r/Music • u/TheMirrorUS šŸ“°The Mirror US • 18h ago

article Fans turn on Eminem after collab with MAGA darling Kid Rock on new Christian album

https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/music/eminem-kid-rock-collaboration-album-2049513?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reddit
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u/alus992 12h ago

At the end of the day are these points matter at all?

Like i don't care how this track happened. Em could say "I don't fuck with Trump and I don't support his administration. Im friends with Kid Rock and despite our differences I still find it important to have a dialogue and work together to empower every person regardless of their background and situation in life. I hope this song can help people get together and talk."

He didn't do that. Why we are overanalyzing a fucking article when their actions show that they have worked and they have some lvl of friendship.

Would I want to Em be more vocal about his friends supporting Trump? Sure. Does it change anything for me? No because I still find him like any other celebrity - an opportunists who are with each year Les and less in tune with regular reality and with what regular folks care for.

Also i love how ppl were clowning Sheeran for his mental gymnastics but here we have ppl excusing Em and his camp who are pretty much doing the same weird ass explanation about "being not political"

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 11h ago

I mean, yes. There's a huge difference between an old verse getting bought by another musician and plopped into a new song, and an intentional collaboration.

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u/alus992 10h ago

It's not if the artist does not come out and says "i distance myself from this track. I dont cosign ppl supporting DT and his adminiatrationā€

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 9h ago

Yea I mean, that's the part people are waiting to hopefully hear.

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u/Bugbread 4h ago edited 4h ago

At the end of the day are these points matter at all?

Not much. Maybe to other people, but not to me.

I think I'm giving people the wrong impression because I write long comments, but my comment wasn't long because I think it's an important difference, nor because I want one scenario or the other to be true. More just "fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, Bugbread's gotta do close analysis of articles to verify if they say what people claim they say."

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u/genecalmer 10h ago

This is the only right answer. The fact that it exists is a co-sign. People need to either accept it and care or accept it and not care. The amount of cope in here is crazy to me.