AmmoHaze wrote:You watch Soccer EminemBase? See Barcalona fantastic team but sometimes they over do the passing even in dangerous poisitions literally 10 yards away from the goal when a player could pull the trigger and score a goal which is the entire purpose of the sport and why they passing is to score yet not doing it when they in the perfect position just to be 'complex' and they even lost games doing this
So sometimes not being overly complex overly conceptual overly sophisticated is not a bad thing sometimes keeping it simple getting to the point is a good thing
I don't watch soccer, no.
But soccer is a sport that has rules, and a point to it. The aim of the game is to score goals by kicking the ball in the opposing team's net, so what you're saying makes sense there.
But applying that analogy doesn't work for me, with art. Because art has no rules (or shouldn't have to. Unfortunately many just follow and copy, and fail to be original) / that's the beauty of art, that it's just expression and creativity and it can be complex; absurd, dark, political... whatever.
I don't want to listen to themes I could write myself. Obviously I can't write rhymes as good as Eminem, but listening to him describe his struggle is not new nor particularly interesting to me. Sometimes he does it so well that it's still great, and enjoyable anyway...
But overall, I want to be blown away. I want to listen to whatever it is he presents me with and go "wow, that's incredible", and hearing him talk about his life issues just doesn't do that. I don't want a chronicle of his life on record, that's so predictable, and to me it's a waste of what he's capable of.
I don't mind the odd record of it, but you seem to want a dominance of it.
Also, like I said: if Eminem naturally feels like writing emotional content, I don't really care. What I'm saying is, he doesn't owe you it and it's not what he should be defined as. Any good writer can write what they feel, but not just anybody can create "Stan".
It can be simple and just emotional, but have a reason to exist outside of pandering to that audience who want to hear that from him. For example, "Love the Way You Lie" is brilliant; but that's a concept and an ingenious paradoxical collaboration. He defines domestic violence in an incredibly graphic, realistic and psychological way. I'm not apposed to emotional or realistic content; in fact, reality always hits harder, but one dimensional whining? yawn.