Eminem‘s new video for “Love the Way You Lie” featuring the vibrating echoes of Rihanna was released last week and it got like 30 gazillion hits in like 5 minutes on YouTube.
Okay. That’s an exaggeration — but it did get a lot of hits.
It got so many hits because it features Merry the Hobbit/Charle from Drive Shaft shoving his tongue down the throat of a Transformer hottie (a.k.a. Dominic Monaghan necking with Megan Fox). They also fight. Some violent fights. Intense fights. Very intense fights. It’s kind of hot.
We also see Eminem in a wheat field! Rihanna with red hair! A bar fight! A house on fire! And…Eminem rapping in a wheat field!
But the bottom line is that this song brings back substance to rap. Either my Zoloft isn’t working, but within the 4 minutes of this song, I actually felt something that a rap song hasn’t made me feel in a while: emotion. It told a story. And the fact that it is being told by two pop culture figures with damaged pasts makes it even more effective. It’s a pretty darn good song.
…did I mention Eminem raps in a wheat field?
- Excited
- Fascinated
- Amused
- Bored
- Sad
- Angry
