EminemBase wrote:Just watched it... I think it was a good performance. Didn't find his movements cringing at all here.
But this just reminds me how he's lost his fucking mind to have put this on an album titled MMLP2... what a fucking disgrace. His verses are pretty boss (and performed excellently here) and the song is enjoyable overall... this would have made a stonking Recovery single... but MMLP2?... NO. And not even just because it's MMLP2 but to be so similar to the prior album - on a new album? Feels so out of place. And such a disservice to the title/concept.
New Em has no respect for sound continuity. Just variety. At any cost.
PS. Em definitely wasn't cringing/awkward here. I wouldn't confuse hand stiffness with awkwardness... he's always used his hands in that way, and I think he's intentionally trying to display an intensity in his movements with tracks like this... but it's definitely a practiced thing with him now -because I saw him live myself and he looked possibly more awkward than in 2010... where as on live MMLP2 performances for TV Shows he looked rhythmic and cool as fuck; like the ''Berzerk'' SNL performance.
But even his melodic leg stomping at the end with Rihanna looked cool here, where as anything he tried to pull off in 010/11 regarding anything bar rapping just looked wrong/embarrassing.
Exactly what i'm thinking, thanks for being the GOAT EmBase.
