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[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thank you for the reminder to go listen to his new album! Skimmed a few articles that say it's outstanding.

Edit: I'm back after a full listen through, start to finish. What an absolute banger of an album! The Best Eminem. Feels like a short time machine journey to the early 2000s but with modern references. Now I understand why at the end of the meme it's all angry faces, lmao.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 months ago

I'm unlikely to listen to the whole album. To be honest I'm unlikely to listen to any of it.

With that in mind, care to explain this joke that clearly wasn't aimed at me?

[-] EddieTee77@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

The concept album is Slim Shady is trying to get Eminem cancelled. The album is filled with typical Slim Shady comments and jokes from the older years (modernized) that are now considered too offensive. Now, (I've heard) Gen Z and others who are listening to this stuff for the first time are getting confused and upset thinking he's a terrible person.

But, all the fans who wanted this got exactly what they wanted and seem to be genuinely happy with the album. It's those who are shocked at the lyrics that are upset. Anyone who's been a fan for long enough knows it's just for jokes.

So the joke is, Eminem gave fans what they asked for and then some of the younger people are thinking it's too offensive and are now upset.

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

The concept album is Slim Shady is trying to get Eminem cancelled.

That is genuinely hilarious.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The folks today are way to sensitive...Sure some stuff aged quite bad but man are some touchy.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Thank you, that helped a lot!

I'm still a bit confused about what it means to modernize an old joke, in this context, but I think I more or less got the picture

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

The following is an Eminem lyric that todays kids wouldn’t like

My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge That'll stab you in the head, whether you're a fag or lez Or a homosex, hermaph or a trans-a-vest Pants or dress, hate fags? The answer's yes

However I think it aged pretty well in that the subject matter is still topical

The next is one with dated references that would need to be updated

But I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate (Oh) And Dr. Dre said, "Slim Shady, you a basehead" (Uh-uh) "Then why's your face red? Man, you wasted" Well, since age 12, I felt like I'm someone else 'Cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt Got pissed off and ripped Pamela Lee's tits off And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross

[-] arality@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

and others who are listening to this stuff for the first time are getting confused and upset thinking he's a terrible person.

I'm not an Eminem fan. But didn't he beat his wife?

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