Encore

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There’s an interview that came out around the release of <i>Encore</i>, in which you can see Eminem sitting in the middle of the empty football field he’d performed in just a few days earlier. It was amazing, the interviewer say, seeing 50,000 people—from young kids to middle-aged men—singing along with <i>you</i>: “Your power has reached an apex.” Em shifts in his folding chair and smile, then admits: “That makes me nervou.” Of course it doe. 50,000 people? And you, having gone from a $5.50-an-hour grill-cook job to being on the short list for <i>Time</i> magazine’s Person of the Year—all in just five years? The pressures of fame had been a subject of pop music since David Bowie’s <i>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars</i>, but Bowie didn’t have to deal with people indirectly blaming him for school shooting. No wonder 2004’s <i>Encore</i> felt so agonizingly mixed-up: <i>The Eminem Show</i> wa, in a way, the last word he had on all this stuff, but that didn’t mean people stopped wanting more. .

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