relapse is an album eminem himself hated in just a couple years after releasing it, he didn't like the weird sereial killer vibe with acents he was doing either.
The mighty algorithm surprised me with this and no mistake. Do give a listen to the new album, it’s surprisingly refreshing. As to what Slim represents- for me it was always that dark side of the human character, that inner troll, who sometimes just wants to pick up a brick and smash a random window just for the kick of it. L’appel du vide, if you will. Nobody has to actually act on it, Slim gives you a chance to channel this feeling through a character. “Criminal” springs to mind immediately here with the “then I’ll kill you” verse.
Everyone has their own opinion, I’m not trying to attack anyone for that. But slim shady has always been Eminems way of venting or his own personal therapy session. Songs like “kim” can affect younger audience negatively but that’s only because they shouldn’t be listening to it. It’s like letting a 5 year old play gta 5, it shouldn’t be allowed by parents. Then you have the slurs which he grew up on, I remember when if you did something weird or bad someone would say “that’s gay” but it’s not homophobic it’s just a saying. The literal interpretation of it is homophobic though. I also don’t think he has any racist songs, he’s said himself he faced racism in his home town and in rap. Slim shady was born from his struggles as stated in the video but when you get so rich and famous eventually you run out of struggles apart from reputation or an elevator breaking down in your mansion which is why slim shady seems hollow.
It’s when the guard dog becomes a lap dog (pertaining to your comment on him losing the fire on his music). Eminem really feels like a perfect pop culture icon for the time where a lot of people said stuff that was truthful (aka, ‘real’), but used language to hurt others and wasn’t necessarily part of others’ own truth. 1990’-2010’s saw a TON of change that a lot of folks haven’t caught up to. Good vid! And good points.
I feel like The Death of Slim Shady as a whole is related to this video's idea. Eminem clearly uses Slim Shady to hide behind whenever he says something controversial, and that will either be defended as not genuine, or not that bad and just funny. I wouldn't say that's wrong, but then there atr people like that one woman who made the original "gen z is trying to cancel eminem" song, who represent how annoying his fanbase inevitably became. After 2018 his fans were especially isolated as Eminem released two poorly received album in a row, in the latter of which he starts to rap really fast about how much he appearently hates mumble rap. The Death of Slim Shady almost feels like a response to how his fans take his words too seriously, though he also isn't going to stop. Maybe my expectations weren't high enough, but I was a bit surprised by how well he executed everything, or at least I am until he calls Dr. Dre the producifer or something.
I watched the whole thing to make sure I didn't miss anything. This video was one big ramble about unimportant and random things 😂
relapse is an album eminem himself hated in just a couple years after releasing it, he didn't like the weird sereial killer vibe with acents he was doing either.
The mighty algorithm surprised me with this and no mistake. Do give a listen to the new album, it’s surprisingly refreshing. As to what Slim represents- for me it was always that dark side of the human character, that inner troll, who sometimes just wants to pick up a brick and smash a random window just for the kick of it. L’appel du vide, if you will. Nobody has to actually act on it, Slim gives you a chance to channel this feeling through a character. “Criminal” springs to mind immediately here with the “then I’ll kill you” verse.
Everyone has their own opinion, I’m not trying to attack anyone for that.
But slim shady has always been Eminems way of venting or his own personal therapy session.
Songs like “kim” can affect younger audience negatively but that’s only because they shouldn’t be listening to it. It’s like letting a 5 year old play gta 5, it shouldn’t be allowed by parents.
Then you have the slurs which he grew up on, I remember when if you did something weird or bad someone would say “that’s gay” but it’s not homophobic it’s just a saying. The literal interpretation of it is homophobic though.
I also don’t think he has any racist songs, he’s said himself he faced racism in his home town and in rap.
Slim shady was born from his struggles as stated in the video but when you get so rich and famous eventually you run out of struggles apart from reputation or an elevator breaking down in your mansion which is why slim shady seems hollow.
It’s when the guard dog becomes a lap dog (pertaining to your comment on him losing the fire on his music).
Eminem really feels like a perfect pop culture icon for the time where a lot of people said stuff that was truthful (aka, ‘real’), but used language to hurt others and wasn’t necessarily part of others’ own truth.
1990’-2010’s saw a TON of change that a lot of folks haven’t caught up to.
Good vid! And good points.
I feel like The Death of Slim Shady as a whole is related to this video's idea. Eminem clearly uses Slim Shady to hide behind whenever he says something controversial, and that will either be defended as not genuine, or not that bad and just funny. I wouldn't say that's wrong, but then there atr people like that one woman who made the original "gen z is trying to cancel eminem" song, who represent how annoying his fanbase inevitably became. After 2018 his fans were especially isolated as Eminem released two poorly received album in a row, in the latter of which he starts to rap really fast about how much he appearently hates mumble rap. The Death of Slim Shady almost feels like a response to how his fans take his words too seriously, though he also isn't going to stop.
Maybe my expectations weren't high enough, but I was a bit surprised by how well he executed everything, or at least I am until he calls Dr. Dre the producifer or something.
@@milesmonacothesequel2294 interesting, I'll definitely have to give it a good listen
Producifer does it for u?? Lmfao
Really? The producifer of all things? One corny line that’s meant to be funny and that makes you think it’s bad?
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you should listen to more rap. holy. so casual 🙄
@GregCompton-rf9wt this isn't a video about rap as a genre though
Still bad