That unrepeatable combination made this song impossible to ignore. “Love the Way You Lie” is a cautionary tale about domestic violence, with a chorus sung by perhaps the single most famous recent survivor of real-life domestic violence. Nor was this some random guest feature for its own sake (like, say, teaser track “Won’t Back Down,” whose head-banging guitar riffs and Pink hook added rock as well as pop appeal to the mix). By enlisting a mainstream marquee name as his collaborator, Eminem repeated one of his signature moves from the old days, getting his single played on pop and rap radio at once.
That Rihanna duet is far from my favorite song on Recovery, but it was a fiendishly smart choice for a second single.
People who felt they’d outgrown the nasty, juvenile aspects of Eminem’s earlier work might get the impression that he had, too. The guy who used to flaunt his uniquely twisted personality seemed to have matured into an empathetic everyman, someone capable of seeing his own faults and forgiving yours. “We’ll walk this road together, through the storm/Whatever weather, cold or warm/Just lettin’ you know that you’re not alone/Holla if you feel like you’ve been down the same road.” Not even 2002’s “Lose Yourself,” the clearest antecedent in Eminem’s catalog for this kind of inspirational talk, had gone so far. “Everybody, come take my hand,” he sang-spoke. In case anyone missed that press release, he rejected his previous work even more emphatically: “Let’s be honest, that last Relapse CD was ehhhh.” The song’s anthemic hook made it clear what Em meant to replace all that with. I’ve since come to admire how succinctly it introduced Recovery‘s key talking points.
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And, while he remains neurotic - a man lost in his own mind - on the new album, he goes a step further, exposing not only childhood traumas but also professional jealousies: In “Talkin’ 2 Myself,” he confesses, “I almost made a song dissin’ Lil Wayne/like It’s I was jealous of him ’cause of the attention he was gettin’/I felt horrible about myself.Two weeks later, Eminem expanded on this sales pitch with “Not Afraid.” At the time I was lukewarm on the single. Eminem’s albums have traditionally been devoid of oestrogen, but on Recovery, he collaborates with Pink (“Won’t Back Down”) and Rihanna (“Love the Way You Lie”). “ I felt so bad about myself and the music that I was creating, that I felt like I started to turn into a hater and it wasn’t just singling Kanye and Wayne out at that time period.” The Music Videos for both the singles also have over 1 Billion views on Youtube.Įm claimed to felt terrible for dissing Kanye West and Lil Wayne in tracks while prepping the album during an interview with DJ Big Boi in 2014, “ Anything that was hot at that moment, or anybody who was really killing shit at that moment,” Em said in the interview. The hit singles “ Not Afraid” and Rihanna assisted “ Love The Way You Lie” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. “Recovery” was a huge hit as it debuted at number 1 on Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 741,000 in the US. The production was handled by various producers including Dr. The album featured guest appearances from Pink, Lil Wayne, Slaughterhouse, and Rihanna. Recovery is also the year’s best-selling physical album, with over 4 million copies sold. Slim Shady’s struggle to recovery and sobriety is chronicled on the album. The project featured 17 tracks, which were recorded from 2009-2010. It was a follow-up to 2009’s “ Relapse” and originally planned to be released as “ Relapse 2” but was renamed when the Detroit Rapper found the album to be musically different from his sixth studio album. 11 years ago today (June 18), Eminem released his seventh studio album “ Recovery” through Shady Records, Aftermath & Interscope.
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