#New darkness album series#

They said that they hated the awake me / I lose the rage, I’m too tame - I get it back, they say I’m too angry Once I was played in rotation / at every radio station / They said I’m lyrically amazing but I have nothing to sayīut then when I put out Revival and I had something to say In conjunction with the rest of the album, it’s jarring - though as always, Eminem’s character heaps as much of that scorn and loathing upon himself.Įminem also keeps up his long tradition of commenting on his divisive critical reputation, with an opening track, “Premonition,” that references his view that he just can’t catch a break from the critics: Though the album overall doesn’t feature nearly as much misogyny (or, thankfully, any of the homophobic slurs Eminem has been justly scorned for in the past), a late track, “Farewell,” heaps a litany of deadpan sexist scorn on its object.

#New darkness album series#

The end of the album feels a little more like old-school Eminem, canvassing the usual series of beefs and responses to diss tracks.

The title and cover art for eminem's new album ‘music to be murdered by’ were modeled after iconic filmmaker alfred hitchcock's 1958 album of the same name /HmrhB29EJv- Genius January 17, 2020 The accompanying music video further reenacts the Las Vegas shooter’s point of view (but not graphically) and ends with a call to register to vote to “help change gun laws in America.” The track briefly includes reportedly recreated audio of gunfire and screaming crowds, and ends with an overlay of real news footage from the litany of mass shootings that have happened since the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. Finger on the trigger, but I’m a licensed owner / with no prior convictions, so loss, the sky’s the limit I got ammo for all the hecklers, I’m armed to the teeth.

The motives of the Las Vegas shooter remain a mystery, but in “Darkness,” Eminem paints a picture of an isolated man with mental illness, “loathing in Las Vegas” but emboldened by the failure of US gun control legislation: The breakout track from the 20-song album is “ Darkness,” a harrowing, disturbing takedown of gun violence, framed through the point of view of the perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, one of the worst mass shootings in modern US history. How well Eminem fulfills that promise is already a matter of heated debate - just as it was with his 2018 surprise album, Kamikaze - but there’s no denying Marshall Mathers makes an impact: Within 12 hours of its release, the album was reportedly charting at No. Eminem has continued his recent tradition of surprising fans with new album drops: Music to Be Murdered By, released Friday, is both a Hitchcock reference and a promise from the rap diva to slay.