Celeb News: Pitchfork DRAGS Eminem

M.R.

Eminem's music has been unrelievedly awful now for a full decade. The tenor and quality of that awfulness have varied slightly—2004's Encore was awful in an embarrassed, shrugging, transparent way; Relapse's awfulness lay in its regressive puerility. On Recovery, he discovered a new and commercially successful kind of awful, mixing the ugly viscera of domestic abuse with power-ballad glucose.

The awfulness he settled on for last year's endless Marshall Mathers LP 2 seems to be his new default:
He's aggressively, thoroughly, eagerly awful, like a sociopathic A-student who thinks he's figured out exactly what you are looking for.
In this case, it's snarling syllables and endless vitriol.

These days, Eminem raps in a near-constant shout, with every line escalating into rage spittle that erases all tension or continuity or emotional impact. In his will to annihilate, he's also abandoned all claims to sense.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...ists-shady-xv/

LionH3art

LP 2 was awful tho

LilKim

gueranegra

Probably upset by his Lana diss. (Let's be honest they love her). And they obviously hate his music. To say it's all bad and for the last decade

. That's an opinion not a fact. Also Encore >>>> most of today's (commercial/mainstream) rap albums, pitchfork doesn't really know **** about hip hop. Nor do they acknowledge that he writes and produces most of his **** himself while the majority of his peers go to ghost writers and the same producers.

jose168

It's true. He's been awful for quite a while

Espresso

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Originally posted by gueranegra

Probably upset by his Lana diss. (Let's be honest they love her). And they obviously hate his music. To say its all bad and for the last decade

. That's an opinion not a fact.

They gave his early albums great scores tho.

Vulps

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Originally posted by gueranegra

Probably upset by his Lana diss. (Let's be honest they love her). And they obviously hate his music. To say its all bad and for the last decade

. That's an opinion not a fact.

And all reviews are opinions, so stating that was a bit redundant.

They didn't lie though. It's been ages since he's released anything impressive.

TRF.

Not a single lie spotted.

Honestly, TRF.

M.R.

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Originally posted by gueranegra

Probably upset by his Lana diss. (Let's be honest they love her). And they obviously hate his music. To say its all bad and for the last decade

. That's an opinion not a fact.

His last good album was released in 2000 though.

Brando

Not them basically saying almost exactly what I said yesterday:

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He put out a lot of outstanding material in the past, but I haven't heard a single good song of his since 2004

I can't help but agree with them. His music has been godawful for about a decade now.
Never seen a score this low from them tho...

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Originally posted by gueranegra

Probably upset by his Lana diss. (Let's be honest they love her). And they obviously hate his music. To say its all bad and for the last decade

. That's an opinion not a fact.

Not when they dragged her debut album.

ultraviolento

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Originally posted by gueranegra

Probably upset by his Lana diss. (Let's be honest they love her). And they obviously hate his music. To say it's all bad and for the last decade

. That's an opinion not a fact. Also Encore >>>> most of today's (commercial/mainstream) rap albums, pitchfork doesn't really know **** about hip hop. Nor do they acknowledge that he writes and produces most of his **** himself while the majority of his peers go to ghost writers and the same producers.

They don't.

OT: a 2? Mess

V3$$3L.

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The frankness of the message is remarkable: We're stuck with him, an aging white man with nothing left to say gripping the biggest bullhorn in hip-hop.

Hoo LORD.

Pitchfork's writers really been ******** lately.

Cola.drinker

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Originally posted by M.R.

Eminem's music has been unrelievedly awful now for a full decade.

Mr.Fenty

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Originally posted by gueranegra

Probably upset by his Lana diss. (Let's be honest they love her). And they obviously hate his music. To say it's all bad and for the last decade

. That's an opinion not a fact. Also Encore >>>> most of today's (commercial/mainstream) rap albums, pitchfork doesn't really know **** about hip hop. Nor do they acknowledge that he writes and produces most of his **** himself while the majority of his peers go to ghost writers and the same producers.

Pitchfork about Born To Die

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For all of its coos about love and devotion, it's the album equivalent of a faked orgasm-- a collection of torch songs with no fire.

Cola.drinker

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Originally posted by Mr.Fenty

Pitchfork about Born To Die

Honestly its true about some tracks on BTD.

jhonyguy04

Most of his music is terrible. He thinks that he makes good music by rapping about assaulting women and gays.

gueranegra

I was being sarcastic about the Lana diss

. Sorry I didn't mention that.

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Originally posted by Espresso

They gave his early albums great scores tho.

True but they're leaving out the few gems he's released this last decade.

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Originally posted by Vulps

And all reviews are opinions, so stating that was a bit redundant.

They didn't lie though. It's been a while since he's really released anything impressive.

Yes but people tend to back up their reviews with more than just, it's all bad. I wanted them to point out their list of worst songs on each album. Hell even gaga had full paragraphs dragging each song off Artpop. I just feel like they don't like him so they don't care too much.

And I'm not saying he hasn't been up to par as of late. I'm just not throwing all of his stuff away like they are.

Edit: I love all his collabs with Royce da 5'9 : Rock City, Bad Meets Evil, Fast Lane, Welcome to Hell, etc. even that one song he did with Obie Trice that was used as a sample/intro to Without Me. That's what I mean about not throwing all his stuff out.

Brando

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Originally posted by gueranegra

True but they're leaving out the few gems he's released this last decade.

Like what? Love The Trash You Lie is not one of them for sure.

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Originally posted by gueranegra

Yes but people tend to back up their reviews with more than just, it's all bad. I wanted them to point out their list of worst songs on each album. Hell even gaga had full paragraphs dragging each song off Artpop. I just feel like they don't like him so they don't care too much.

And I'm not saying he hasn't been up to par as of late. I'm just not throwing all if his stuff away like they are.

Maybe you should read the whole review instead of an ATRL summary before making that comment?

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Or observe this string of logorrhea from "Right For Me": "Roses are violet, mollys are blue, lost in a ball of confusion it's all an illusion/ It's probably the shrooms I'm on, cuz I think I started hallucinating/ Cuz I just thought I heard Jay Electronica announce his new ****/ And all I could do was just follow the music and end up with Paula Abdul at Lollapalooza filling water balloons with nail polish remover." Could you even read all that without your eyes glazing over?

Dark Miracles

They better drag LTWYL.

velocity

did they lie tho?