TruEmFan wrote:first off...
the reason why i responded the way i did to this thread was cuz encore came out 2 years ago. and yet, i still find fans bitching and complaining about it
yeah, soperman, what you said could've been contructive criticism back in 2004, but when you hear it 2 fucking years later... it turns into bitching, therefore annoying.
and the fact that you say "i want the old eminem" and he needs to do this and that... i'ma say it again. an artist cannot stay the same forever. just cuz he is admired by millions of poeple, doens't mean he has to stay in one little box to make everyone happy. it's his life, his career, his music... let him do whatever he wants. if you don't like it, then stfu and stop complaining. no one is forcing you to listen to his music.
and to be honest, encore gets a lotta shit for the few songs that weren't that great. i found a perfect review for encore, and she labeled more than half the songs decent and quite good, and yet overall, she shitted on the record.
or some reason, the bad songs overcome the good songs on that record.
let's see...
evil deeds - good
never enough - good
yellow brick road - good
mosh - good
puke - good/bad
rain man - good/bad
my 1st single - bad
big weenie - bad
just lose it -good/bad
ass like that - bad
spend some time - good
mockingbird - good
crazy in love - good
one shot 2 shot - good/bad
encore - good
i know many ppl will disagree cuz after all, there are certaiun opinions... but this is just the general view i've got from different people from different places... now replace 2 of the bad songs with we as americans and love you more, (which was supposed to be on the record, but thanks to net ppl like us, they leaked, and had to be removed from the album) and you got a pretty decent album. maybe not his best, but far better than the other shit that i've heard.
my point is... if you want the old eminem back, then go listen to the mm lp and you'll get the old eminem. there's no point in telling someone what he/she should do.
it doesnt matter how much u review every song.. the fact that his album manages to leave a "Meh" felling and he kills the feeling of the album with some hidiouzs tracks and noises he does is why it gets hated... i stated that and merely that only.