Jan 17, 2020 Pretty bad. There are a couple songs that work for me but the length is unforgiving and it tries to go in too many directions at once.
Jan 17, 2020 The length is a bad thing I agree. Especially in the middle.. But in 2020 that doesn't matter since u can simply cut this down to like 10-12 songs and have a solid project. I know its not a fair way to judge an album, u have to rate all of it, but the way I listen to music (same way u and rapmusik discussed it) it kinda is what it is.
Jan 17, 2020 If you’re rating an album you gotta rate all of it. Just because streaming exists and you can make playlists (by that logic albums haven’t mattered since mp3s existed because you could just make a playlist) doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take the whole album into account. It’s fine if you don’t listen to albums front to back but he still put out this album as it is and it should be judged as such. Cutting it down to 10-12 songs wouldn’t make it a solid project to me regardless and even it did that still means half the album is bad...which is not a very good ratio lol.
Jan 17, 2020 That is what I meant w its not fair to do that, and I won't, not disagreeing w u here. All I'm saying is that because I listen more to individual songs and u (almost) only to full albums its easier for me to appreciate this album for its 10 songs I really like. I just add them to my playlist like hey 10 new songs to listen to and u got an album where u don't even like half so its obvious you appreciate it a lot less. U know what I mean? Again not saying it should affect the rating, just the perspective of how we feel about albums like this is different.
Jan 17, 2020 Nah I get that, I can appreciate albums with a handful of songs I like...but to me that's more appreciating individual songs than an album itself. The parts can be greater than the whole, but that can often mean that the whole itself isn't that great.
Jan 17, 2020 Exactly. Very true indeed. But that is the issue I have w most (critic) reviews, not just eminem records btw. Sometimes an album has a handful of pretty great songs but in a review mostly the album gets viewed as a whole. So in this case the album will mostly be trashed because as a whole it is kind of a let down to some, and its messy, but the great songs will be dismissed / given no attention at all. This is why I always love TBT reviews along w an overall view, so the 'parts' as u name it also receive the appreciation they deserve instead of just looking at the whole thing. Same goes for bad songs on good albums btw. U know what I mean?
Jan 17, 2020 I took off early but little bro won’t be here for 4 hours. Cool reading the comments though a couple posts got me stoked because usually I enjoy Eminem music more then the people on this forum.. so the fact I seen a few this and that song is on Eminem Show levels has got me pretty excited to hear this.
Jan 17, 2020 I gave it a 3. It's all over the place and uninteresting. This feels like the worst Eminem album.
Jan 17, 2020 naw man like you said we will be listening to Eminem and jacking eachother off later one thing I’m noticing is there are two covers for this album and I saw someone say there is three.. if there was a clue for more coming I would say that’s a pretty direct hit.
Jan 17, 2020 Eminem's biggest problem imo. Listening to him becomes too much of a monotonous grind. There's not a song that i'd call outright bad but the delivery while not bad gets stale. It's like he ruins the experience by trying too hard.
Jan 17, 2020 Going for 7 ... Might change, it's so early. Anything 7 or up is a blessing, given he's 46 or 47. Super f---ing glad he still makes music.