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Yes, controversy + music is a huge success formula. Eminem knows it and so do we. Yesterday's controveries don't seem so now but they sure were then.
Yes, Eminem writes about violence to sell more
CDs.
Yes, Ozzy Osbourne pissed on the Alamo and bit the head off a live bat.
Yes, Mick Jagger and Keith Richard's were once considered the bad boys of Rock-n-Roll because they wrote songs about drug use and sex.
In 1966, John Lennon said
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
Publicity stunt? Sure!
I think Elvis was just swinging his hips to sell more albums. That, apparently, was more controversial in his day than Eminem's lyrics today. Didn't Elvis' management pay teen girls in the audience to cry?
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