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Eminem Moves Ahead — and Retreads Into Tired Habits — on ‘The Death of Slim Shady’: Album Review
Eminem moves forward by leaning on older habits for his latest album 'The Death of Slim Shady.'
Of course, he’s had plenty of detractors over the years calling for his cancellation — a newscaster says as much on the album’s “Breaking News” interlude — but this is par for the course for the 51-year-old, and no matter how many Lizzo jokes he cracks, it won’t dent his legacy. Mawkish and tepidly reflective, as it turned out on 2017’s “Revival.” It’s damned if you do: lean too much into the explicit entropy of his Slim Shady persona and it’s callow and low-brow; keenly observe the world around you with a fine-point pen and you’ve lost your edge. You can marvel at the lyrical aptitude conveyed on the Dr. Dre co-produced “Lucifer,” one of the record’s best, or bristle at its dated reference to Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s relationship.
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