Jan 15, 2018

this is like Stan CSI s---. That 2nd verse is great though.

this is the most r-----ed post I've ever read

 

Jan 14, 2018

what the f--- .... is he talking about in the remix ? who are people that hate this song? It's top 7 since his comeback and top 3 on this album.

 

Jan 14, 2018

Both seem thematically similar and deal with a lot of the same issues regarding fame and the regrets that come along with his identity as a public figure. Along with that, they touch on the desire to be able to give Hailie a normal life away from the spotlight as a result of his lyrics and fame. He's very hard on himself in both songs. Here are some lyrics that I feel resonate with one another.

In Your Head
back then I put anything
Into the rhyme, whether it was sad, mad, happy or angry
I spit it, the mainstream, I hit it
Yay me, I did it! …Did what?
Hailie, baby, I didn't mean to make you eighty
Percent of what I rapped about
Maybe I shoulda did a better job at separating
Shady and entertaining from real life

Say Goodbye Hollywood
I'm trapped, if I could go back, I never woulda rapped
I sold my soul to the devil, I'll never get it back
I just wanna leave this game with level head intact
Imagine goin' from bein' a no one to seein' everything blow up, and all you did was just grow up emceein'
It's f---ing crazy, ‘cause all I wanted was to give Hailie
The life I never had
Instead I forced us to live alienated, so I'm saying
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In Your Head
I'm just drivin' as far as I can get
Away from these problems 'til all of my sorrows I forget
What's tomorrow like? 'Cause tonight I'm startin' life again
Get to the corner and stop, f--- am I goin'?
Besides psycho when I fantasize startin' my whole life over
Yeah right, oh and I might go and
Get hypnotized so I don't even recognize no one

Say Goodbye Hollywood
Bury my face in comic books, ‘cause I don't wanna look
At nothing, this world's too much, I've swallowed all I could
If I could swallow a bottle of Tylenol I would
And end it for good, just say goodbye to Hollywood
I probably should, these problems are pilin' all at once
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In Your Head
f--- it, I've done enough in this rap s---
Recovery brought me nothin' but back
To right where I was and perhaps
This coulda been my victory lap, if I wasn't on the verge of relapse

Say Goodbye Hollywood
I don't wanna quit, but s---, I feel like this is it
For me to have this much appeal like this is sick
This is not a game, this fame, in real life, this is sick
.
.
I never dreamt I'd get to the level that I'm at
This is wack, this is more than I ever coulda asked
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Obviously both songs stand on their own, but I listened to them back to back recently and I think they pair together well as a couplet. I don't think it was intentional or anything dumb like that, I'm just bored and this forum doesn't have that much activity so I figured I would throw it out there.

 

Jan 15, 2018

rip dolores o'riordan.

singer of the iyh sample died today

 

Jan 14, 2018

You must be on drugs or r-----ed. It's a dope song. Not top 7 since his comeback. f---.

 

Jan 15, 2018

Listen to how contrived, forced and awkward Eminem's chosen flow on IYH is compared to SGTH.

This thread is a valid representation of Marshall's loss in organic rapping and ear for what sounds good.

 

Jan 15, 2018

The flow of the first line here is f---ing impeccable
Its funny cause I feel like modern Eminem would have tried way too hard to ride out the "goin-from-bein" rhyme pattern until it got exhausted or forced. The fact that he only rhymes "goin-from-being/no one-to-seein/blow up/grow up emceein" and then drops the flow for a more natural sounding speech in "all i wanted was..." until the end makes the moment of brilliant flow so much more memorable, and it doesn't sacrifice the emotional impact of the subject matter in favor of lyrical miracles.

I actually think this is a prime example of what's wrong with current Eminem
although everyone already knew that

 

Jan 15, 2018

Flow of the 2ND verse makes me wanna s---t myself in the head.

 

Jan 15, 2018

It's pretty f---ing bad.

I swear some fans are so simplistic; ''HE RAPPED ABOUT HIS REAL LIFE OMG IT'S GENIUS!'', some people just love introspective s--- so much that no matter what it is they praise it. It's some of his laziest writing on the album, and it feels like he's desperately trying to claw at emotion which isn't there, same old s--- about fame and Hailie guilt, feels like he's babbling "yay me I did it, did what?", he's just saying a whole lot of nothing.

Definitely wouldn't call it top 7 comeback either. Not even top 20.

 

Jan 15, 2018

Then put this on repeat

 

Jan 16, 2018

castle is 6/10 compared to prime material

 

Jan 15, 2018

I don't remember the lyrics cause I deleted revival from my music player but I know in the second verse he's riding the drums and it's the most awkward flow ever that I can't even give a f--- what he's saying, it bothers my ears just trying to decipher it


blahblahblah, HAY LEE
I didn't mean to make u, EIGHT TY
percenta, blahblah IT MAY SEEM
somethinsomethin CRAY ZEE


God it's so awful and contrived. I really wanted to like the song because I really liked the sample and subject matter and the beat was okay too.

If I would rewrite my revival review right now I would probably lower this tracks rating I feel like I gave it a good score but in hindsight it's prolly due to the rest of the album being so bad

 

Jan 15, 2018

So I'm not the only one whose hair wasn't blown back by this song. Good to know not everyone's a bandwagon hopping autist who thinks not liking that s-----y overplayed Cranberries song is a "r-----ed" opinion.

 

Jan 15, 2018

 

Jan 15, 2018

80 is also an arbitrary number that he chose cause it rhymes

 

Jan 15, 2018

"back then I put anything
Into the rhyme, whether it was sad, mad, happy or angry
I spit it, the mainstream, I hit it
Yay me, I did it! …Did what?
Hailie, baby, I didn't mean to make you eighty
Percent of what I rapped about
Maybe I shoulda did a better job at separating
Shady and entertaining from real life"

Every f---ing time Em uses this rhyme scheme (Never Enough, We're back, etc) it's always the same s---: Hailie/baby/mainstream/crazy/shady
But what bothers me the most about this song -aside from the annoying screamy flow- is how he ends so many bars in the middle of sentences just to rhyme:
"Didn't mean to make you EIGHTYYY
......
percent of"

What this tells me is that he has no idea where he was going with the verse, and let the rhymes dictate the content. No one talks like this, imagine if this was talking to Hailie and he paused like that on "eighty". It would sound f---ing weird, like he's talking about her age or something.

Also, the fact that he rhymed Relapse with 'victory laps" twice within 2 songs of eachother is trash. And "sad, mad, happy or angry" is pointless filler

 

Jan 15, 2018

Really don’t care for this song at all.

Delivery is AWFUL.

 

Jan 15, 2018

Definitely way superior but In Your Head is acceptable for post 2010 imo