Nov 18, 2015 (anything said here can apply to beautiful pain) this is not an Eminem hate thread, this is more of discussing the fact Eminem been a very lazy writer...i cant find who said it or where i read it..but "spazzing" is the easiest form of writing just incase someone wanna bring up other songs where Em went "nuts" or whatever...anyway let me say, i personally love headlights, but i understand that its a bad song..heres why Headlights has one of the best beats/hooks of any emotional Eminem song in my opinion...completely ruined by the half assed lines rapped by Em...some are not bad as much as "funny" where he tried to be emotional...and there are lazy bits through out the song making the song unlistenable to some fans let me provide examples But regardless I don't hate you 'cause, Ma, You're still beautiful to me, 'cause you're my ma now this is straight out bad writing, he coulda said basically anything instead of "cuz your my mom" and it woulda worked better...this is the definition of lazy..not to mention its a redundant Desert Storm and both of us put together can form an atomic bomb equivalent to Chemical warfare not rly bad line, just awkwardly placed/said We're in the same f---ing boat also very musically awkward and out of rhythm That song I no longer play at shows and I cringe every time it's on the radio literally what? who the f--- play that ? But, Ma, I forgive you, so does Nathan, yo cant describe how lazy this is, straight up bad writing You pulled up in our drive one night as we were leaving to get some hamburgers Me, her and Nate, we introduced you, hugged you And as you left I had this overwhelming sadness come over me As we pulled off to go our separate paths first of all, why hamburgers? thats the best thing that came to mind when you wrote this? also your rich cant you spot your mom a five so she can eat with you? The stewardess said to fasten my seatbelt, I guess we're crashing jesus f---, such lazy and s--- writing So if I'm not dreaming, I hope you get this message that I'll always love you from afar 'Cause you're my Ma yup im done
Nov 18, 2015 Maybe he was actually getting hamburgers? But I agree,the song has a good message, but the delivery ruined the song
Nov 18, 2015 Boring but beautiful song. Oh fuvkm I couldn't think of this song without its wack video popping in my head...
Nov 18, 2015 this song is completely underwhelming and anyone who says differently is completely blind and/or purposely trying to not believe it. with the video they had a tremendous opportunity to improve the actual core feeling of the song, and that was probably one of the biggest flops subjectively speaking of eminem's career. the hook was re-used garbage, quite disappointing considering a big name like nate was on it, and everyone was hype at the moment the tracklist showed him on it.
Nov 18, 2015 I truthfully think it's a great song, sorry @Koolo . I love the fact that the beat resembles "Mother" by Lennon. Love the honesty. And they were probably getting burgers, what's wrong with that?
Nov 18, 2015 oh i love it too, but i can see how bad it is even if i love it nothing wrong with it...it just make someone go "really?"..esp when he goes haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamburger
Nov 18, 2015 aside from the massive flop of a music video which made the song an utter joke to almost everyone tbh
Nov 18, 2015 f---ing frustrating as a music fan tbh, the song is DECENT but the video had potential, they hyped the f--- out of it... and it was garbage. sort of like, how they hyped the calm down beat, and it was literally a loop
Nov 18, 2015 Song should have been better. @Koolo, I blame you because when the album first leaked you were overhyping the song saying it's the greatest song. I remember I skipped a bunch of songs because I just wanted to hear the song about apologizing to his mom. You made it sound like it's the best song he's ever put out. It's not bad on it's own, but for what it could have been. Forcing rhyme schemes into an emotional, honest song takes the delivery and feeling from it.
