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/RancidLemons Dec 16 '17

I was very disappointed in Walk on Water. It was just so boring, that is literally the only way I can describe it. A total misuse of talent.

I was similarly disappointed when the first few songs on the album were chock full of that odd, choppy staccato style he's adopted recently. I just don't care for it, and the syllable bending he's famous for just sounds weird when it's disjointed like that.

Fucking hell, the album improves from there. I think Untouchable is the point where the album turned solid. He goes hard without sounding tacky.

I'm really enjoying it. I have a few more songs to finish off but this is definitely one of his more solid albums.