Friday, 12 November, 2004
Obligatory
Here are those Encore reviews. Our take is below.
MSNBC: Eminem's new CD delivers
Philadelphia Inquirer: Does Eminem still matter?
Miami Herald: C'mon Slim, that's enough now
Washington Post: More Rap, Less Bite
USA Today: Encore deserves an ovation
The Scotsman: All rapped up in himself
The Guardian: Funny peculiar
Belfast Telegraph: An entirely new direction
Winnipeg Sun: More Eminem, please
Boston Daily Herald: Eminem goes stale
Cleveland Plain Dealer: More of the same
Fort Worth Star-Telegram: No need to cheer
The last paragraph of that Star-Telegram is hysterical. At least to us. Other reviews were posted earlier here.
A couple things inexplicably left out of our review (sure to be added before anything becomes official): the lyrics of Encore that the Fort Worth writer hints at and the message on the CD itself. "To my family & all my friends - thank you for everything. I will always love you. To my fans. I'm sorry. Marshall."
Erm. What more can he say?
Update I... minutes later...
Pitchfork gives it a 6.5
As much as it seems no one wants to acknowledge the explicit idea, it does seem most of these reviews are playing into Mathers' hands - concluding that Eminem has run out of ideas and is in desperate need of a new direction. And maybe the rest - the fawning and apparently deaf - are the aristocrats he slays at album's end.
Fuck. We're thinking about this way too much...
Update II... several more minutes later...
Metacritic has Encore standing at 48. Though a big fat goose egg from Stylus drags that number down.
Here are those Encore reviews. Our take is below.
MSNBC: Eminem's new CD delivers
Philadelphia Inquirer: Does Eminem still matter?
Miami Herald: C'mon Slim, that's enough now
Washington Post: More Rap, Less Bite
USA Today: Encore deserves an ovation
The Scotsman: All rapped up in himself
The Guardian: Funny peculiar
Belfast Telegraph: An entirely new direction
Winnipeg Sun: More Eminem, please
Boston Daily Herald: Eminem goes stale
Cleveland Plain Dealer: More of the same
Fort Worth Star-Telegram: No need to cheer
The last paragraph of that Star-Telegram is hysterical. At least to us. Other reviews were posted earlier here.
A couple things inexplicably left out of our review (sure to be added before anything becomes official): the lyrics of Encore that the Fort Worth writer hints at and the message on the CD itself. "To my family & all my friends - thank you for everything. I will always love you. To my fans. I'm sorry. Marshall."
Erm. What more can he say?
Update I... minutes later...
Pitchfork gives it a 6.5
As much as it seems no one wants to acknowledge the explicit idea, it does seem most of these reviews are playing into Mathers' hands - concluding that Eminem has run out of ideas and is in desperate need of a new direction. And maybe the rest - the fawning and apparently deaf - are the aristocrats he slays at album's end.
Fuck. We're thinking about this way too much...
Update II... several more minutes later...
Metacritic has Encore standing at 48. Though a big fat goose egg from Stylus drags that number down.
// posted by Aaron @ 2:24:00 PM
