The Real Slim Shady

Aftermath, under Universal. The jokes are fast. The target is whoever is nearest.

Aftermath released it, through Interscope, inside Universal. The record is a man delighted by his own aim. Some of the targets had it coming. Most of them are just nearby.

A house that wants the nerve of Lose Yourself does not have to take this one with it. Wit that needs a victim is a habit.

The eight

Industry
7/10
The rhyme is work. He did not stumble into it.
Household
2/10
Parents, wives, and children are material.
Piety
1/10
Nothing is sacred, and that is the boast.
Courage
4/10
He will say the rude thing. Rudeness is not courage.
Republic
2/10
A public is a set of targets.
Temperance
2/10
The appetite is for the next laugh, and the laugh is often a cruelty.
Truth
4/10
He is honest that he is performing. The performance still draws blood.
Stewardship
2/10
Do not hand the pose to a boy as wit.

Live historicallyIf a boy is quoting it to get a laugh at someone smaller, turn it off and make him say the joke without the beat.

Song · Republic · 2019

XO · Universal Music Group

Blinding Lights

A superb machine for a night out. The night is the whole map.

Republic released it, under Universal. The Weeknd can build a chorus that a stadium can shout, and the shout is about being lost after dark and wanting the person who is not there. That is an honest ache with a dishonest cure: stay up, go faster, find the light that blinds.

A house can admire the making. Do not put it on as the mood of a week. The catalog around it is a nightclub, and this is the door everyone walks through.

The eight

Industry
8/10
The record is built. The hook is a craft, not an accident.
Household
2/10
A lover is a light in the distance. No house, no morning.
Piety
1/10
The sacred is the high.
Courage
3/10
He keeps driving. The courage is stamina for a want.
Republic
2/10
The city is a backdrop of neon. No neighbor.
Temperance
2/10
Appetite is the lyric and the tempo.
Truth
4/10
He does not pretend the feeling is love. He pretends the night will fix it.
Stewardship
2/10
Nothing is handed on but the song, and the song points back at the night.

Live historicallyIf it is on, turn it off before midnight and go to bed at the hour you said you would.