how the Information age (internet, new media, etc.) is all about doing the most outrageous, absurd drivel just to get ATTENTION...
hence, the song begins: "May I have your ATTENTION please?
May I have your ATTENTION please?"
then it talks about attention-getting stunts, like Tom Green humping a dead moose, Aguilera/Spears/Durst/Daly sexcapades to get headlines...as well as Pam Anderson & Tommy
so Em playfully joins in the game, & says outrageous things -- like that he killed Dre...& talking about Viagra, etc.
he mocks how people are drawn in & attracked to the outrageous -- as w/ his parody of feminists saying that he grabs his you-know what, etc...
the point is that in this day in age, the attention goes to the vapid outrageous, so you play along -- by creating a persona (the Real Slim Shady)
amazingly, and ironically, this song comes right before Whatever You Say I Am on the CD... that song deals with an opposite reaction to the media/papparrazzi era that we live in... in that song he reacts violently against it -- but in this song (The REal Slim Shady) he has fun with it...
THIS SONG IS ABOUT:
how the Information age (internet, new media, etc.) is all about doing the most outrageous, absurd drivel just to get ATTENTION...
hence, the song begins: "May I have your ATTENTION please? May I have your ATTENTION please?"
then it talks about attention-getting stunts, like Tom Green humping a dead moose, Aguilera/Spears/Durst/Daly sexcapades to get headlines...as well as Pam Anderson & Tommy
so Em playfully joins in the game, & says outrageous things -- like that he killed Dre...& talking about Viagra, etc.
he mocks how people are drawn in & attracked to the outrageous -- as w/ his parody of feminists saying that he grabs his you-know what, etc...
the point is that in this day in age, the attention goes to the vapid outrageous, so you play along -- by creating a persona (the Real Slim Shady)
amazingly, and ironically, this song comes right before Whatever You Say I Am on the CD... that song deals with an opposite reaction to the media/papparrazzi era that we live in... in that song he reacts violently against it -- but in this song (The REal Slim Shady) he has fun with it...