Dec 20, 2020 The album gets off to an inauspicious start with “Black Magic,” a dreary murder ballad with the requisite Skylar Grey hook and the same tired splatter-movie shock lines. Things perk up with “Alfred’s Theme,” which nods to the album’s Hitchcockian premise by sampling “Funeral March of a Marionette” and making a painfully predictable play on the name “Hitchcock,” and from there on out, the record seesaws between rapid-fire dirty puns and show-offy rhyme displays
Dec 20, 2020 "Your on a window shopping spree, b----,you probably go broke at the dollar tree"...That cold tho
Dec 20, 2020 Sorry https://variety.com/2020/music/revi...e-murdered-by-side-b-album-review-1234866855/
Dec 20, 2020 We have heard all of these back stories and justifications before, to be fair. At 48 years old, Marshall Mathers is having to address the fact “that 5-0’s startin’ to creep up on me like a patrol car / I’ll be an old fart.” Favourite B---h finds him hankering nostalgically for the time when he was the rap world’s chosen leading man, whilst contemporary star Ty Dolla $ign rap-sings a mumbly auto-tuned chorus in a modern hip-hop style that Eminem himself has sometimes disparaged. “Would you marry me again?” Eminem asks his metaphorical rap love as he reminisces about hip-hop history, before acknowledging with a hint of sadness “it’ll never be the same.” It is a clever conceit even as it emphasises that this is not an album likely to win over new fans. On the same track Eminem flirts with the kind of controversy that has made him a reviled pariah to so many, comparing himself to terrorist outrages: “I know nothing is funny 'bout the Manchester bombing / But we got somеthing in common, both of us are alarmin' / Foul, disgusting, and awful, so repugnant and ugly / I could give the Boston Marathon a run for its money.” These are the kind of remarks that make Eminem unpalatable to many. “They won’t stop til they cancel me” he notes on Tone Deaf, whilst continuing to give his detractors plenty of motivation and ammunition to do so. Although there is less out and out homicide on offer here than its gory predecessor, there are two tracks of an unpleasantly misogynistic bent (Guns Blazing and She Loves Me), a big mid-tempo anthem about a violently murderous relationship (Black Magic) and a lot of off-colour jokes that would make a Seventies stand-up comic cringe (“Call her Cinderella, she loves balls”).
Dec 20, 2020 When a review is titled 'Remains in comfort zone" usually means the reviewer did the same
Dec 20, 2020 The outside shot of gnat is so f---ing genius, eminem getting shot by the man whose girl eminem flirted with
Dec 20, 2020 It's a shame that he finally hits his stride but now with the covid climate his sales are down. People just arnt in the mood I guess.
Dec 20, 2020 Sales would go up, up, up if he just showed his face. Insightful interviews about the whole process of creating MTBMB A and B. Maybe some private footage. Live performances. Problem is, he isn't interested in doing anything. He wants the album to sell by itself.
Dec 20, 2020 I don’t think he raps for sales at this point. What’s a hermit with 200 mil need money for.
Dec 20, 2020 And he can make money else where if he needed to. I bet he could get a shady/beats headphone easy.
Dec 20, 2020 No. Eminem literally is just still in his comfort zone. I agree with that sentiment completely as it pertains to this album.
