Eminem

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For those who have missed the hidden political discussion in this forum, here is what it concerns.

 

Eminem song puts Bush in the dock

 

Dan Glaister in Los Angeles

Friday October 29, 2004

The Guardian

 

Eminem has become the latest music star to weigh in on this year's presidential election. In a video for his new single, Mosh, the singer takes George Bush to task for raising taxes and waging the war in Iraq.

 

"Strap him with AK-47, let him go/Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way," a cartoon version of the rapper sings of the president, as he mobilises a mob of young voters.

 

The video is Eminem's most directly political work. It comes as other stars, from Bruce Springsteen to Leonardo DiCaprio, take to the stump - almost exclusively for Mr Kerry.

 

The video was first aired on MTV on Wednesday and immediately went to the top of the channel's "hot video" charts.

 

In it, the rapper leads a crowd of hooded people, including a mother with an eviction notice and a soldier given orders to return to Iraq, in a march to storm a government building. Once inside, the mob remove their hoods and stand in an orderly queue to vote.

 

Eminem, now wearing a smart suit and red tie, declaims in a style reminiscent of Martin Luther King:

 

"In these closing statements, if they should argue, let us beg to differ, as we set aside our differences, and assemble our own army, to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president, for the present."

 

The video was made by the Guerrilla News Network, a small independent company that has produced other music videos as well as a documentary about the dangers of depleted uranium in Iraq after the US-led invasion.

 

"We're responsible for this monster, this coward, that we have empowered," Eminem sings over a monotonous, stirring beat. "How could we allow something like this, without pumping our fist?/Now this is our final hour."

 

The climax to the video comes as the crowd faces riot police. As images of Mr Bush and Osama bin Laden flicker on a giant screen, the rapper sings: "No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil/No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal/If we don't serve our own country we're patronising a hero/Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes/They've been swiped, washed out and wiped, And replaced with his own face."

 

The video ends with a black screen and the words "Vote November 2".

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I love his ass, and would love to rim and fuck Eminem. His studied nasty attitude is also a big turn-on for me. I wonder how hung he is and if he's ever done it with a man.

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>I wonder

>how hung he is and if he's ever done it with a man.

 

Most homophobes have.

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Well, check out his new piece "Just Lose It" where the hetero/homo lines break down. Maybe he's starting to come out! :9

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Green Day: American Idiot

 

>I love his ass, and would love to rim and fuck Eminem.

 

In that case, why care how hung he is?

 

>His studied nasty attitude is also a big turn-on for me.

 

The video is somewhat hard to understand, although fortunately, MTV has it (as they do many of their videos) close captioned. However, the performance on Saturday Night Live made it particularly crystaline.

 

However, for intelligent political commentary via music, I will take Green Day over Slim Shady for the simple reasons that I think their music will have far more lasting value, is more accessible as well as interesting, and their politics have always been on the mark:

 

"American Idiot"

 

Don't wanna be an American idiot.

Don't want a nation under the new mania.

And can you hear the sound of hysteria?

The subliminal mindfuck America.

 

Welcome to a new kind of tension.

All across the alienation.

Everything isn't meant to be okay.

Television dreams of tomorrow.

We're not the ones who're meant to follow.

For that's enough to argue.

 

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.

I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.

Now everybody do the propaganda.

And sing along in the age of paranoia.

 

Welcome to a new kind of tension.

All across the alienation.

Everything isn't meant to be okay.

Television dreams of tomorrow.

We're not the ones who're meant to follow.

For that's enough to argue.

 

Don't wanna be an American idiot.

One nation controlled by the media.

Information age of hysteria.

It's calling out to idiot America.

 

Welcome to a new kind of tension.

All across the alienation.

Everything isn't meant to be okay.

Television dreams of tomorrow.

We're not the ones who're meant to follow.

For that's enough to argue.

 

 

 

 

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