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aggravated My hamburger was pretty good, as were my home-cut french fries and fat-free milk. But then my brother got home from school and started blasting Eminem, or should I say Marshall Mathers, as loud as possible. First of all, he has an iPod, as my parents got him one for X-Mas. He never uses it when he's at home. Apparently my brother doesn't know the meaning of "courtesy."
Second, Eminem is a vile pig and one of the worst artists I've ever seen-probably THE worst hip-hop rapper, although Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is in close competition for that title. Whenever I hear an Eminem song, it's about one of two things: Degrading women, or how much he hates his mother/girlfriend. Excuse me...I guess it's always about the SAME thing. He even wrote a song called "Ass Like That", which is totally sexist, yet the radio stations still play it. Do their female listeners even CARE? Marshall Mathers also wrote the most disgusting song I've ever heard, "Superman", where he openly admits that he only uses women for sex and is a TOTAL FRAUD. Why doesn't he just get some "groupies" or bone one of those skanks on the corner? There's no hope for those women at all, they'd be better off dead. I know I'd be happier simply reincarnating than having 11 STDs and spending my nights having several different insensitive men violate me. I wonder if that's why I find the concept of femdom so humurous and also erotic...but that's for another time, another rant.
The only place I can give Marshall Mathers is his anti-Bush song. Then again, it seems every celebrity is anti-Bush as a rule, unless they're Country stars or Kid Rock....another sexist pig.
I have homework to do. Until next time, cheers.
~Jenny
February 11 2006, 04:31:57 UTC 6 years ago
Of course many never grow out of it. As for the women that participate in that culture, I can offer no explanation. To be simply the receptacles of male sexuality does not strike me as very empowering.
Years ago there was some truly horrid LL Cool J track, in which some woman had the rather dubious honour of singing, "And doing it, and doing it and doing it , WOW." Anytime I saw it I would want to claw my own eyes out.
February 11 2006, 04:43:39 UTC 6 years ago
February 11 2006, 05:13:33 UTC 6 years ago
Sex is great. I'm all for it.
February 12 2006, 04:31:39 UTC 6 years ago
February 17 2006, 13:37:07 UTC 6 years ago
eminem
...take a second to listen/who you think this record is diss'n/that's a clip of a cipher in his masterful, lyrical, bare, raw and rich rap cleanin out my closet.
i'm not an expert, by any means, i just enjoy him. i've been listening since before "my name is" and i have to say, eminem is trying. he contradicts himself a lot, but i think he does it on purpose to let us all know that he is just as brainwashed in some ways as the majority of us are and that he is continuously searching for more truth than most people are comfortable knowing. he seeks the truth about himself, society, our nation, the world and the meaning of life.
yes, he sings about degrading women. he also sings about degrading men. and he sings about his own self-deprecation.
i would like to encourage you to listen a little deeper, learn the lyrics and you'll find yourself amazed by what is there to be read between the lines. there is so much more to eminem than what it seems. the poppy sensations that keep playing on radio stations aren't even the tip of the iceberg. he's more than what the males in his "chosen demographic" can even fathom, much less pronounce, regurgitate or even imitate. and in a subversive way, he's helping to re-program them. they don't even know it, most of those boys, but he's inside their minds asking the tough questions, pushing them to the brink of their masculinity and testing their morality.
give him another chance. a real chance.
*steps down from soapbox with a bit of a bashful blush and excuses self*
btw, it's nice to meet you!
peace,
s