Cracked.com criticises Eminem in new article

[eat_healthy]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18731_why-eminem-needs-to-find-something-new-to-rap-about.html

Hey guys I don't usually post, been lurking for about 8 months now

I thought you would appreciate this article, I haven't read it yet but I know as a fan of Em I'm going to find it interesting regardless of how Eminem is portrayed in it.

Enjoy!

[Devil'sAdvocate]

again wit the same shit

[EminemBase]

I read the article and the person who wrote that is a moron.

I could sit here for 2 hours picking it apart bit by bit but I don't have the fucking energy right now. Like somebody that retarded would pay attention anyway.

You may as well print that out on paper and wipe your ass with it.

[Slill_Slim_Shady]

omg this guy is really a moron!!!!
Does he really sejest Em to rap about driving fansy cars or i get it wrong??

[roland_of_gilead]

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

that says it all, doesn't it

LOL

[roland_of_gilead]

arcade fire.......

the suburbs

[roland_of_gilead]

anyone wanna buy a tree



ac - ts

[eat_healthy]

cool so after reading that I realise I was wayyy too positive about that article...

[roland_of_gilead]

cool so after reading that I realise I was wayyy too positive about that article...

what makes you think he has the right to make you feel anything other than pure unbridled social joy

[Kez]

You guys are embarrassing.

You're seriously gonna make out Cracked is shit cause it made a joke about Eminem? Fuck me.

They're entitled to their opinion, and it's a fucking comedy site. Chill the fuck out.

Plus, he's got a point.

[roland_of_gilead]

You guys are embarrassing.

You're seriously gonna make out Cracked is shit cause it made a joke about Eminem? Fuck me.

They're entitled to their opinion, and it's a fucking comedy site. Chill the fuck out.

Plus, he's got a point.

go on. feel it? i do

[Evan C.]

Um, Cleanin' Out My Closet and Not Afraid are similar?

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[master360]

WTF?

[Ella]

aha funny moments and we all kno Em has repetitive subject matter but thats what he does

also COMC, SGH & LTS has nothing to do w/ gettin clean from drugs like NA or inspirational
if u find those songs inspirational i dunno what 2 say lol

[katha]

Congratulations! You are the perfect example of the white trash demographic eminem is tailor made for. You win 3 beer coozies, a dvd box set of wwe raw and season tickets to nascar. Simply submit your personal details down at your nearest wal-mart to receive your prize.

This comment on the site towards a poster who said he identifies with Eminem's material pretty much sums up this whole mess IMO. No one cares if people like Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen endlessly sing about their torturous relationships and cheating. But that's "deep" and "meaningful" because they're college-educated which makes everything they do genius.

Eminem's songs are personal, they have always been personal and I honestly believe that some of the backlash to his popularity and success has always been that he gives voice to the dysfunction that goes on in society and that he tells it from the point of view of someone who grew up in a trailer and flunked out of highschool. See, only well-meaning liberal "intellectuals" are allowed to talk about social issues and have it called art. Hell, there's currently a little privileged girl who makes banal dance tunes and is being called some sort of Messiah because she once went to art school...which makes her just pretentious enough for all the hipsters.

Oh, and this article also doesn't make all that much sense. IMO you could argue that he sometimes whines too much and repeats himself. But comparing these two specific songs doesn't prove that...because they're not alike. At all. One is about the fucked-up relationship with his mother, the other is about facing his drug addiction. He can be over one thing while still struggling with the other. That's not a contradiction, it's also not repetitive. BECAUSE HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING. Now if the article would have been about how Not Afraid sounds like a therapy session put into song, okay...But as it stands it's bullshit.

Sorry for writing a pretentious essay to answer another pretentious essay. I'm a literature student, we can't help ourselves.

ETA: And Eminem also isn't talking down to people in his songs, always out to prove how bored and cool and above it all he is. He's engaged in his music so I'm engaged in his music. But IMO that's another strike against him in some circles.