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It's a really great song and I can really imgaine Neil when he meets the other guy in this song. I think it's so very lovely even if it's about two men in love. What do you think?

It's Eminem's favourite song.

It's utter dog poo. Sorry, just MHO.


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I believe this song is hated by mostly of the PSB fans in the community. And that's one of the only things I disagree with them: I really like the song. The melody is beautiful.

Its a great melody and song, but I reckon the subject matter and lyrics are somewhat misguided

The lyrics and subject is embarassing and a blatant try at gaining publicity by incurring Eminem's wrath.

Everything else is great.

It has great melody.

one of my favorites on release.

its a good story,nice arrangement and music, a hot topic for a PSB song and they pulled it off IMO at least.

Awful. The refence to 'late for school' really makes me cringe..

I didnt like that line either.

kennym wrote:Awful. The refence to 'late for school' really makes me cringe..

why? Are you uncomfortable with the persona Neil adopts in the song? Is the suggestion that America's self-professedly homophobic king of trailer trash rap is also a paedophile what makes you cringe? Would you rather Eminem was cast as enjoying sex with a consenting adult?

Without that line the song loses its teeth, the polemic collapses.

So I'm interested in why it makes you cringe... it would make more sense for the whole song to make you cringe.

I enjoyed this song immensely when it first came out, the innocent balladic melody adds to the humour, the wit of the song; the lyrics masterfully create a mis-en-scene

nowadays I find there is not quite enough in the song musically to keep me engaged.. however, I still use this song as an example of 'dramatisation' in lyric poetry - my students find it much easier to recognise the wit and the goalpost-shifting with each stanza in this song than they do following Horace's farewell to Thaliarchus or Ovid's cajoling of Corinna

Debussy wrote:Its a great melody and song, but I reckon the subject matter and lyrics are somewhat misguided

er, ok, so where did they go wrong?

well since you went there and was blunt,I will also.I for one see no reason why neil had to "go there" with the lyric.

if gay people are going to constantly take us straighties to task for any percieved slights against gays I see no reason why gays themselves need to feed ammunition to damage their own cause by needing to show a homosexual preying on a same sex highschool teen.

I mean are gays asking for this stuff? luckily nobody in the usually PC world was outraged either due to a double standard or the fact possibly noboyd heard it.

eitherway if anyone has seen datelines "to catch a predator" we all know this topic sure isnt a cute as a song lyric for the people involved.

I adore this track !!

The music is pure lushness (even if you don't like the lyrics).

glennjridge wrote:if gay people are going to constantly take us straighties to task for any percieved slights against gays I see no reason why gays themselves need to feed ammunition to damage their own cause by needing to show a homosexual preying on a same sex highschool teen.

Nevermind that heterosexual rockstars have made careers out of singing about underage schoolgirls.