... it comes to no conclusion, just like the song it describes has no point.

You're right. It's so weird. He's pandering to everybody, but pandering to nobody. I listen to his old tracks and there's rhythm, and flow, and cadence, on top of the lyricism.

He hasn't exhibited any ability to create music with some feeling and soul since 2009. It's unfortunate considering his immeasurable talent.


>Easy to forget Eminem is 45-years old while walking around in
>the world thinking about Eminem as often as I do anymore, but
>"Walk on Water" is a great reminder of his age. If Jay-Z found
>a way to make 47 sound cool earlier this year, Eminem found a
>way to make 45 sound boring as hell. "Walk on Water" is mostly
>the sound of a man complaining about how talented he is, how
>famous he was, and how technically sound and financially
>successful his post-rehab material is because, and he's right,
>anybody with a platform is quick to point out how boring it
>all is to listen to. So here he gets Beyoncé to sing a
>completely pointless, exhausting hook that Eminem would never
>sound appropriate next to anyway and then asks Rick Rubin to
>make one of the least inspired tributes to the most boring
>aspects of artists like Carole King.
>
>The experience of listening to this song for the first time is
>about as perplexing as it possibly could be, and none of it
>feels particularly revelatory or exciting. Eminem works in a
>very strange space - after this song finished, Youtube moved
>to a video with 160,000,000+ views called "Guts Over Fear"
>that Eminem apparently created in 2014 with Sia. I'd never
>heard of it before. Eminem learned with "Fack" and Encore that
>there are a lot of people out in the world who've made up
>their minds on Eminem in the following way: he's perfect and
>there's not another rapper out there worth listening to as
>feverishly. So here's a song that doesn't really seem like
>it's for those people, or the BET Cypher people, or his old
>fans, or his new fans, or Beyoncé fans, or Rick Rubin fans,
>or fans of music in general.
>
>It'll probably be a huge success.
>
>
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