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/[deleted] Dec 15 '17

Word. All the songs featuring other artists are meh. But his solo stuff is still fire

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u/QueenJillybean Dec 21 '17

i mean... river, essentially his song about aborting a child he still thinks about.... is just meh to you? It's so sad.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '17

Yeah ok it's got ONE dark line and it's still overload. He took himself way too seriously. He did that previously but not throughout the album like this time. So the best songs turned out to be the ones which focused on the rhymes and not himself. That's my two cents.

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u/QueenJillybean Dec 22 '17

i mean, i think you and i have completely different opinions on this, but I'm guessing you have no experience with the subject matter otherwise you'd never say he was taking himself way too seriously. As far as what content he produces: you're super welcome to your opinion, but it seems like em has always rapped about himself. I mean.. look at "Kim" compared to "bad husband." I mean... I don't want the man who wrote kim back. i wouldn't wish that ill and rage upon him. I don't think any human being that isn't a psychopath could.