{"id":1713,"date":"2010-09-23T07:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/poptheology\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2013-06-24T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:30:16","slug":"recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/poptheology\/2010\/09\/recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to Recovery…and a Higher Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay offers a review of Eminem\u2019s new album, Recovery.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first review of a rap album here at Pop Theology.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see how it goes after the jump.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Eminem wraps (and raps) his latest effort in the language of one of the most popular religious movements of the last century, \u201cRecovery.\u201d Although Recovery<\/em> has five more tracks than the Twelve Steps, it\u2019s notable for the Steps it covers, and for those it leaves out.<\/p>\n

First, any serious critic has to pause and name the most problematic element of Eminem\u2019s music\u2014his vicious and unrepentant misogyny.\u00a0 It\u2019s a problem throughout hip-hop, but Eminem revels in and illustrates his fantasies of abuse of women beyond the usual feral \u201cb-word\u201d boasts of most rappers.\u00a0 His insistence on devolving into violence damages good songs on Recovery <\/em>about the vulnerability of relationships like \u201cSpace Bound\u201d and \u201cLove the Way You Lie,\u201d and permeates almost everything else on this album like a poison haze.<\/p>\n

That being said, it\u2019s important to see the irony in Eminem\u2019s offensive lyrics\u2014to understand a performance is not necessarily a literal endorsement of an action, but rather a take, a perspective, a voice on it.\u00a0 Furthermore, we point the finger at Eminem only to find it pointing back at ourselves.\u00a0 Eminem is as much a reflection as a cause of a culture of violence against women.\u00a0 For some reason, he relishes embodying this societal shadow of sexism and misogyny, perhaps as a means of purging his own tendencies toward violence, perhaps as a means of attracting the disapproval that brings about the self-martyrdom he seems to need like oxygen.<\/p>\n

On the first track, \u201cCold Wind Blows,\u201d he says this is just the way he is:\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll be nicer to women\/When Aqua Man drowns and the Human Torch starts swimming.\u201d\u00a0 Although I don\u2019t believe Eminem\u2019s misogyny is immutable, I breathe the Serenity Prayer, \u201cLord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I <\/em>cannot change\u2026\u201d and move on to explore the rest of the album.<\/p>\n

Recovery<\/em> features a lot of rap about Eminem\u2019s recent drug problems, particularly his near-fatal overdose on methadone.\u00a0 The recording booklet also features Eminem sitting in a glass house (the kind from which one should not throw stones?) in the middle of downtown Detroit, his hometown.\u00a0 The visual joke frames the album title with the kind of double meaning Eminem relishes in his rap\u2013it\u2019s about Recovery from drugs, Recovery of the economy, Recovery of a career.<\/p>\n

Eminem starts his comeback in the first song.\u00a0 Although his bluster is as strong as ever, halfway through the song, he gets a smack from above, in the form of a lightning sound effect interrupting his rhymes.<\/p>\n

\u201cCause you\u2019re fake, [lightning crack] ahh what the fuck, that hurt wait!<\/p>\n

[Lightning crack] Ahh what the fuck, I just got struck by lightning.<\/p>\n

Alright then I quit, God I give up.<\/p>\n

Call it evil that men do, Lord forgive me for what my pen do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not exactly a \u201cdecision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 But there\u2019s at least a recognition that some Higher Power might be affecting his life.<\/p>\n

The three songs that show Eminem at his most vulnerable are \u201cTalkin\u2019 2 Myself,\u201d \u201cGoing through Changes,\u201d and \u201cNot Afraid.\u201d\u00a0 Taken together, this trio might parallel the dark night of the soul and transformation that those in recovery go through in the Twelve Steps.<\/p>\n

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In \u201cTalkin\u2019 2 Myself,\u201d Eminem raps: \u201cYou\u2019re lying to yourself, you\u2019re slowly dying, you\u2019re denying\/Your health is declining with your self esteem, you\u2019re crying out for help.\u201d\u00a0 In another line he says, \u201cHit bottom so hard I bounce twice suffice this time around\/It\u2019s different them last two albums didn\u2019t count\/Encore<\/em> I was on drugs, Relapse<\/em> I was flushing \u2018em out.\u201d\u00a0 This sounds like Step 1:\u00a0 \u201cWe admitted we were powerless over drugs\u2014that our lives had become unmanageable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eminem continues to Step 4, conducting a \u201csearching and fearless moral inventory,\u201d admonishing himself by his birth name:<\/p>\n

\u201cMarshall you\u2019re no longer the man, that\u2019s a bitter pill to swallow\/All I know is I\u2019m wallowin\u2019, self-loathing and hollow\/ Bottoms up of pill bottle maybe I\u2019ll hit my bottom tomorrow\u2026 I\u2019ve turned into a hater, I\u2019ve put up a false bravado.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A deeply moving account of Eminem\u2019s struggle with considering suicide, \u201cI\u2019m Going through Changes,\u201d features Ozzy Osbourne on the chorus track. This song continues the self-reflection theme and the cry for help:<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m losing control of myself,<\/p>\n

I sincerely apologize if all that I sound like, is I\u2019m complaining,<\/p>\n

But life keeps on complicating, an\u2019 I\u2019m debating,<\/p>\n

On leaving this world, this evening, even my girls,<\/p>\n

Can see I\u2019m grievin\u2019, I try and hide it,<\/p>\n

But I can\u2019t, why do I act like I\u2019m all high and mighty,<\/p>\n

When inside, I\u2019m dying, I am finally realizing I need help.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eminem also covers steps 8 and 9:\u00a0 \u201cWe made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.\u201d\u00a0 In \u201cTalkin\u2019 2 Myself,\u201d he admits:<\/p>\n

\u201cHatred was flowing through my veins<\/p>\n

On the verge of going insane<\/p>\n

I almost made a song dissin Lil Wayne<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I was jealous of him cause of the attention he was gettin\u2019<\/p>\n

I felt horrible about myself<\/p>\n

He was spittin and I wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n

Anyone who was buzzin back then coulda got it<\/p>\n

Almost went at Kanye too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the Top 40 hit, \u201cNot Afraid\u201d he continues these steps by apologizing to his fans:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to the fans, I\u2019ll never let you down again, I\u2019m back\/I promise to never go back on that promise, in fact\/Let\u2019s be honest, that last Relapse<\/em> CD was \u2018ehhhh\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The chorus has some of the same, us-against-the-world feel of his Oscar-winning song, \u201cLose Yourself.\u201d\u00a0 As he reaches out to fans that might be in pain (the album is dedicated: \u201c2 anyone who\u2019s in a dark place tryin\u2019 2 get out.\u00a0 Keep your head up\u2026It does get better!\u201d), he even intimates the Twelfth Step:\u00a0 \u201cHaving had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not afraid to take a stand<\/p>\n

Everybody come take my hand<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll walk this road together, through the storm.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s still that matter of where Eminem\u2019s Higher Power comes in, beyond a lightning bolt, but first let\u2019s take a look at some of the other album highlights.<\/p>\n

\u201cW.T.P.\u201d is a funny and roof-raising groove (the initials stand for \u201cWhite Trash Party\u201d) that gets Eminem back to his working-class roots.\u00a0 \u201cPull up to the club in a Pinto like it\u2019s a Porsche\/Garbage bag for one of the windows, spray painted doors\/ With the flames on \u2018em, Michigan plates and my names on \u2018em\u2026\u201d\u00a0 The song\u2019s a tribute to low rent fun, \u201ctramp stamps,\u201d doing doughnuts in a parking lot in a Gremlin, and the curious chemistry of \u201cMixing Hennessey and Fanta with Pepto and Mylanta.\u201d<\/p>\n

The genius of hip-hop rests in both its reuse of recorded music, samples rather than individual notes becoming the building blocks of a song, and in the wildly creative use of words, what MC\u2019s call \u201cflow.\u201d\u00a0 On the latter quality, no one\u2019s better than Eminem.\u00a0 Wordplay flies at the listener\u2014sometimes in quick spurts, sometimes taking several lines for extended metaphors to evolve.\u00a0 In \u201cW.T.P.,\u201d he explains, \u201cI\u2019ll rip a tree out the ground and flip it upside down\/\u2018fore I turn over a new leaf clown.\u201d\u00a0 In a boast over other rappers in \u201calmost Famous,\u201d he raps, \u201cYa\u2019ll are Eminem backwards, you\u2019re menime\u2019s\u201d (mini me\u2019s).\u00a0 Explaining his superior oratorical skills in \u201cWon\u2019t Back Down,\u201d he raps, \u201cthese other cats ain\u2019t metaphorically where I\u2019m at man\/I gave Bruce Wayne a Valium and said\/settle ya fuckin ass down I\u2019m ready for combat-man\/get it \u201ccalm Batman?\u201d\u00a0 Yes, Eminem, we get it.\u00a0 You pun more than the French.<\/p>\n

Eminem\u2019s delivery varies between a rat-a-tat spit and a drawl that mashes words together, shouted through a nasal punk tenor that still sounds adolescent despite his pushing forty.\u00a0 Nowhere is the contrast between rap voices more acute than \u201cNo Love,\u201d in which he teams up with (the currently incarcerated) \u2018Lil Wayne, who croaks his lines in a Dirty South twang.\u00a0 The sample in this case is the head-bobbing disco hit \u201cWhat is Love,\u201d by Haddaway, which Eminem and Wayne twist into a chest-thumping rebuke to other rappers that show them \u201cno love.\u201d<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s such a thing as a rap ballad, Rihanna and Eminem pull off a good one on Love the Way You Lie<\/em>.\u00a0 Rihanna\u2019s pretty chorus is accompanied by piano and acoustic guitar.\u00a0 Eminem\u2019s words are about the pain and frustration of a \u201ccan\u2019t live with it, can\u2019t live without it\u201d relationship.\u00a0 Even some of his more aggressive lyrics work within this doomed relationship in obsessional mode.\u00a0 Until the end.\u00a0 And then the misogyny takes over.\u00a0 And an otherwise good track is ruined.<\/p>\n

So where is Eminem\u2019s Higher Power?\u00a0 It seems like he skips steps 2,3,5,6, and 11, which have to do with letting go to God, and having God remove your \u201cdefects of character.\u201d\u00a0 But I can\u2019t help but feel this album represents some kind of turning point for Eminem.\u00a0 He\u2019s come to some pretty difficult conclusions about himself and his own limitations.\u00a0 Where did his \u201csalvation,\u201d if that\u2019s what we want to call it, come from?<\/p>\n

I read an article recently in which Eminem spoke of rap as the drug that saves his life.\u00a0 And maybe here is his Higher Power.\u00a0 Part of the reason the recovery movement uses the language of a Higher Power is precisely that an inability to conceive of a theistic God should not be a stumbling block to recovery.\u00a0 Sometimes the sharing and compassion felt in an AA group meeting is the Higher Power.\u00a0 It might be a parent\u2019s responsibility to a child, which Eminem seems to feel.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard of one case for an addict where a doorknob was his Higher Power, because it was the only thing working in his life.\u00a0 The Higher Power is that which draws you out of yourself, your problems, your addictions, and encourages you to live into the fullness of your being.\u00a0 For Eminem, this talented but troubling performer, rap is what saves his soul.\u00a0 Maybe someday, it will enlighten him enough that \u201cAqua Man drowns, and the Human Torch starts swimmin\u2019,\u201d and Eminem finds respect for women.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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