Hurts So Good: Eminem's Sizzlin' Love The Way You Lie Debuts
EM'S ON FIRE
Hurts So Good: Eminem's Sizzlin' Love The Way You Lie Debuts
IS KIM STILL GETTING A CUT OF EMINEM'S RICHES? She oughta be.
And, in between slicing open his vein and spilling it all over paper, Em should give thanks for the perverse love the two shared that has propelled him to such dizzying highs and lows.
Today the poet scores another off his Kim addiction (by the way, Em, there's a drug for that) with the release of, ahem, a "fiery" music evoking the self-immolating destruction of domestic violence.
The video diary that accompanies I Love The Way You Lie stars abuse survivors Em and Rihanna, who soars while singing the hook: “Just gonna stand there and watch me burn, but that's alright because I like the way it hurts.”
Also featured is Megan Fox in the role of “Kim,” and Lost" actor Dominic Monaghan as a skinhead-looking Em.
"We're supposed to be desperately in love, like Bonnie and Clyde style, like Sid and Nancy, John and Yoko ... Eminem and Kim," Monaghan tells MTV.
Rihanna, who almost climbed back into that hell hole with her ex-beau and abuser, Chris Brown, said making the video was cathartic.
”It was real. It was believable for us to do a record like that,’’ she said. “But it was also something that needed to be done, and the way he did it was so clever. He pretty much just broke down the cycle of domestic violence, and it's something that a lot of people don't have a lot of insight on, so this song is a really, really powerful song, and it touches a lot of people."
Does the video glorify violence? Doesn’t all media? And isn’t that why you’ll watch it -- because you can’t help but?
