[The Germanator]

A review of "Just Lose it" from my favorite indie site...

Hi kids! Do you still like violence? Then get a load of what the disaffected suburban troglodytes who've worshipped Eminem's last three albums do to him when "Just Lose It" hits the airwaves. Despite bringing home that 8 Mile Oscar®, Marshall Mathers has still maintained some semblance of street cred as a confrontational mainstream rap artist. But then, all things end, and this Nickelodeon Nation-targeted nail in the coffin ought to go down as one of the most brutal career-killers since Spies Like Us. Eminem has long courted an adolescent audience, but he overshoots the mark considerably this time, offering enough fart jokes and "bunghole" references to fulfill even the most infantile prepubescent fantasy.

Where to even begin? The song's neutered hook wallows in excruciating cartoon laser-synth overload, set to the most stilted beat this side of a Bop-It. And the taboos! Eminem takes a swipe at Michael Jackson, mugs like Pee-Wee Herman, subjects everyone to a humorless mid-song breakdown tutorial, details an S&M scenario that wouldn't make John Ashcroft blush, and finally, utters the unthinkable clunker: "Guess who's back with a brand new rap!" The deadpan chorus hammers in Em's final nail, making even Eminem's most politically correct foes long for the days when he at least cared about homophobia: "Yeah boy, shake that ass/ Whoops, I mean girl/ Girl, girl, girl." Also, what the **** is "pajama time"?

.5 stars/5 stars