Tuesday, December 17, 2002
22. "lose yourself (from 8 mile)," eminem
more than "the way I am," more than "stan" even, this is eminem's most driving, urgent, downright intense single, and thus his best. when em raps "success is my only motherfuckin' option/failure's not," you believe it, you know it. the persona of rabbit, em's character in 8 mile, fits him perfectly; it seems to liberate the great blonde hope from having to "do" slim shady or marshall mathers and focus on someone else - someone we know is, in many ways, eminem himself.
more than "the way I am," more than "stan" even, this is eminem's most driving, urgent, downright intense single, and thus his best. when em raps "success is my only motherfuckin' option/failure's not," you believe it, you know it. the persona of rabbit, em's character in 8 mile, fits him perfectly; it seems to liberate the great blonde hope from having to "do" slim shady or marshall mathers and focus on someone else - someone we know is, in many ways, eminem himself.
# posted by Thomas : 6:15 PM
