All change as Eminem hailed as new Elvis

UK Times online ^ | Chris Ayres

[bradactor]

Since Eminem and Winona are both products of sixties parents thinking patterns, they should team up

[weikel]

I like Eminem and am going to see 8 mile eventually.

[MedicalMess]

I've seen a movie kind of like this... It was called Purple Rain. Where is Prince now?

[occam's chainsaw]

Breaking news??

[BradyLS]

Even Newsnight, CNN’s conservative current affairs ...

I knew the other shoe would drop before the article ended...

[11B3]

I'll stick to good old rock and roll, thank you.

[Uncle Meat]

I'll stick to good old rock and roll, thank you.

Amen to that.I'd love to slap that smug look off that punks face.I think he's a slimey little weasel and over rated to boot.I'm sick of [c]rap music and can't wait until it suffocates from all the overkill it gets.

[Woahhs]

I always find it hilarious when I recall how my grandparents always complained about rock and roll. "You can't even tell what they're saying."

Well, rappers have certainly solved that problem.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Hey, it's not easy to be a songwriter if your entire vocabulary is only about 400 words- half of them unprintable! Let's give the kid some credit here.

"No one ever went broke by underestimating the taste of the American public"- now where did I read that???

[goodnesswins]

"Eminem is, after all, a white man who took a black cultural product, in this case hip-hop, and sold it to a white audience, making hundreds of millions of dollars in the process."

Yeah....we call people like this scum.....WIGGERS. And, he's helping keep the blacks on the Plantation, and many whites too.

[Woahhs]

My wife wants to know how many of you have listened to his music - not just the tune, but the lyrics. She says he certainly speaks for a generation she can relate to.

Personally, I think he's the natural, logical progression of boomer parents that produce nothing if not casualties.

[Welsh Rabbit]

As much as I love Elvis, I wouldn't advise anyone to emulate his film career...

[Norman Arbuthnot]

Hey, it's not easy to be a songwriter if your entire vocabulary is only about 400 words- half of them unprintable! Let's give the kid some credit here.

Certain liberals are really going overboard in their praise of Marshall Mathers. On Crossfire Paul Begala recently compared Eminem's lyrics to the Greek classics. When Enimem raps about F& %king his mother it is basically on the same level as Oedipus by Sophocles according to Begala.

OK, Paul, sure it is.

[weikel]

I believe thats a Mencken quote( Mencken would be a great comedic gangsta rapper lol).

[chnsmok]

I like Eminem also and was mentioned on the Hugh Hewitt radio show! He wanted people to email him a complete sentence from his lyrics that did not contain a profanity. I, of course, sent the chorus of Murder, Murder. This was yesterday and I was so jazzed to hear my name on national radio! I am a 54 year old soon to be grandmother.

[weikel]

He mentioned you by name cool.

[chnsmok]

Yes it was. My head might get back into shape soon...I hope.

[stands2reason]

This appears to have changed: the consensus of America’s Right, after 8 Mile, appears to be that Eminem is an intelligent social critic who happens to have a filthy mouth.

Since when?

[BradyLS]

Eminem's lyrics are okay, but I prefer them in the original Shatner-speak.

[Route66]

"the consensus of America’s Right, after 8 Mile, appears to be that Eminem is an intelligent social critic who happens to have a filthy mouth."

The consensus of the American right? Were we asked?
Oh well....this kind of hype is what he pays his publicist for.