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Eminem’s New Video Shows Heartbreak of Casual Sex and Abortion
Newsbusters ^ | Feb 15, 2018 | Katie Yoder

Posted on 02/15/2018 8:05:59 PM PST by Morgana

While many in Hollywood support and even praise abortion, one rapper’s new music video is breaking with the trend to stress the tragedy of abortion.

On Valentine’s Day, Eminem released the music video for his song, “River.” The nearly seven-minute video came as a part of the 45-year-old’s Revival album released Dec. 15. The footage revealed the heartbreak of a couple who have an affair and the pain of losing a “little one” in abortion. Unlike the song itself, the video captured the couple’s fight over whether or not to keep their baby.

In December, MRC Culture writer Corinne Weaver broke the story of the song about “a detailed confession of an affair, an abortion, and the regret that came after.” The verses tell of a married woman, Suzanne, cheating with Eminem for revenge on her husband. But after their “one-night stand” turns into a “two-night stand” she becomes pregnant.

“I made you terminate my baby,” Eminem regretfully says. And in the refrain, Ed Sheeran sings to the lost child, “Well, little one / I don't want to admit to something.” But it’s only in his last refrain that Eminem says what that “something” is: “I’m sorry, I f***** up.”

The new music video added more to the story. Around the 4:30 mark, it showed the reaction of Eminem (or a character played by him) when Suzanne breaks the news that she’s pregnant.

“Are you f****** kidding me?” Eminem responds, furious. “I can’t have a kid, I’ve already told – we’ve already talked about this.”

But Suzanne hopes there’s a reason for them to keep their unborn child. “Maybe this was supposed to happen for us,” she urges. “Maybe there’s something more between us than just sex.”

He disagrees.“Hold on,” he pushes back. “You’re saying ‘us’ as in like, we’re together, together. But I thought we were just hanging out.”

As the fight escalates, Suzanne scolds him for being “selfish” and “choosing you over another f******* life.” “You’re involved in this too, and you need to take responsibility for your own f****** actions,” she yells.

When he argues that “You told me you couldn’t get pregnant” she responds, “Anyone can get pregnant when you push your dick in me … You and me did it together.”

In almost a whisper, Eminem ends the fight saying, “We’re not keeping this baby.”

As the song finishes, Eminem reveals that he wrote River because, “I felt like I needed to get [something] off my chest.”

While there are countless stories of abortion and regret, the media rarely tell them.

**MUSIC VIDEO ON LINK**


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: abortion; eminem; prolife

1 posted on 02/15/2018 8:06:00 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Who?

Oh yeah. The guy Trump ignored.


2 posted on 02/15/2018 8:24:49 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Morgana

I will choose to see this as a good thing for innocent babies. I haven’t watched the video yet, not a huge Eminem fan, but I do like Sheeran.


3 posted on 02/15/2018 8:26:52 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Morgana

Say what you want about Eminem, but he is arguably the best rapper of all time. Yeah, I know you meanie-old FReepers hate rap (but conveniently disregard the rock stars who engaged in underage teen orgies, excessive alcohol and drugs, band breakups, and suicides), so spare me your rap is cRap mumbo-jumbo. Eminem - a white guy at that - managed to dominate what was and still is an all-black music genre. That’s the equivalent of being Larry Bird or Tom Brady.


4 posted on 02/15/2018 8:40:43 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

It is silly to try to conflate the quality of the art with the lifestyle of the artist.


5 posted on 02/15/2018 8:49:41 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: bigbob

You got me there.


6 posted on 02/15/2018 8:57:21 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: Morgana

Oh...a wrapper did a video...bout regret and shi...whooooo...im impressed....hes only bout 6000 years late....


7 posted on 02/15/2018 10:02:03 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
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To: Morgana

What does an enema have to do with whatever this is?


8 posted on 02/15/2018 10:03:10 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Bad morality sometimes has a way of eventually slapping itself in the face.


9 posted on 02/15/2018 10:26:15 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Latest rap releases from the past few weeks:

“Pray for Me” The Weeknd ft. Kendrick Lamar
“God’s Plan” Drake

Now “River” by Eminem

hmm...interesting themes...


10 posted on 02/15/2018 10:51:55 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: Morgana

The Trump election unleashed a wave of reflection/revelation and an era of repentance.

Think of the Weinstein fallout alone.

God is at work!


11 posted on 02/15/2018 10:55:50 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: GoldenState_Rose
Think of the Weinstein fallout alone.

Started at the NYTs. (!)

12 posted on 02/16/2018 12:14:17 AM PST by Does so (Text a message mentioning the Florida town of Islamorada--funny notification by ear...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

His movie (8 Mile) was actually quite powerful. A sobering portrait of how our cities have been destroyed.


13 posted on 02/16/2018 7:15:27 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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