I'm Sorry Mama
According to the book, "Pastimes The Context of Contemporary Leisure", listening to music is something that most people in Western society do everyday. Therefore, since popular culture can be defined as, the most typical pastimes of a particular group, listening to music can be viewed as popular culture. Since the invention of the radio, listening to music has long been considered as popular culture in our society. On any given afternoon in America you can ride down the street and see teens, young adults, and even older adults driving down the street with their radios blaring. One reason for this is the constant change in people's likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, today's society likes controversy, and there are few musicians more controversial than Eminem. Eminem has quickly become one of pop cultures most scrutinized, criticized, commercialized, controversial, misunderstood, and influential artists. Chris Rock was almost right when he said, "something sure has changed in America when the best golfer is black and the best rapper is white." Let's face it, before this white rapper burst onto the US charts in 1999, seeing nearly one in five kids in school wearing orange t-shirts and bleaching their
Whether or not to love or hate Eminem is a sentiment best left to the individual listener. "Entertainment is danger, intertwine it with gangsters, in the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum, only you're unholy, only have one homey, only this gun, lonely, cuz don't anyone know me, nut everybody just feels like they can relate, I guess words are a motherfucker, they can be great, or they can be great, or even worse, they can teach hate, its like kids hang on every single statement we make, like they worship us, plus all the stores ship us platinum, now how the fuck did this metamorphosis happen? From standin' on corners and porches just rappin', yo havin' a fortune, no more kissin' ass, but then these critics crucify you, journalists try to burn youFans turn on you, attorney's all gonna turn it to, to get their hands on every dime you have, they want you to lose your mind every time you mad, so they can try to make you out to look like a loose canon, you need to spew, don't hesitate to produce air-guns, that's why these prosecutors wanna convict me, swiftly just to get me offa these streets quickly, but all their kids been listen'n to me religiouslySo I'm signing cds while police fingerprint me, they're for the judges daughter, but his grudge is against me, if I'm such a fuckin' menace, this shit doesn't make sense, Pete, it's all political, if my music is literal and I'm a criminal, how the fuck can I raise a little girl? I couldn't. Nonetheless, it seems that there are so many different sides to this man. " Keeping all of this in mind, Eminem will strike yet again on November 8, 2002, when his highly acclaimed movie, "8-Mile", hits theatres. However, there is one thing we do know about pop culture, and that is that it comes and goes in fads. Nearly every teenager in America has access to MTV. " During the title track from his movie, "Cleaning out my Closet", he states that he hates his mother more times than I have said I love my mother, and in the very next breath he says, "I'm sorry mama". " The sheer fact that Eminem went from being positive to negative in his music shows that he is just an act that makes money. Once more, teens are regarded as the main target of the film industry. His music conveys to listeners that he, "Just Don't Give a Fuck", a notion that apparently is true. you can rule the world, you can do anything, it's on you baby, cause you can be a star. Never the less, as I said earlier his autobiographical movie is slated to come out as soon as this November, which leaves one to wonder how true the sentiments he relates to his listeners actually are. By his own admission Eminem even conveys that sentiment in yet another one of his songs and more recently in the November 2002 article of Vibe magazine where he says, "The truth is that I can't rap forever. Eminem's words are obscene, offensive, angry, unjust, and often times revolting.
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