I'd rather see the president dead." The incident was later referenced in the video for his song "Mosh" as one several news clips on a wall, along with other newspaper articles about other unfortunate incidents in Bush's career. On December 8, 2003, the United States Secret Service admitted it was "looking into" allegations that Eminem had threatened the President of the United States, George Bush, after the song "We as Americans", as an unreleased bootleg, circulated with the lyrics "Fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents. However, the album did provoke some controversy over anti- Bush lyrics and lyrics that parodied and targeted Michael Jackson, who was upset about Eminem's depiction of him in the video for " Just Lose It". Conversely, in terms of controversy, this album attracted less notoriety than previous Eminem albums due to the fact that shock-oriented lyrics were toned down somewhat in favor of a lighter approach than Eminem's previous three albums. ĭespite the commercial success of the album, it has been subject to some criticism for its tone and greatly simplified lyricism compared to Eminem's past albums. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 64, based on 26 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Upon its release, Encore received positive reviews from most music critics. Also, on the track "One Shot 2 Shot", the intro to the song is completely wiped and the censored version starts out right at the first chorus and the clean version has at least half of the lyrics blanked out, most significantly Eminem's verse during some parts, entire lines, sometimes two in a row, are blanked out. The song " Encore/Curtains Down" took out the shooting sequence that appears at the end of the track. Other profanities on all other songs are just blanked out for example, the song "Ass Like That" is listed as "A** Like That". In the "clean" version's album booklet, the written lyrics have been removed, however on the songs "Puke", "My 1st Single" and " Just Lose It", lyrics were changed to avoid long censorship. The word "ass" isn't censored out in "Yellow Brick Road" and "We As Americans", but is in " Ass Like That". Fuck it let's all have some fun" like the clean version of " The Real Slim Shady". "My 1st Single" has a bleep instead of a muted part in the verse "This was supposed to be my first single, my I just fucked that up. Simultaneously with the original, a censored version was released, from which the profanities, violent and sexual content, as well the drug references had been edited. Similar to Eminem's previous album, The Eminem Show, Encore opens with a skit called "Curtains Up", indicative of the start of the show.Įminem has stated on numerous occasions (including on his 2010 album Recovery) that it was during the recording of Encore that he began to form an addiction to prescription drugs, and that he was not pleased with the album. " Just Lose It" is a parody of Michael Jackson's " Beat It", as well as a Pepsi commercial in 1984. Also, he mentions his childhood ("Yellow Brick Road"), and his relationships with his parents ("Evil Deeds"). This album touches a variety of subjects, including his relationship with his ex-wife, Kim, ("Puke", "Love You More", and "Crazy In Love"), his daughter Hailie Jade Mathers (" Mockingbird"), some anti-Bush statements ("Mosh" and "We As Americans"). The album made digital history in becoming the first album to sell 10,000 digital copies in one week. The album was nominated for three Grammys at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards including for Best Rap Album but lost to Kanye West's Late Registration.
However, most critics and fans alike did note the subpar quality of the lyrics, which were more simplistic when compared to previous albums. Critical reception was generally positive.
Nine months after its release, worldwide sales of the album stood at 11 million copies. As of June 25, 2010, it had sold 5.2 million copies in the US.
Encore sold 1,582,000 copies in its first two weeks of release in the United States in November 2004, and was certified quadruple-platinum there in mid-December. Encore sold 710,000 copies in its first three days. Its release was set for November 16, 2004, but was moved up to November 12 (coincidentally, exactly eight years to the day his debut album, Infinite, was released) after the album was leaked to the Internet. Eminem, Luis Resto, Mike Elizondo, Mark BatsonĮncore is the fifth studio album by American rapper Eminem.
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