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What do I think of the new Eminem? I think it's—if you're into Eminem, it's a very cerebral thing, like I said on my Instagram story. It's hip hop that you watch go by. It's like a scroll, and you just watch. It's incredible. It's like—what would you call it? It's like watching an incredible talent that might be a little bit outside of what you would regard as musical talent. Is it like watching someone do a card trick and sleight of hand and cup stacking combined? Yeah. Something like that. I feel impressed on a level that no music has ever impressed me, and isn't that enough to make the guy a legend? Impresses me in a way that no other artist has impressed me.
This is a guy who writes lyrics with quadruple entendres. Here's how talented he is: imagine writing a paragraph, but that paragraph has to read and make sense across, down, and diagonal. As hard as it is to make that paragraph is as talented as Eminem is. It is a different viewing experience for your ears. It's not a put-it-on-and-drive—you put it on and you experience it. Just like art is different. There's some photographs you wouldn't hang in your house but that are incredibly important. Other things you want to put up, some things should be in a museum. So it's all about the context, and when the context is right—man, that is some unbelievable stuff.
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Also on the Nashville music scene: I heard this Maren Morris song in the car and I loved it so much. Let me tell you something. I live in America. I live in America because I live in Los Angeles and I live in Montana. And if you combine those two things, that's a very good look at America. It's of course not complete. As no one's life will ever completely show them America. But when I heard Maren Morris today, I was like, this girl, that shit sounds like America. And I don't mean it, like, "Murica." I don't mean that. I mean she's playing the experience, she's singing the experience. That's how people feel love. That's what love sounds like to a lot of people. That's what wanting someone sounds like, to a lot of people. And I sat there, and I was like, this is putting me in such a mood. It makes me want to live that life. Great music makes me want to live the life it's singing about. And when I hear Maren Morris, I go, man, I just wish I could live more lives than this one.
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