Other than that, MtbMb’s biggest crime is its more forgettable tracks. While it isn’t quite as terrorising as Revival’s attempts at portraying sexual attraction (“Remind Me” and “Heat” will go down as two of the worst songs of his career) I can’t help but feel this kind of song is best left on the cutting room floor. Not to mention Eminem regresses into dad puns such as “I said ‘Go with you where?’ She said ‘out’ / I said ‘I’m a candle, I’ll go out if you blow on me'”. Problem is, it feels so conspicuously, sickeningly, squeaky clean commercial Ed Sheeran that it completely detracts from the low key dangerous, sinister mood, throwing the listener right into the pop vibe of “No. One such unsuccessful detour is “Those Kinda Nights” which sees Eminem pining after a women in a drug and booze-induced haze, and acoustic pop phenomenon Ed Sheeran handles the hook. To a certain degree, Eminem achieves this, but as is to be expected in 20 tracks across 64 minutes, there are a number of detours, for better or worse. So what of the album itself? The theme presented within the artwork and the Alfred Hitchcock interludes promises a body of work fashioned after his horrorcore roots but with a modern take. In striking in the midst of bad publicity, Eminem shows he is still in touch with what made him tick back in his heyday. There was no way he could have waited another four years to release new music following Revival, for that album saw him give in to all his worst tendencies and by the time 2021 rolled around, his relevance would have been dead in the water.
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Call it a midlife crisis, but Eminem is doing his utmost to keep his name out there, and he knows full well that to succeed, he has to make a few concessions to be seen as a viable force in the current hip-hop climate. Still a far cry from classic Eminem, but listeners walked away from the album with a renewed hope.Īs much as he wishes to defy his detractors, it’s clear Eminem has taken some time to reflect on the criticisms, which brings us to Music to be Murdered by – his second surprise album, and third to be released in just over two years. On the surface, this is probably the worst possible way he could have responded to the criticism, but ironically, it was a much more passionate, focused, and enjoyable effort. Only eight months later, Eminem surprise released “Kamikaze”, a 45-minute response album which took aim at his critics and the current mumble-rap scene, thereby igniting a feud with Machine Gun Kelly and further controversy for calling Tyler, the Creator a “faggot”. It was a four year wait following the surprisingly good Marshall Mathers LP 2, and both critics and diehard fans struggled to defend the album’s endless creative mis-steps. It was back in late 2017 when Eminem released the worst album of his career, which, ironically, he decided to title “Revival”. Eminem’s new surprise album marks a welcome return to his horrorcore roots, though it’s sometimes held back by questionable lyrics and mis-matched guest features.