Marshall Matters, aka Eminem, returned to the music scene with Revival, a desperate collection of redundant tracks and collaborations with top-notch mainstream artists. The man who is expected to deliver cunning, cutting and painful truth is replaced with an artist with over-produced album that chooses quantity over quality.
This is a double LP, half of it packed with impressive pop names that are supposed to cover for the lack of substance. Even Rick Rubin's production couldn't smash the monotony of the sound and lyrics. Eminem is repeating himself over the course of the record as If he is trying to convince us he is passionate about the topics he sings about: angst, family and Trump's America. He is probably aware of how phony he has become considering that he persistently refers to his previous phases, while he still had artistic integrity and dignity. He is more pop than rap now. He is a guy who want to please people whose favorite song of 2017 was Despacito. To be honest, the guests on Revival have given their best to satisfy the expectations of once brilliant MC, but If he failed, we can not expect anyone else to overcompensate. So, what is the issue?
All the themes, samples, features, and production are hackneyed smd obsolete and they do not differ from anything we have been overwhelmed with during the past couple of years. Eminem sounds like a king of regurgitation who is determined to bore you with a two-hour long album. I mean, maybe I am expecting too much from this rap veteran, but let's be objective - Eminem is inconsistent and submissive to trends. That is why he has more guests than solid verses.
