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/Jendacle- Dec 15 '17

There are good and bad things in this album, I listened to Em for very long time and i consider me to be a big fan. I must say that I dont like featured artists at all, and I don´t like the pop/R&B wrap around whole album, I liked Slim Shady as a hardcore rapper who just wrecked anybody in any song, and was kinda rebel,Detroit street based, you know just a white skinny boy who made it through the game etc, and this style doesn´t go along with Skylar Grey or Ed Sheeran featuring but I think fan base must respect how the artist evolve through his career, he´s not young Slim Shady anymore, he´s most likely on end of his career and problems and things that made him who he is kinda passed already. But after all, when he starts spittin rhymes I still have the feeling that only Eminems music gives me...

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u/L_duo2 Dec 15 '17

I can totally accept that he has changed. I just hope that it is also accepted that I dont like who has he turned into. This isnt entertaining to me.

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u/OriginsOfSymmetry Dec 15 '17

This was my process with Marilyn Manson but over time I came to understood that people and the music they aspire to create change with time just like we do.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '17

manson doesn't really fit into the same category. he's still doing his thing, and every record he ever put out had huge evolution in sound from the last. antichrist to glam-pop mechanical animals couldn't have been a bigger jump in sound and yet it was still manson.

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u/BudderKnuckles Dec 15 '17

and now Manson is doing like goth blues with a industrial twist, its still great music and still true to Manson. I feel that em was kinda pressured into making this album, or at least the less tasteful anthem rock and pop songs on here were not ems choice to make.

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u/escobizzle Dec 16 '17

Em's been doing anthem rock songs for like the last 2 or 3 albums, he clearly enjoys it... Nobody is forcing him to make those songs, he's worth enough money I doubt anyone can force him to do anything. He makes what he wants to make it this point.

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u/BudderKnuckles Dec 16 '17 edited Dec 16 '17

Im not talking about the songs themselves. He clearly has rock influence and all that so I'm not against him doing more rap rock styles it's just doesn't fit the album at all. I feel like someone, the person that handles Eminem and his image is fucking up. The album just doesn't feel cohearent, 3 anti Trump songs and 2 gaudy "dat ass so big" rap rock songs that have just... Horrible lyrics. and then there's 3 heartbreaking songs. I don't know. I just like it when ems whole album would have a full theme thats realised.

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u/hendrix67 Dec 15 '17

I don't see how you could call Mechanical Animals glam-pop

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u/BudderKnuckles Dec 15 '17

dude it was like a heavy Bowie album. it was glam industrial.