o. nate, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nate Patrin, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
who?
― banriquit, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:06 (seventeen years ago)
you had to be there.
― scott seward, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:08 (seventeen years ago)
if u like eminem. u might also like linkin park. there good too.
― michael, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)
Hey guys, there's a hot new band called Crazy Town. The singer has rad tattoos.
― chap, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)
still classic.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:23 (seventeen years ago)
wtf @ thread
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 04:26 (seventeen years ago)
Aesop Rock is not better than Eminem. -- Perfecto, Sunday, May 19, 2002 12:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link
Poll.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 09:14 (seventeen years ago)
The hip-hop Marilyn Manson.
-- Judd Nelson, Monday, May 13, 2002 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link
― and what, Friday, 18 July 2008 01:15 (seventeen years ago)
d12 >>>> demigodz btw
Question: Body Count and Cannibal Corpse have performed more offensive stuff than this for ten years without a blip from anyone, yet Feminem records this aural vomit and now he's cutting edge? Yeah.
― ilxor, Friday, 27 March 2009 02:48 (sixteen years ago)
is that question directed to 8 years ago?
― iatee, Friday, 27 March 2009 02:51 (sixteen years ago)
oh it's a joke
― iatee, Friday, 27 March 2009 02:53 (sixteen years ago)
Yep, was referring to Eminem circa the Marshall Mathers LP era. xpost
― ilxor, Friday, 27 March 2009 02:56 (sixteen years ago)
so glad we don't have to think about eminem anymore
― iatee, Friday, 27 March 2009 02:57 (sixteen years ago)
"Oh MAN does this group suck. They've ridden the SAME three songs and have made the same album out of them THREE times. And their rich, privileged white fans eat it up, yo. Spare me."
― Mordy, Friday, 27 March 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/34-arrests-two-claims-sexual-2200252
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/complaints-flood-during-eminem-concert-2204236
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 23 August 2013 01:12 (twelve years ago)