Aug 27, 2024 Warning: ultra nerdy stan post overintellectualizing about Eminem below I think you meant to say "since Encore", since "since TES" would include that album well. But this is certainly true of the vast B*** of his music since Recovery, most of all MTBMB imo. But on Death of Slim there are moments where I believe he doesn't merely do a great job of imitating the old Eminem, but very literally "recovers" or "revives" the artist, even the person, he used to be, as if through, say, hypnosis, or to use the My Darling metaphor, as if channeling a spirit. It's hard for me as someone who's not a psychologist or psychoanalyst to explain exactly what I mean by "literally" in the relevant parlance, but I'll say this: I don't believe that people who go through such enormous personality changes as in the case of Eminem ever really lose their old self beyond all recovery. When I say that the Eminem who wrote No Apologies is dead, in a way I don't mean it literally. I think under the right conditions older versions of a person can come out not only in glimpses but in large (if short-lived) bursts as well, with indisputable examples from this album being: That's not modern Eminem. It just isn't. And it's not only the de-aged vocals that make me say that, because it doesn't explain the delivery and passion in his voice. 2000 Eminem might as well have come back from the dead and spit those verses (f--- it, I'm considering them verses in themselves) in 2024, or whenever they were recorded. Eminem truly tapped into something special here. Something magical happened in the studio those days. There are no moments like this on his last 6 albums, counting both sides of MTBMB separately. Not one.
Aug 28, 2024 I read annotation about Eminem in his profile and notice that TDOSS should released on June but delayed.
Aug 28, 2024 How many years have we been saying Eminem needs to recapture his old sound, waiting album after album for him to put out something on par with his old music? This time he finally did it, and in his 50s no less. There's no shame in trying to figure out how he did it after failing miserably for the past 15 years. And once again, you yourself have probably written more words about Eminem in your lifetime than about anything else. Let that sink in, Tonsh.
Aug 28, 2024 Yeah I agree with this. It's definitely his best rapping since... Tes. But even more so, captures mmlp spirit, the tonality and the humour and the sharpness, the cutting delivery of it... And feel totally comfortable saying it wipes the floor with everything since then, felt it immediately. Just in terms of how he sounds and a spirit he captured, agree. But, still find myself p bored with it p quickly. Maybe it is just BC he's... 12 albums in and, it's nyon impossible for him to say s--- I haven't heard, don't expect etc. at this point. Especially when he's in this lane. So it's very good, just kind of... Artistically... Meh. Plus I didn't think he pushed it far enough. If he said actually offensive s---, even 'just to say it', since the whole point he's making here is that shady is a mindless provocetuer, which, he never entirely was but, he's justifying himself even 'as shady' here, as if justifying his own somber opinions... Like, saying can't we just show solidarity with a. Wrist band lmao. Like, it's so tame and considered and soft left of centre... For him to be characterising it as antichrist and Lucifer etc.
Aug 28, 2024 Yeah it’s more than the vocals that made this nostalgic. His delivery and writing is back to his 2000’s style. Houdini is better than even some of his 2000’s singles. I’ll take it over we made you or monster
