Wow, November 13, 2004

I don't need to be some (...)Eminem sycophant to know this album just flat out sucks. I have all of Em's albums and this one is inescapably dull, overlong, and boring. I'm not trying to be a hater, people. But I also don't feel like I need to praise everything the man puts his name on. Eminem has set a very high standard with his previous work, and his fans should be able to expect new material to meet that standard (or surpass it) when they're shelling out hard-earned cash.Hey, I'll buy his next album too. I'm not saying the man is dried up. But I can't get into "Encore." And yes, I have listened to it quite a number of times already so I'm not making a snap judgement.

Wow, this album is absolutely horrible. I think Eminem has given up completely on actual music. It is not only hard to respect this as a rap album, but as a music album, period. Wow, it's realllllyyyy bad.

I can see how some Eminem fans might be disappointed with this album. Too many people were expecting another `The Eminem Show' or `Marshall Mathers LP'. But to their surprise, they got *gasp* a different album.The same thing happens with almost every artist out there. Around the fourth album or so the artist changes their style, wanting to do something different, but they end up being called sell-outs, or people are disappointed in the new sound.In my opinion, this could be Eminem's best album so far, or at least it matches up to the rest of his work. Except `Encore' works on a different level than his previous albums. Until now his albums have had a consistency through most of the disc, where if you like one track, you'll probably like the next. But this is not the case for `Encore'. Yes, there are tracks that fit in with the sound of `The Eminem Show', but there are some that people may find annoying, or disgusting.Marshall shows his sense of...