Eminem’s Back

I don’t have Eminem posters on my wall anymore. You probably don’t either. But here he is again, still calling himself Rap God, with a new video that’s just kind of unsexy and weird in a way that doesn’t quite land.

I watched it and I genuinely couldn’t decide whether I should think it’s stupid or just accept with tired resignation that Eminem is Eminem, exactly as he’s always been. The video exists. It’s there. Visually strange, technically fine, emotionally dead. Maybe the whole thing is that he never changed, which is either the problem or not the problem depending on what you wanted from him. Anyway, he’s back. Or something.