One of my favorite songs is “Lose Yourself” by Eminem. I first heard the song as a pump-up song for our basketball warm-up in middle school and have loved the song since. I find the beat and lyrics to be uplifting and help to get your adrenaline pumping; in my opinion, the best pump-up song to listen to. The review I found online for the song focused on the music and did not pay much attention to Eminem. The writer, George Zahora, emphasized that the music alone, is what makes the song so good. He compares the song to “Eye of the Tiger” explaining how well it gets peoples adrenaline pumping. Zahora then says however, that the reason the song is good is because of the beat and music; not because of Eminem’s talents. His closing line says, “You could train a parrot to provide Eminiem’s share of the work.” This is where I disagree with the writer; I find that Eminems’ lyrics are a major part as to why the song is popular among different types of music lovers. Whenever the song comes on in a commercial, or on the radio; people do not just start humming the beat to the song, they start to sing the intro or the chorus because that is the part of the song they know and remember. The music leads them to start singing the lyrics that Eminem uses. Zahora uses a respectable list of criteria that looks at the musical instruments, beat, and lyrics to grade the song. While I do not agree with his review of the lyrical part of the song, I do agree with the criteria that he chose to evaluate the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO2wA0Te0wM
A. Good. Yeah, this is partially a criteria problem. You can't analyze a rap song without focusing heavily on the vocals. Part of what makes this song incredible is what he does with his voice.
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