Sla wrote:Graphic wrote:I love the song, but the thing about Spacebound as a single is that there are going to be lots and lots of 13 year old girls posting the lyrics as their Facebook statuses.
Probably right, but are you going to visit tons of those profiles? So it doesn't really matter ...
Graphic wrote:Sure, it just gets more people into Eminem, but it does alter his image even more than it's already been altered by Recovery.
How did
Recovery alter his image in your opinion? And after
Encore and
Relapse really in a negative manner?
I didn't say it had to be in a negative way—in fact, I don't think it's negative. It's just different.
Eminem, up until 2010, hadn't been...well, it's hard to find a term that doesn't have a negative connotation. On Relapse, he was still saying things to shock people, but whether or not people consider that to be successful is another story. Recovery has more songs that have a positive or more radio/pop-friendly vibe (Not Afraid, Spacebound). I'm not saying that it's bad, nor am I saying that it's particularly good—it's just different.
I really don't know how to phrase it without sounding negative. Pre-Recovery, nobody would have expected Eminem to come out with a song with lyrics like Spacebound's. I guess that's what I'm really getting at.