Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna

hi do u like this song

http://thehypefactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Eminem-feat-Rihanna-Love-The-Way-You-Lie.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U

i really like it especially in the car, and rihanna's voice is anthemic in that way she can be, rallying us

also my friend says it's controversial or something

rihanna is so so fantastic on this

The song is awful, and Em sounds like a waiter asking the kitchen for another order of cheese sticks.

hahaha

this song is obviously atrocious

honest portrayal of domestic violence

me and this woman was singin it on the street today when somebody was blaring it out their car

don't mind the chorus but i can only get about ten seconds into em's verses before i switch it off

i feel like i'm driving around in my friend's volvo in highschool

not as good as the drake/em track

don't mind the chorus but i can only get about ten seconds into em's verses before i switch it off

^

My 14 year-old niece (who listens to top 40 radio but not rap/r'n'b radio) loves it; my 16 year-old son who listens to rap/r'n'b radio hates Em on this and most cuts; me--I'm not crazy about Em on this one.

thats why they call it windowpane :-(

yeah this song blows

thats why they call it windowpane :-(

otm

i mean the hook is tolerable sort of but i just wonder like, how much mediocre-to-bad rapping is one willing to put up with for one decent hook? is this gonna be like "empire state of mind" again?

empire verses were more interesting than these imo (tho that's not saying a lot), and keys' chorus was way bigger than rihanna's

on top of that hearing rih sing "that's alright because i like the way it hurts"...uh, too soon

xp agree to disagree on geriatric jay's rapping i guess, and yeah key's hook is aight but the showtuneness put me off.

i don't think it's any coincidence that riri sound exactly like haley whatsherface on "airplanes" on this. the imitation feels cynical

I can't believe this song has been such a huge hit, it's Rihanna's name that's selling it right?

Even though it's been hanging round the top five for the last two months I hadn't heard it till I clicked on this thread, but I pretty much started hating it as soon as the first verse started. I do like Rihanna but the chorus is quite uninspired. I think of her as quite a clever and talented performer but two years ago she was duetting with Maroon 5, this is somehow worse.

xp lol and that song sucks too - what was the last legit r&b/rap crossover hit that was actually good? i must just be forgetting

I can't believe this song has been such a huge hit, it's Rihanna's name that's selling it right?

that eminem dude's sold a few records too

the rihanna/m5 joint is dope imo

i like it. windowpane made me cringe, but i think the video's an accurate depiction of some relationships i've seen. so, whatever.

that eminem dude's sold a few records too

― k3vin k., Monday, August 16, 2010 4:33 AM (2 minutes ago)

I was under the impression his last album pretty much bombed and he was almost washed up, that may have been wishful thinking though.

relapse and recovery are both (about to be) double plat, unfortunately

can't believe this song is even being talked about

http://images.topix.com/gallery/up-NMB6CUBQAG4J303F.jpg

It's a huge hit and we're wondering why.

i must be ILX's only Eminem fan

he was pretty good back when he was rapping about charleston chews and stuff

well I mean I'm mostly a fan of Slim Shady LP and Marshall Mathers LP

i still can't quite get to grips with the way this eminem comeback is a thing - like more than any other artist i've ever liked he just seems so of his time, preserved in turn-of-the-century amber. and everything he's doing now is a weary retread of stuff he did back then, it's like if britney was still churning out "baby one more time" knock-offs.

I get to hear a lot of ringback tones at my job, and I assumed this one was a significantly less popular single from a newer artist possibly derivative of the Alanis Morrisette/Meredith Brooks/Avril Lavigne thing and so I google'd one line of lyrics and I was surprised that this was the famous "Love The Way You Lie" I had heard so much about. I suppose it's an ok chorus simply because it stuck in my head, but nonetheless annoying... As far as I can tell the verses are hugely forgettable and shouldn't be the reason why many people enjoy this song.

really surprised when i found out this was rihanna, figured it was just a preset.

Was really hoping that when Rihanna was on some proper 'lol chris brown' shit it would be a big tina turner anthem instead of this shit.

San Te - I think concensus is those first two records are dope.

Lex - I think it is understandable that Eminem would always be given a free comeback clause. Both in the same way that when the Rolling Stones still release records, they sell v. healthy numbers and also as a big figure head of not being associated w/ the southern rap sound so the people who misguided in thinking Gucci is a 'stupid' rapper can think that Em is still a 'smart' one. It's all bollocks obv. Also he's white.

Whiter than ever in fact.

i still can't quite get to grips with the way this eminem comeback is a thing -

But he really didn't go anywhere, did he? His sales haven't dropped significantly.

Yeah, he went five years w/o making a record, tho!

I guess, but he took a break at the height of his commercial powers.

I was telling J0rdan the other day that the disparity b/w Em's critical and commercial success lately is remarkable.

At the risk of repeating myself, I dunno, my take on this song is the same as my take on the whole record. That I still really enjoy listening to him RAP, and he's clearly rapping again (ie, compare the record to crap like "Crack A Bottle")—but the beats and choruses and concepts and ideas and everything else that actually makes up a song is kind of underwhelming and often smh.

I'm standing somewhere in that area between "I'm not ready to count him out" and "This thing definitely should not be the #1 song in the country"

I was telling J0rdan the other day that the disparity b/w Justin Bieber's critical and commercial success lately is remarkable.

Em's cuter though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEC-uSRWyZc

and you know what I meant. Exactly ten years ago we were all like MAJOR ARTIST and he's playing with pink jumpsuit-wearing Elton John; now his sales are the 2010 equivalent of his 2000 numbers and everyone but Rolling Stone yawns.

I was telling J0rdan the other day that the disparity b/w Sting's critical and commercial success lately is remarkable.

i can't claim to understand what makes for good rap, but i think it's pretty easy to hear the formulaic merit to this song. that chorus specifically is visceral, electrifying and powerful, and rihanna's voice is produced perfectly.

rihanna sounds glorious on it. made me like the song more than i thought i would. i seem to be hearing quite a lot of dysfunctional-love songs on the radio at the mo.

what was the last legit r&b/rap crossover hit that was actually good? i must just be forgetting

― k3vin k., Monday, August 16, 2010 12:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Trey Songz f/ Fabolous - "Say Aah"

Heard this in Borders on Friday night, good for browsing.

I like how they've taken Joan of Arc and updated her to the 21st century.

I've decided that I actually like this song. surm otm, it makes a kick-ass coming on over the radio in the car song.

heard it in a DJ mix on an actual rap station for the first time the other day :(

walked through a street carnival and they were blasting this while kids rode around on a lil amusement ride. sooo weird

the goddamn bridge of "not afraid" eurrrrghhh

i knooooow

Yeah, even as one of the few defenders of that particular song around here, that bridge is atrocious.

like... the rest sux but i can deal dealwithit.jpg

but the bridge is a thing of horror

I think the only reason I like "Love The Way You Lie" so much is because it isn't "Not Afraid"

two years ago a friend of mine
asked me to say....NO MIMES

^lol rong thread

Anyway, ugh. I just figured out that "Not Afraid" is Em's attempt to write a Rihanna song.

errrr

a Rihanna song "Umbrella"

I'm tired.

wait what

fucking enough already with this song, fuck fuck fuck fuck

Was about to repost your

this song is everywhere fuuuuuuckkkkkkkk

At a sandwich shop, heard it twice in an hour, with "Not Afraid" in between.

love the way you lie pt. 2 on new rihanna album, just rihanna (no em), yessssssss

yeah i'm sure it'll be just as good as alicia's empire state of mind pt 2

lol

Live Your Life is a good song though right?

fucking braindead cretins still wanting to play this song

the radio here is playing the fucking haddaway song

is there a new haddaway song or are you pretending there is not a 100% legitimate reason for radio stations to play "what is love"

no the em/wayne song samples it

you can tell curtis lives in atlanta

there's a love the way you lie part 2 on rihanna's album

thank you based god

Ok, now they are playing IWHIPMYHAIRBACKANDFORTH, which is making up for it.

Part II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdy--5dFdkw&
Much better.

waht?? there's a part II???

woah it's pretty

i'm liking this trend of hook singers reclaiming songs they made into hits for over the hill rappers

there's a pt 1?

lol "window pane" was just the answer to a $2000 Double Jeopardy question.

I've changed my mind, I love this song. "Window Pane" is stupid from any formalist rap point of view, but it's the kind of thing the character in the song might actually come up with. And the hook is undeniable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xenwHeU4CaQ

every character in every Eminem song is an unsympathetic asshole who thinks horrible puns are clever.

i am listening to it again now

have kind of decided this is more hilariously bad than horrifyingly bad, but just barely -- not just for the window pane line but for "when a tornado and a volcano" and "LOOK ME IN THE EYEBALL"

i liked when this was on the radio

"not afraid" & "love the way you lie" are my least favorite back-to-back pop singles in a long fucking time

probably since "i kissed a girl" & "hot & cold"

i dislike "not afraid" but like the rest of those

You have shit taste.

<3 u boo.

http://i.imgur.com/81RgR.png

http://rookiemag.com/2013/08/not-my-superman/

God, I had honestly forgotten about this shit. Really don't think I've heard it since 2010; did the nation come to its senses?

It still gets decent radio play where I live.

Great essay there.

still gets play

The song is awful, and Em sounds like a waiter asking the kitchen for another order of cheese sticks.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink