The new single from the Detroit rapper is a bomb that bodes well for the new album expected in the summer. Bombastic and funny video, very perfect rhymes that court cancellation: Eminem is back and has to deal with his alter ego, Slim Shady, “back from 2002”. A face to face which is an excuse to rap at full speed. We are no longer at the beginning of the millennium, with the little rectangle of parental advisory, here the risk is censorship which is sometimes serious. But Eminem doesn’t care and goes down flat. Unlike the doll-like Fedez and Emis Killa, who insinuate with “Sexy shop”, but…
Mah, let’s try a bold triangulation. Perhaps Pope francescoseeing the video of “Sex shop” Of Fedez And Emis Killa, he would go back to talking about fagotism. All pink, with those supermodels who slurp lollipops but seem more ornamental than anything else, accessories to a scene in which the two usual bare-chested males show off the usual tattoos that are supposed to be ugly. Um, all quite “old school gay”, as you might also observe Eminem – through the mouth of the alter ego slim Shady – returned, loaded with buckshot, with “Houdini”. A new song which is the sumptuous teaser of “The death of Slim Shady (coup de grâce)”, the new upcoming album that the Detroit rapper will release in the summer. Crazy videos and funny lyrics are the least to expect from Em, given the tenor of the latest albums – as usual full of technicalities and flashes of genius, but without a real focus -, but “Houdini” is objectively a bomb exploding with nostalgia and took the piss. That, exactly. The ass, the center of thousands of modern controversies. So Eminem, forced to face himself – Slim Shady -, who returns directly from 2002 in “Houdini”, reasons on the fact that old Eminem would say that in today’s world “everything is gay”then specifying, subtly, “gay understood as happy”.
TAll of “Houdini” is a cheeky look at today’s world through the eyes of a very recent past. Eminem then tries to get canceled quoting Siamese cats who identify themselves as black but behave like Chinese, sending everyone to hell (from the legendary Drefriend and mentor, to his family), saying he has two balls as big as Rupaul’s (and here an LOL would be just fine, just to go back a couple of decades), and accusing the System of having tried to transform him into a sort of majorette. It’s the ease that we always love madly about Eminem, coupled with the very vintage quote from “Abracadabra” by the Steve Miller Bandan object already partially mysterious for a pair of ears belonging to Generation but the blow doesn’t sink him. Is Chiara Ferragni at the bottom of the rhymes of “Sexy shop”? Um, maybe. But which one perhaps? Are we at rap made with maybes? We have already become accustomed to crime or judicial news made with conditionals, now do we even have to pretend to be tickled by a rap that fears lawyers and then takes to the field with his legs covered in shin guards?
TLet’s go back a few years, then. Let’s connect to a mature Eminem who challenges, with a superhero onesie, the old Eminem. Let’s admire him while he climbs the walls of his own building like Adam West did in the mid-60s Batman. Let’s admire him while she makes fun of herself, but he doesn’t tell her. That would be the outrage, wouldn’t it? An Eminem who finally lays down his weapons, defeated by the bravado of his recent past. But no, because, starting from the super-funny video and ending with rhymes and quotes that tickle the lower and upper parts of the body, “Houdini” promises a scorching summer for the rapper who has sold the most copies in the world. In short, little “faggot” and a lot of substance. The one that is perhaps missing in “Sexy shop”.
