This isn't a response to an Em diss, but I still thought it was relatively relevent, and it's interesting. Tori Amos on her cover of '97 Bonnie & Clyde:
"'Bonnie & Clyde' is a song that depicts domestic violence very accurately, right on the money," Amos said. "I did not align with the character that he represents. There was one person who definitely wasn't dancing to this thing, and that's the woman in the trunk. And she spoke to me. ... [She] grabbed me by the hand and said, 'You need to hear this how I heard it.'"
"Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture," Amos said. "If you're singing songs that are about cutting women up, usually these guys are tapping into an unconscious male rage that is real, that's existing — they're just able to harness it. So to shut them up isn't the answer. They're a gauge; they're showing you what's really happening in the psyche of a lot of people."
"I've always found it fascinating how men say things and how women hear them," she said in a press release from Atlantic Records. "Words can wound and words can heal, and both are included on the album." When she first heard "97' Bonnie & Clyde," "the scariest thing was ... the realization that people are getting into the music and grooving along to a song about a man who is butchering his wife," Amos said.
"So half the world is dancing to this, oblivious, with blood on their sneakers. But when you talk about killing your wife, you don't get to control whom she becomes friends with after she's dead. She had to have a voice."
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Adam Lambert responded to the line on Elevator about him:
"Wow eminem mentioned me in a song?! I must be doin something right!? Even if he used the f word.... Whtev."
A few minutes later, he even seemed to concede the last part:
"Oh he says "fake it" my bad," he tweeted.
Aaand Nsync:
First,
Chris Kirkpatrick on the Em/Moby "beef", if you could call it that.
The 'NSYNC singer, for whom Eminem prescribes a whoopin' in "Without Me," said the solution to the Em/ Moby beef that flared up at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards is for the two of them to forget about each other and focus on him instead.
"I was [seated] in between them," Kirkpatrick said backstage afterward. "I just was quiet, I didn't want to get involved."
The uncomfortable face-off occurred while Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was interviewing Moby in the audience and started talking about the electronic artist's well-known feud with the Detroit rapper. As Triumph tried to take the issue to Eminem, Em and fellow rappers Obie Trice and Proof made it clear they wouldn't be talking to the hand (puppet).
"I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?" Kirkpatrick said. "They should just make fun of me."
Justin Timberlake:
Do you own any Eminem CDs? Uh huh. I like Eminem. I have all of them. I heard we're sought out in the new D12 album. So that's exciting. Free press. [
I didn't know he had all Em's CDs.]
Who would you like as a sixth member of 'N Sync? Eminem. He would totally fit in with us. [lol ouch]
More Chris Kirkpatrick:
Eminem has trashed you guys; what do you think about that? Eminem is one of my favourite artists. I'm a huge Eminem fan. I hope he doesn't really hate us. He may have personal problems and personal issues, but that's what people enjoy. They want people that are real. And he's real.
Joey Fatone:
Eminem has said some nasty things about you. Do you own any of his CDs? Yeah.
Which one?
The one he says all the crap about us. The music's cool. I like it a lot actually. People always tend to be like, "Oh Eminem's saying this, he's saying that ..." Hey, free promotion for us.
Lance Bass:
What celebrity would you be scared to meet?
I don't think I'd be scared to meet anybody. There are people I don't care to meet.
Such as?
Eminem.
He's trashed you in his songs. Do you own his CDs?
No, I don't. Actually he's a really talented guy. I just think he has issues that should be worked out. I think it's really a whole fake thing.
JC Chasez:
Do you own any Eminem CDs?
Actually, I don't. But I have listened to the record. I have fun listening to it in a scary way. I haven't gotten around to buying it.
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