Untouchable features one of the two hot-button issues presented in the album, and it does so with as much tact, care and subtlety as a cedar baseball bat to the temples. Instead, Eminem does nothing with him at all and dominates the song with his monotone, uninteresting staccato raps. A feature is meant to add something to a song, mixing both artists’ talents and styles to create a song that is unique and diverse. It’s as if the features are only here to emphasize Eminem’s own flow, completely killing the point of even having features at all. The feature in this song, though, Phresher, an up-and-coming Internet famous rapper with actual musical talent, gets backseated and constrained into the chorus and bridges, while Eminem goes nuts on the verses and even drowns him out in sections where both of them are voicing. The beat is empty, with random drums and snares hastily forced onto the droning, tinnitus-inducing bass line. No catchiness to it whatsoever.Ĭhloraseptic is possibly the worst song on the entire record, mostly due to it’s lost potential. Very difficult to listen to and instantly temporary.
Outside of the chorus, the song is desolate, with Eminem using a modern trap beat that moves sluggishly through his choppy delivery and rhymes. It takes the concept of a spacey chorus and pumps it up to 11, with an incomprehensible bass line that has no beat to it, wavy and hazy riffs that melt horrifically into the background instrumentals and with vocals that sound distorted and fat. Already a wrinkly start.īelieve might actually have the singe worst chorus on the album. The lyrics are Eminem rapping du jour, with no style changes or new ideas. The flair is nothing new and it carries no weight. Beyonce does nothing other than sing the chorus, which will be a constant theme throughout this album.
Here though, the tone feels weak, flat and generic. It has that staple flowing and holy chorus interspersed with hard-hitting spits by the man himself. Instead, though, we get a rehash of a lot of songs from Eminem’s past, such as The Monster or Love The Way You Lie. 2016’s Lemonade is amongst her best, for example, so having her here might have been a positive. Learning that Beyonce was going to be the feature was rather optimistic, as she is a respectable musician, with decades in the industry and tons of banging, sticky tracks that have resonated over the years. Let’s start with the first track, Walk on Water. It’s so bad that we have to go track by track and pick apart why this record is as atrocious as it is.
I expected mediocre, but certainly not this. This is one pasty, ear-piercing trainwreck. And what do what we get?Ī complete insult of a record with jarring flow, petty and childish lyrics, tone-deafness, bad genre clashing, boring structure, and thin production. The magnum opus hinted at the end of The Marshall Mathers LP2.
The 77 minute long, 4 years in the making Revival LP. Pillars like Rihanna, Sia, and Nicki Minaj began to release songs with him, and after a while, the tone of Eminem’s music would change drastically from whence it began, affecting his style in albums like Relapse and Recovery.Īnd here we have the result. He began collaborating with some of the biggest names in the music industry at the time, and not just in the rap and hip hop community. With the gargantuan level of attention he was getting, though, Eminem decided to change. The aggressive and no-bullshit Slim Shady LP and The Eminem Show propelled him to stardom almost immediately, garnering him the reputation of a no nonsense bastard of rap, capable of launching verbal attacks of nuclear capacity. It was instead of watching a car crash in slow motion, more akin to an airplane clipping its wings on buildings and slowly but surely crashing in a glorious blaze of flames.Įminem’s discography has been filled with different styles and influences that span nearly 20 years. There have been worse records, but this one is so shocking in its existence, that I could not stop listening. So, this new Revival album is pretty securely the worst album I’ve listened to all the way this year. Accurate depiction of my reaction when listening to Revival