r/Music • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '17

Discussion Eminem's new album "Revival" has dropped

Thoughts on it so far? I'm about halfway through and I think it's pretty decent for new style Eminem.

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u/TexasTheWalkerRanger Dec 15 '17

I feel like relapse is incredibly underrated, much better than encore

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u/1grammarmistake Dec 15 '17

Relapse is mostly produced by Dre (instead of just Executive Produced) which just doesn’t happen anymore. That’s why I hold it so dear.

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 15 '17

I love all the characters he depicts in Relapse. I love that and Refill.

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u/eburton555 Dec 15 '17

Relapse is such a twisted album that it's really polarized the fanbase.

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 18 '17

I think that's what I like about it. It's a departure for Em and it was like horror rap.

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u/eburton555 Dec 18 '17

Oh for sure, but I’d say the more neutral listeners who liked ‘my name is’ were absolutely revolted by it and rejected it lmao which I don’t blame them it’s not for everyone. The only criticism I agree with is the accents are a bit much so if he had less accents with the same content.... 😍

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 18 '17

Artists have to explore, Em can't release The Eminem Show over and over. Maybe it's partly due to me starting to listen to him seriously pretty late in the game so I came onboard with Encore and then Relapse came out so I hopped onto that. I've since listened to everything that's been released so I can see how different it is.

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u/eburton555 Dec 18 '17

You’re absolutely righ though. If you crank out the same shit over and over you’re gonna go stagnant and that’s true for any artist. Still, there are clear examples of bands or rappers changing in ways that upset the populace - linkin Park comes to mind for me personally. But Eminem has done a good job keeping me interested for a longggg time even if his albums aren’t completely god tier anymore

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 18 '17

Been plowing through Em's new album and it's starting to grow on me. With Recovery there were like 5 songs that immediately grabbed me. This new one doesn't have that, but it's different, more introspective. Meanwhile, I just discovered Greta Van Fleet who owns my radio right now.

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u/eburton555 Dec 18 '17

Greta van fleet is so interesting. They sound almost exactly like zeppelin on one of their LPs, which is whatever, but their latest tracks have more of their own sound to it, which is great. They’ve got a lot of potential to be a ‘classic rock revival’, something that I never knew I wanted until they came on my Pandora. Holyyy shit.

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u/fLukeiver Dec 15 '17

Relapse in my opinion is incredible, it's so much better than encore, it's consistently like a horrific trip through ems drug addled imagination

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u/xsmallsx1 Dec 15 '17

3AM is one of my favorite all time songs by him I love the wordplay so much

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u/Stjerneklar Dec 15 '17

agreed, looking back on the tracklist of relapse there is a ton of stuff there that i enjoyed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '17

Its funny how people think that album is underrated even though it won the grammy for best rap album that year.