This song was one of the first times that Marshall shows why he is so angry in his music, marking it as one of the most important songs on the album. “Remember when Ronnie died and you said you wished it was me?” he raps, his voice growing to a yell. He especially digs deep in the third verse of the song, as Marshall gets angrier as he brings up more disturbing things that his mother did. Later in the album is his incredibly controversial song “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.” This piece follows Marshall as he airs out all the troubles his mother brought him through his life. Eminem points out the hypocrisy that everyone loved America for its freedom of speech, while he and other artists were being censored and targeted for trying to speak freely.

The release of this album was during the “War on Terror” campaign in America, following the 9/11 attacks, a time when patriotism was incredibly high. He proceeds to start his album with a satirical piece pointing out the irony of the time. Then with a smooth transition right into his first song, “White America,” the album truly begins. Recorded applause accompanied by heavy footsteps on a stage, followed by the tapping of a microphone, make up the first track of the record. The album opens in a classic Eminem fashion, with a skit. “The man behind the anger,” so to speak, Marshall Mathers. “The Eminem Show” marks history for Eminem fans, not because it is the first time he expresses anger in his writing, or the first time he uses narratives to do so in a concept album, but because it is the first time that he shows a softer side to himself. He does a good job of explaining the extreme emotions that we can feel at times and personifying them.” “I feel like, before, we heard just a lot of anger, and here in ‘The Eminem Show,’ you see a softer side of him,” said Ethan Damiani, third-year BCHM.Īccording the Damiani, many know Eminem as “the angry rapper,” a rapper who “redirects some extremely passionate emotions of anger towards music expression. The album revealed more sides to Eminem’s talent. “To me, ‘The Eminem Show’ is the album that solidified Eminem’s status as one of the GOATs,” said Girish Hari, third-year CS student when asked his thoughts on “The Eminem Show.” 26 print edition of the Clinton Journal or now in the Journal E-Edition for subscribers.Thursday, May 26, 2022, marked the 20th anniversary of what many Eminem fans would say is Eminem’s best album, one that marked him as an artist rather than just a rapper.

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While on a vacation with his family, McMath came across some Civil War bullets, “and couldn’t wait to get back to share them with her.” McMath said retired CJHS teacher April Martens was one of the people who inspired him to become a teacher. Clinton schools’ band director Nathan Wheeler led a high school ensemble in several period-appropriate American tunes.Ĭity commissioner John Wise spoke to the crowd about his life and about the benefits of living in Clinton, and reasons residents like calling Clinton home.Ĭlinton High School teacher Kelby McMath spoke about his “Cemeterian Project.” The project brought together students to perform cleaning and restoration work on headstones in the cemetery’s Civil War plot. The Founders’ Day event, organized by the Celebrate Clinton group, invited some local speakers and actors in the personalities of three key historical figures who played pivotal roles in Clinton’s establishment as a community.Ĭelebrate Clinton’s Helen Michelassi served as emcee for the downtown portion of Sunday’s event. Lincoln’s Square and later at the Homestead, to mark the founding of Clinton.

CLINTON - About 75 residents assembled on Sunday, first on Mr.

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