Harsh words. Am I a worse person because I enjoy his music for the pop-rap that it is? Or should I be angry at it? Should I thrust away any respect I may have for the Eminem machine and diss him for being evil, corporate, commercial and the Britany Spears of angry white-guy rap?
Eminem may have been something a while ago, something original, something 'live', but he's become part of the record companies profile. The new thing. ARIA informs me that "Urban" is the new style. The next big money spinner. Eminem reminds me of what Korn has become. He reminds me massively of Korn actually.
I like the cut up beats, I like the rapping style, I laugh at the whole joke of it all while also being a part of it. Heath worries that even though we are intelligent enough to see through his faint gladwrap thin disguise and see the joke, the majority of his audience (young teenage boys?) won't see the joke.
For some reason I just can't bring myself to care about that chunk of society. As far as I'm concerned most young teenage boys should be locked up in camps until they're ready to respect the world, funking little racist, homophobic, sexist biggot scum.
Harsh words from a previously tortured geek (and reformed homophobe/racist/sexist/bigot scum).
From where I am now in society I feel that people grow up... but I hang out with a different set of people now. People I get on with. When one of my friends says something stupid I tell them so.
How do I know all those funking little teenages arn't still out there, but all grown up. Maybe they're cops? Maybe they're judges? Maybe they work at McDonalds? Maybe they're reading this and now they're out to get me?
Oh shit.