I don’t have much to add that Dom and Zeus haven’t already articulated, and honestly, I feel bad heaping derision on Eminem. From 1999-2003, no one, save for Ghostface had a better run, but seeing as though this is a blog, and Eminem remains the last of the video stars, I’m obligated to toss off some half-baked opinions on what will likely consume terrestrial radio from now until the 4th of July.
Simultaneously, technically impressive and terminally pathetic, “We Made You,” distills the worst excesses of Family Guy and attempts to turn it into comedy. Humor relies on freshness and novelty, not attacking stale starlets who’ve already been mocked to death in the Perez Hilton news cycle. The world of the Internet moves too fast for stuff like this. If they cared in the first place, people stopped finding Jessica Simpson-Romo jokes funny 12 months ago. Eminem has become my weird, out-of-touch uncle, who tries to have conversations with me about what young people are into, but can only talk about The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand.
What’s fresh about this? What’s the point? Kim Kardashian has a big ass? Lindsay Lohan is a lesbian? Amy Winehouse does drugs? Why doesn’t he just draw coke boogers? If the jokes aren’t related to the plot, that’s because it doesn’t have one.
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MP3: Eminem-“We Made You” (Left-Click)
