NextEpisode wrote:Looking at this song from a "music-perspective", without picking the song apart, analyzing it... I find that, when I'm just simply listening to the song (basically), I can just sit back, and enjoy what I'm hearing. When I hear Em shouting like he's about to explode, with that extreme shot voice, on songs that really doesn't need it, I can't say the same.
Well this is maybe where I differ to most fans here then, as when I hear "Almost Famous"... obviously I don't 'sit back' like... it's not that kind of a track. It's hyper and intense. But, I find it extremely enjoyable and satisfying, as I do with "Above the Law" and I find it much more satisfying than "The Reunion" where there isn't much of a flow structure, or intensity or ton of rhyming to what he's saying so... after the intensity of his latest madness, it just underwhelms me.
But, I'm one of the few who like his 'shouty flows'. I don't find that he sounds shot because, he's obviously forcing it but he knows that's obvious, with little nods to it in his lyrics like on "Above the Law" with "but my voice is sore". And I find it funny that he's making such an effort to sound so INSANELY angry for no apparent reason
, which makes it an indulgence and a style, rather than genuine.
Which, to me just makes it funny and badass for some reason, as it's like he loves being angry so will do anything to create it, even if there's no reason. Like he's doing it to annoy people, there's a bit of character in that. Rather than being true-to-life and self-serious, which bores me.
That aside, I just love the sound of it. Like the "Fame" verse. Where he repeats the same rhyme structure and emphasizes each one like that. It's just like cocaine to me.
Where as "The Reuinion" is more like, he's just 'talking' babble, too much swearing and he's not saying anything particularly clever or lyrical. It's basic storytelling and he's not doing it in a way that he hasn't done better before or in a way that's especially new. So it doesn't do much for me. And his flow on it doesn't have the usual addictive or, melodic structure of his best stuff either.
NextEpisode wrote:And people getting nostalgic, is a good thing right? if the 2011 Em, reminds of the 2001 Em, it should be a good sign? Because, 2001 (or w/e), was when Em was in his absolute prime.
Um... well I don't know. I don't think it is good, not to me anyway because a great artist to me is an artist that evolves and builds on what they've done. Not one that rehashes or looks back. Or even recreates.
I mean, I know he's openly looked back and harped back and done all sorts of lyrical and theoretical nods within his lyric to past work but, he rarely goes backwards with his SOUND. He's always moving, always pushing for a new sound each time round.
So, if I hear something I've heard before and, done worse than what I heard before in that way, I don't see any reason for it to exist. Unless it's extremely enjoyable. Which that song isn't to me. The chorus is very good but I don't find the rest of the song particularly memorable at all.
When I listen to new material I want to think "wow, I've never heard him do that before" or "this is unlike anything I would of ever expected". I want to be surprised and blown away. And the first time I heard
Relapse, or songs like "Buffalo Bill" I got that. And I even got that with say "Almost Famous" and some of
Recovery.
That song definitely doesn't do that for me though. I want him to move forwards.
