Eminem Slammed For “Deeply Distressing” Lyrics About Ariana Grande Manchester Attack
On ‘Unaccommodating’, Eminem raps “I‘m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’ on the game/like I’m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting”, followed by a bomb sound effect — last year, he evoked a similar image in a live freestyle rap. The lyrics have been condemned by both Manchester’s mayor and Figen Murray, a mother of bombing victim Martyn Hett.
“This is unnecessarily hurtful and deeply disrespectful to the families and all those affected,” wrote mayor Andy Burnham, with Murray calling the song a heartless ‘piggybacking’ off tragedy.
“Feels like he is piggybacking on the fame of Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber and says distasteful things about other celebrities,” she wrote in a now-deleted tweet. “Not clever. Totally pointless. And before all Eminem fans pounce on me, I am not interested and will not engage.”
On the same track, Eminem also compares himself to Saddam Hussein and Iranian revolutionary and war criminal Ayatollah Khomeini. Twitter users have largely slammed the line, though some fans have pointed out the rapper donated $2 million after the Manchester attacks.
Across, Music To Be Murdered By, Eminem centers the gun control debate, which is also, of course, a
form of terrorism.
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