Monday, October 18, 2004

His closet is clean, why not his records?

When it comes to making songs, rhymes, beats, and almost anything else involving music, Eminem is a master. True his latest song "Just lose it" i was diappointed by (I wont get into my dislike of it in this post), but i still listen to it and find it catchy. Enimen has a new CD "Encore" comes out on Nov 16 of this year (one week after Halo 2). Now you think that since I am in awe of eminem i would rush out and buy the CD, right? Wrong. See there is a problem stoping me from rushing out and buying this CD, certain lyrics, lyrics that would no longer make this an all ages site if you get my drift. Basically eminem has alot to say and I for one dont need to here all of it. so i have an idea to help make the album more family oriented is to sell edited CDs. That is right just like all the rap songs on the radio with pauses, scratches, funny noices, or just plain changed lyrics. Now most of you are prob thinking what is the point because you almost always know what they are saying, but they dont accually say it so how is that any better. Well it just is(i should really stop discrediting my own argument). now time for some examples. My first example is how listening to this unedited "parental advisory, explicit lyrics" music can have negative effects. I take my friend as an example (We will refer to him as "one with Yao hair in the morning"). We a group of us were on a ...group trip... and listening (on discmen) to eminem and other "explicit lyical" music. So anyway something happened on that trip and "one with Yao hair in the morning" (who was not a swearing guy) say "what the f..." no it is not edited he did accually stop himself, but just barely. Even he admitted that it was the eminem that made him do it. Ok, maybe a boring example making an obvious point, but i jsut wanted to use "one with Yao hair in the morning". So anyway, bad lyrics not good for you, duh. Ok example 2. only its not really an example , more of a story relating to the topic. So i have this song, "Forgot about Dre" (one of the best rap songs ever) by Dr. Dre and featuring Eminem. So anyway I have the edited song on a CD and listen to it often, often enough that i know a large percentage of the words. so there is this one part of the song (in the eminem verse) that i love to sing along to. It goes something like this (remember this is the edited version, spaces represent pauses) (8) [<-mess icon]...hoppin' out with two broken leg tryin' to walk it off, you too call the cops, I'm gonna you and them loud barkin' dogs, and when the ... . So this is so much fun to sing along to when you have mastered the pause and words and also eminem vented his anger and i only got a small portion of it. My last topic is the terrible editing jobs on radio versions. they should have standards (they must somewhere). like for example the song "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks. the word bitch appears in this song many times. then after the DJ pointed out that they had to edit it out of other songs. Or "Fuel Injected" by Swollen Members (another great song) where they accually change "hypes blunts and hash" to "hot rods and cash" (works really well though) [side note: i belive the CD version of the song is edited accually. they say "hot shhhhh" on the CD] while on another song that was out last year (that i cant exactly remember) droped the f-bomb on the radio, im like whaaa? Also some of the editing jobs are pretty bad, for example "stan" by eminem. apparently "s***" isnt a word that needs to be edited but "in the trunk" is. also some of his one or 2 year old song some editing involves taking the vowel out of the word, thats not editing, thats ,um mumbling? (its late) sory, that wasnt accually my last topic, ive got another one. I really dont like songs that have one swear word thrown in for no real good reason. I think good charlette or someone like that did it in one of their songs, i dont really see the point. Ya so to wrap up this long unflowing post, I belive they should make edited CDs, then there are some more CDs i would give more thought to buying, like anything by eminem, outkast, Nappy roots?, and prob some others. But now an idea i have, comment your favorite or other significant one or 2 line lyrics, pref eminem but some others have good ones. and please use the first letter followed by the correct number of asterixes (*) and any required suffixes. please no @ folloed by $$ or 55. anyway here are mine picks that i can think of right now. "And f***ed it all up like the Taliban" -Everlast, Sleeping Alone
Now for eminem ones, "Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his rap to sell records, well i do so f*** him and f*** you too"-real slim shady "They call me superman, i'm here to rescue you"-Superman "See what these kids do, is hear about us toting pistols And they want to get one, cos they think the s***'s cool"-Sing for the moment (a great rhyme). I think that is all for now, but did anyone notice that the post 2 down (the somebody pleeeease help me) is accually a reference to eminem's "My dad's gone crazy"? {weirded out} [<-strongbad reference]
Ian

1 Comments:

At 7:21 PM , Blogger Jeanine said...

Well, I like the song "She Hates Me" By Puddle of Mudd, but the problem with that song is the main chorus.... "she f****** hates me". I also don't like how I tried for hours to download a radio edit version but they all ended up with that horrible glitchy noise. Grrr. I also really like the song "All She Wrote" by Default right now, and the lyric with the swear word is "..covered in snow, I never knew that h*** could get so cold". It's hard to hear so I actually heard "I never knew that IT could get so cold" until just a little while ago. So when I sing along I just sing the second lyric and it's all good. On a side note, I sold a piece of my soul away this summer.... I was offered money to swear but I didn't until one day when I dropped a box of frozen chicken pieces on my foot. The dollar is still taped to a fridge back at camp.

 

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