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I love P!nk and think she's an underrated singer, but that piece has nothing to do on Revival and it wouldn't even be a standout song on P!nk's latest. So, what else is there about this album that's completely fucking unbearable? Did I mention the collaborations? There's a song with P!nk called Need Me, where Eminem starts rapping around the three minutes mark. Bars like: Black boy, black boy, we don't get your culture and / We don't care what our government's done to fuck you over, man are so contrived and devoid of any wit, it's like Eminem felt forced to write them, given the political climate.ĭo I even get started with the overbearing, borderline clownish samples? Nah, I'll let you listen for yourselves. He's always been a lead-by-example type of celebrity. Untouchable is his big anthem against racial inequity, which is very defentable in theory, but it's so unlike him to do such things. Revival suffers from the same problem Marilyn Manson's Heaven Upside Downdid: it tries to hard to say something meaningful about the state of U.S politics since Donald Trump's election. We've heard it all before, but at least he didn't apologize for it then. What the hell is that about? There a couple songs that plunder the past like this: River and Bad Husband trumpet his infidelities while Eminem claims he's still a good person. A softer, middle-aged version of himself that harvests his old songs for inspiration. It's like Eminem has become an entirely new person who's much less interesting. OK, great? Except that point's been made in The Way I Am in a much more convincing way, seventeen freakin' years ago.
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Walk on Water is supposed to be one of the selling point of the album, where Eminem declares his vulnerability and his mortality as a pop culture icon, set to a beautiful (and a little bland) chorus and by Beyoncé. THE READ HEADED LOVERBOY OF ATLANTIC RECORDS. I mean, is there a grosser way of selling out? There's a collaboration with Ed Sheeran on this record. It's a lurid, overproduced piece of shit meant to be a halfhearted attempt at protesting the Trump administration and an halhearted attempt at cashing in on random collaboration with whoever-sells-at-the-moment and the result is a complete mess. Revival has nothing to do with these masterpieces, though. I own several of his records in various format, including The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP and Recovery and they are still meaningful to me in 2017. I'm a long-time Eminem fan and when Revival was announced, I originally planned to love the shit out of it. I take no pleasure in slamming this album. Revival is a product of its time and we'll allowed to say that it fucking sucks. But it's not and it could never have been. Albums like Eminem's Revival would've been featured on Regretting the Past, had it been released 15 years earlier. It's always a powerful reminder of how the music industry used to create and control our desires and that its collapse might not be a bad thing after all.
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There is a YouTube series I really like called Regretting the Past, made by a young Florida-based rock critic named Luke Spencer, which features old albums everybody bought but nobody liked.