Eminem's music has ALWAYS been pointed towards teenagers.

[Blu]

Let us just get this straight. From Eminem's diabolical beginnings, The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP's demographic were rebellious teens, the type that cannot accept their lives nor parents. It is pretty obvious too. Songs like "The Way I Am", "Criminal", "Rock Bottom", "If I Had", "Just Don't Give A Fuck" and "Still Don't Give A Fuck" both exemplify the rebellious nature Eminem shared with the teens of the nation.


These kind of kids, right?

So what happened? With the release of The Eminem Show, Eminem took a more mature approach with his audience. However, his rebellious nature was still there, and was still directed at the teenage demographic. It was mostly evident in songs like "Cleanin' Out My Closet" and "White America". Otherwise, the album was the most mature we have seen from Eminem, right?

Nope. With the release of Relapse in 2009, Eminem had realized that people were no longer eating up the shock value, and was only favored by a few. It was also brought upon him that the very teenagers that loved his first albums, were now adults! With the realization that shock value was no longer the route to use, he soon turned back to his mature audience and released Recovery a year later.



So why do people say Eminem is aiming at teenagers NOW if he has been aiming at them his whole career? Well, it's because those teens of yesteryear were MUCH more different than the teens of today.


You're kidding, right?

WELL, that is all I have to say. Good day to you all.

[limea]

I agree with you entirely.

edit: I guess I don't

[dshady89]

No, you're not smart for making these types of threads.

No, you're last conclusion on Recovery is not true.

No, go look or listen at the lyrics at Recovery and come back to apologize.

"He soon turned back to his mature audience and released Recovery a year later." - Wow, just wow.

[Blu]

No, you're not smart for making these types of threads.

No, you're last conclusion on Recovery is not true.

No, go look or listen at the lyrics at Recovery and come back to apologize.

"He soon turned back to his mature audience and released Recovery a year later." - Wow, just wow.

[dshady89]

You can get the dick, just call me the ballsack, I'm nuts
Michael Vick in this bitch, dog fall back you mutts
Fuck your worms, you never seen such a sick puppy
Fuck it a sick duck, I want my duck sick mummy
And my nuts, licked, gobble 'em up trick, yummy
Bitch you don't fucking think I know that you suck dick dummy?
You'll get your butt kicked, fuck all that love shit honey
Yeah I laugh when I call you a slut, it's funny!
Shawty dance while I diss you to the beat, fuck the words
You don't listen to 'em anyway, yeah struck a nerve sucker
Motherfucker might as well let my lips pucker
Like Elton John, cause I'm just a mean cock sucker
This shit is on, cause you went and pissed me off
Now I'm shitting and pissing on everybody
Give a fuck if it's right or wrong
So buck the Buddha, light a bong
But take a look at mariah the next time I inspire you to write a song, c'mon

[dshady89]

I stuck my dick in this game like a rapist
They call me Slim Roethlisberger
I go bezerker than a fed-up post-office worker
I'm Erkel with a Mossberg
I'm pissed off get murdered
Like someone took a ketchup squirter
Squirted a frankfurter
For a gangster you shoulda shit your pants
When you saw the chainsaw get to waving
Like a terrible towel
I faced her around
But his fangs come out
Get your brains blown out
That's what I call blowing your mind
When I come back
Like nut on your spine
I'm a thumb tack
That you slept on son
Now here I come screaming attack like I just stepped on one
Low on the totem till he showed 'em
Defiance, giant scrotum



Edit: And the teenage girls on these videos 10 years ago are the same from today:

http://www.youtube.com/v/6daDm_rIdiU

[Blu]

Yo dude, you should not double post. Be sure to edit your original post.

*ahem*

It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me
Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you
So I could come back a brand new me, you helped see me through
And don't even realize what you did, believe me you
I been through the wringer, but they can do little to the middle finger
I think I got a tear in my eye, I feel like the king of
My world, haters can make like bees with no stingers, and drop dead
No more beef lingers, no more drama from now on, I promise
To focus solely on handling my responsibilities as a father
So I solemnly swear to always treat this roof
Like my daughters and raise it
You couldn't lift a single shingle on it
Cause the way I feel, I'm strong enough to go to the club
Or the corner pub and lift the whole liquor counter up
Cause I'm raising the bar, I shoot for the moon
But I'm too busy gazing at stars, I feel amazing

So I picked myself off the ground and fucking swam 'fore I drowned
Hit my bottom so hard I bounced twice, suffice, this time around
It's different, them last two albums didn't count
"Encore" I was on drugs, "Relapse" I was flushing 'em out
I've come to make it up to ya now, no more fucking around
I got something to prove to fans cause I feel like I let 'em down
So please accept my apology, I finally feel like I'm back to normal
I feel like me again, let me formally
Reintroduce myself to you for those of you who don't know
The new me's back to the old me and homie I don't show no
Signs of slowing up, oh and I'm blowing up all over
My life is no longer a movie but the show ain't over homos
I'm back with a vengeance homie, Weezy keep ya head up
T.I. keep ya head up, Kanye keep ya head up, don't let up
Just keep slaying 'em, rest in peace to DJ AM
Cause I know what it's like, I struggle with this shit every single day and um

Man if I could sing, I'd keep singing this song to my daughter
If I could hit the notes, I'd blow something as long as my father
To show her how I feel about her, how proud I am that I got her
God, I'm a daddy, I'm so glad that her mom didn't *want her*
Now you probably get this picture from my public persona
That I'mma pistol packing drug addict who bags on his mama
But I wanna just take this time out to be perfectly honest
Cause there's a lotta shit I keep bottled that hurts deep inside of my soul
And just know that I grow colder the older I grow
This boulder on my shoulder gets heavy and harder to hold
And this load is like the weight of the world and I think my neck is breaking
Should I just give up or try to live up to these expectations?
Now look, I love my daughter more than life in itself
But I got a wife that's determined to make my life living hell
But I handle it well, given the circumstances I'm dealt
So many chances man, it's too bad, coulda had someone else
But the years that I've wasted is nothin to the tears that I've tasted
So here's what I'm facing, three felonies, six years of probation
I've went to jail for this woman, I've been to bat for this woman
I've taken bats to people's backs, bent over backwards for this woman
Man, I shoulda seen it coming, what'd I stick my penis up in?
Wouldn't have ripped the pre-nup up if I'da seen what she was fucking
But fuck it, it's over, there's no more reason to cry no more
I got my baby, baby the only lady that I adore, Hailie
So sayonara, try tommorrow, nice to know ya
Our baby's traveled back to the arms of her rightful owner
And suddenly it seems like my shoulder blades have just shifted
It's like the greatest gift you can get, the weight has been lifted

Let your hair down to the track, yeah kick on back
Boo!, the boogie monster of rap, yeah the man's back
With a plan to ambush this Bush administration
Mush the Senate's face and push this generation
Of kids to stand and fight for the right to say something you might not like
This white hot light that I'm under, no wonder I look so sunburnt
Oh no, I won't leave no stone unturned
Oh no, I won't leave, won't go nowhere
Do-si-do, oh, yo, ho, hello there
Oh yeah, don't think I won't go there
Go to the Beirut and do a show there
Yeah you laugh till your mothafuckin' ass gets drafted
While you're at band camp thinkin' the crap can't happen
Till you fuck around, get an Anthrax napkin
Inside a package wrapped in Saran wrap wrappin'
Open the plastic and then you stand back gaspin'
Fuckin' assassins hi-jackin' Amtracks, crashin'
All this terror, America demands action
Next thing you know you've got Uncle Sam's ass askin'
To join the army or what you'll do for their Navy
You just a baby gettin' recruited at eighteen
You're on a plane now, eatin' their food and their baked beans
I'm 28, they gonna take you 'fore they take me
Crazy insane or insane crazy?
When I say Hussein you say Shady
My views ain't changed still Inhumane, wait
Arraigned two days late, the date's today, hang me!

[Asche]

What do Eminem Show lyrics have to do with your interpretation of Recovery?

[limea]

Lol dshady89 shutting shit down. I think Em going a more mainstream route would have been more appropriate than saying mature route.

[Blu]

No, mature was the right word. Eminem has always been mainstream, so what is the point of using that word?

What do Eminem Show lyrics have to do with your interpretation of Recovery?

The Eminem Show and Recovery seem to be his most mature albums. Dshady tried to argue that Recovery is not because it contains one or two songs that have a Slim Shady vibe, where he missed the whole re-born, mature concept of the entire album.

[Asche]

Okay then, I agree that Recovery is obviously not aimed specifically at teenagers. That's silly. However, I wouldn't say that he was aiming at them all along, either. He was already in his mid to late twenties when he released those albums, so they could just as easily be for adults too. Although they certainly appealed to teenagers and kids!

I also disagree that teens were different then than they are now. People always think new generations suck because you don't identify with them anymore. But maybe I'm wrong about what you were implying.

Edit: 100 posts... it only took me like, a year.

[trinell05]

You wrote this thing out like a Cracked article with the little captions and all. Weird.

[flyingmonkey10]

not just teens, fucking everyone, music is for everyone
i know old people that listen to eminem, c'mon son

[Erowid]

I think that the title of this thread is more or less correct, tbh, but I think it's a bit of a truism. The fact is that no one takes popular music (and I'm not talking about "pop" music, I just mean like, current music-- not mozart or 100 year old bluegrass) as seriously as teenagers do. No one latches onto bands and singers and emotionally relates to music in the way a teenager does. Teenagers decide what's the next big thing, because they're the ones willing to progress. So it's not that Eminem is or was "teenager music" per se, it's just that ALL music is essentially teenager music. Since teenagers are the people who actually have strong opinions about music.

Ask me if this doesn't make sense. I'm tired. lol

[deaneedog]

Eminem is just terrible now, not entirely his fault as people still eat up his music so he thinks its still good.