Once, about 6,000 years ago, Eminem sounded genuinely playful: “I’m interesting! The best thing since wrestling!” he proclaimed brightly. Today, gaunt and mean-eyed and forever so fist-clenchingly serious that he seems on the verge of squinting himself into a black hole, Marshall Mathers senses, maybe, that he’s not that interesting anymore. “Walk on Water” is his latest joyless trudge of a power ballad that pairs a softly crooned hook with fuming, escalating verses of rage-spittle—a formula he’s followed dutifully since 2010’s “Love the Way You Lie” gave him new life on the charts. Tellingly, he spends nearly every one of this song’s 304 seconds fretting aloud about his own obsolescence.
The big news this time around is that the crooned hook is offered by Beyoncé, a strangely regressive role for the biggest pop star on the planet. Nonetheless, she executes it with her typical feather-light touch and superhuman poise, her singing trembling expertly at the border between head and chest voice. The track, produced by Rick Rubin, sounds made for a commercial, a noncommittal gloop of grand piano and strings with no beat.
It’s an appropriately blank canvas for Mathers to scribble on, and he blots out every inch of white space with his chains of logorrhea. As usual, it sounds impressive on the surface, but a closer look reveals wording either leaden (“It’s the curse of the standard that the first of the Mathers discs set”) or nonsensical (“pressure increases like khakis”). Once, Eminem rhymed with such audible joy that it almost excused his puerility. Now, rapping sounds almost unendurable to him, even though he doesn’t know how to stop—in the last 10 seconds, after Beyoncé gracefully bows out, he can’t help butting back in to remind us: “Bitch, I wrote ‘Stan’!” Yeah, Marshall. We remember.
Eminem could have dropped a new single or album with no promotion whatsoever and it would still have huge commercial success and be one of the most talked about things of the year. However we’re glad he decided to hav, e a little marketing campaign for it because it’s been building anticipation better than we could have even hoped for.
In August we heard rumours of a new single possibly with P!nk. Then in September we heard it was titled ‘Revenge‘. In October we heard a new Em album could be out on November 17th and just a couple of days after that came the infamous BET verse.
Still though, there was no real evidence of an LP anytime soon. And that’s when things really kicked off.
Paul Rosenberg’s IG post gave us more info than we could have even hoped for and the Revival hype was through the roof just like that. Earlier this week on social media, a single called ‘Walk On Water’ was teased in a similar fashion and finally, here we are.
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