by Chanya » Oct 28th, '11, 00:07
i've wondered about this since the album came out as well, i've always thought it was a huge mistake on eminem's part to go back to the drawing board after the songs were leaked and replace them with mindless babble. we can't be sure that songs like "ass like that", "big weenie" and "my 1st single" were created to replace the leaked songs, but it would be a good assumption. i have always loved the bonus disc of encore and i wish it was part of the actual album. why did he decide only to put "love you more" and "we as americans" on the bonus disc, though? probably because they were the ones intended to be on the album. "ricky ticky toc" is basically just a long verse (albeit great), so i'm not sure that one would have made it. "no apologies" is great, but why wasn't it on the bonus disc, had it been intended for the album? and "monkey see, monkey do" and "bully" just don't have an album feel to them. so maybe encore wouldn't have been that great after all, had the songs not been leaked. but it definately would have been better than it ended up being. i personally would have replaced the most retarded, embarrasing songs "big weenie" and "ass like that" with "love you more" and "we as americans", and the album would have been at least decent.