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...made it safe for the multititudes with the breakout tracks on "Saturday Night Fever". But by '76, here's what they were asking for in the dance clubs: Vickie Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around"; Silver Convention's "Get Up and Boogie"; Donna Summer's "Love Trilogy" (an LP, and every cut was getting played); The Trammps' "That's Where the Happy People Go"; and the fabulous Andrea True's "More More More" (a tune that will never be removed from my desert-island jukebox...
...tack on a few more days just for DMX's last two CDs). Eminem, also this week, pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, and prosecutors agreed to drop an assault charge against him (the Grammy folks, who nominated Eminem's bigoted but best-selling "The Marshall Mathers LP" for album of the year, should probably plead guilty to soliciting...
...Federation's Vince McMahon and designed for ultraviolence (fair catches aren't allowed, but roughing the passer is). The G.O.P. courted the Rude Boy vote by putting the WWF wrestler the Rock onstage at its 2000 convention. And after selling more than 11 million copies of The Marshall Mathers LP, rapper Eminem not only garnered a best-album Grammy nomination for his tales of homophobia and misogynist violence, but he may even perform at the Feb. 21 awards show...
...year, you noted, "Attacking women and gays isn't rebellious, it's archaic." That is the smartest thing anyone has ever written about Eminem. Too bad other magazines gave kudos to the year's most visible bigot. Thank you, thank you, for not including Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP on your list of the 10 best albums. THOM RENTON BRITTANY Seattle...
...Eminem, "The Marshall Mathers LP" For a listener with an admittedly limited affinity for the genre, Slim Shady's passion and lyrical virtuosity commanded, if not a place in the heart, at least a somewhat anxious acknowledgment that something is indeed going on here. Fast, funny and literally furious, the Elvis to Dr. Dre's Sam Phillips gives a whirlwind tour of a seriously conflicted young superstar's mind, while holding up an in-your-face mirror to the public's idolatrous expectations. His hostility comes off as personal beefs directed at particular individuals rather than undifferentiated hatred - there...