Political pop that could actually change the world

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Eminem Mosh. He says 'Fuck Bush'. He says 'No more blood for oil'. He says 'Kerry on, give me hope'. He says 'Vote on November 2nd'. And the imagery in the video says a lot more. A message like this, from a star as big as Eminem, could actually change the outcome of the US election. Who says pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame? Who says that nothing anyone says makes a blind bit of difference? As brilliantly political as anything Bob Dylan did at the height of the 60s protest boom. Positively Brechtian.

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I am glad the videos on TRL and it's an anti-Bush video and all that. It's just i read about it on Pitchfork in a long multi-paragraphed essay and was expecting something amazing. It's just a dull, serious-sounding song that couldn't exist without the political lyrics.

He should have taken one of his older hits and simply re-written the lyrics or something. "Without Bush" or "The Real Dick Cheney" or something of that nature. It's just so much easier to spread the chorus of "The Real Slim Shady" than this tuneless mess.