EminemBase wrote:InsaneTRex94 wrote:Still wish he'd release a 5-song EP or something small every year that he doesn't release an album or something...just to keep his buzz.
I think being a recluse keeps a bigger buzz.
It makes any appearance or official release from him more of an event, more special, more talked about (as it's less typical / a surprise) and worth more.
(the concept of scarcity is what gives things a perceptive value. Diamonds aren't rare, but they're made rare by management, which is what gives them the value. Common / easily obtainable things are not valuable. Em and his team treat his image and material like diamonds, hence why his name, image and material still carries so much weight to this day.)
I believe his and Paul's management of his image and 'mystique' and the relative rarity of his music in such a saturated world is part of the reason he still sells what he does, and why such hype and talk precedes every album, feature or every sniffle.
But it shouldn't be about keeping a buzz anyway. It should be about making quality art, if and when the inspiration permits. Doing music for the sake of it results in
Encore.
'Diamonds are made rare by their management which gives them value'. I think it's more the nature of the diamond, being an allotrope of carbon, it has superlative physical qualities: it's extremely hard and relatively unreactive. Put simply, if a diamond wasn't a diamond it wouldn't be so valuable, in the similar way that Gold's properties elevate it above other elements. It's the diamond that causes the management systems to surround it, not the other way around.
Yes his work is treated like something precious, but for this reason anything he releases is scrutinised to ridiculous lengths. If it takes so long to put something out, it has to be perfect. And when it isn't it does a lot more damage than a mini EP full of good songs would do.
Em would do a lot better for himself keeping his fans in the loop on his music. Rewind back to the early 2000's, and he was jumping on mixtapes and releases. Yet the quality never really dropped. I'd say the sheer quantity of what he put out undermined the way in which it was viewed at the time, but I would be happy to argue that a feature like What The Beat is better than any feature he's been on post-comeback. And that track was most likely composed and finished in a very short space of time (he can't even remember doing it).
At the moment Em is always in the studio working, yet has this changed? He has the material to release about three albums, so at the moment any album release is purely reliant on his opinions as an artist. And he is an artist, so he will only want to release something when he sees a series of work that comes together beautifully.
But releasing music for the sake of it isn't always going to result in Encore. As I said above, this work-schedule was very much the nature of his opening years in the public eye. Drugs and music for the sake of it = Encore.
