Please shut up
Why did it take four people to write Eminem's "The Real
Slim Shady"? First, the lyrics are of the ABAB
rhyming variety and some are of the AAAA variety,
like rhyming Shady with Shady. Second, the
background "music" is little more than muzac that any
idiot can make on a synthesizer with a weekend of
training. Ohhh, samba, how impressive!
For someone who uses reverb on practically all of his
songs to disguise his inability to even hold a basic
note, I don't see where a homophobic bigot
like that gets off criticizing the Backstreet Boys.
At least they have a legitimate excuse for needing four
"helpers" as they need someone to write the music,
arrange the vocals, choreograph the dancing, and play
the instruments. Em': bad music, poor lyric writing,
and no dancing.
It bothers me that they refer to him as a "street
poet" since it's sort of like refering to Ricky Martin
as "the voice of Latin America."
A couple of Eminem factoids that I have yet to read in the media:
- 99.9% of his "dope street rhymes" refer to Hollywood in some way, shape
or form.
- "Stan" makes the Puff Daddy look like a musical genius by contrast. Hell,
I can talk over someone's already pre-existing song. Of course, what Dido's
faux-Sarah McLachlan song has to with some obsessed fan killing his wife
doesn't make any sense, but I suppose it's a break from the cheap syntho
background in his other stuff.
- Of course, other than "Stan" every other single he has put out has a
treated voice as well. Why? Well, I suppose just good ol' Eminem talking
wouldn't be, uh, funny enough.
- James McLuhan IV
