▶️Anonymous 01/17/20 (Fri) 20:28:27 83cf18 (15) No.7842184
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Eminem Reenacts Las Vegas Massacre in Anti-Gun Video, Jokes About Manchester Bombing in Separate Track
Eminem’s new “Music to Be Murdered By” album has an album title and cover that pay comical homage to Alfred Hitchcock, suggesting a collection full of light-hearted mayhem. But a couple of its tracks reference real-life mass murders that occurred at concerts in recent years — the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Music Festival shootings and the Manchester bombing — and fans and detractors are reacting with appreciation and outrage.
The video for “Darkness” has Eminem reenacting the 2017 shootings at a Vegas country festival that left 60 dead and more than 800 wounded, taking on the role of mass killer Stephen Paddock and portraying him opening fire on the crowd before ending with a written message demanding greater gun control.
Tactful or not, there’s clearly serious intent behind the “Darkness” song and video. But the rapper may have undercut claims to having a truly socially conscious agenda by using another track, “Unaccommodating,” to make a joke that uses the 2017 bombing at an Ariana Grande show in Manchester that killed 23 concertgoers as the punchline.
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