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The fifteenth track on Eminem's eleventh studio album, 'Little Engine' opens with a sampled voice from Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 spoken-word record of the same name as the album, setting a macabre tone that the lyrics sustain. Eminem adopts the voice of someone psychologically unstable, cataloguing violent habits and intrusive thoughts with a level of detail that sits uncomfortably close to confession. The references span decades of American tabloid horror, from Sharon Tate to Marilyn Monroe, whilst the delivery toggles between manic energy and a kind of deadpan menace. The production keeps pace with the lyrical sprawl, building tension through sparse instrumentation before the chorus arrives with its nursery-rhyme refrain about losing control. Eminem credits his own instability as both subject and engine, the track's title doing double duty as metaphor and self-diagnosis. The result is one of the more unsettling entries on an album already framed around murder and Hitchcockian suspense.
"Little Engine" is a track by Eminem, from the album Music To Be Murdered By, released 17th January 2020. The track is 2:57 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Eminem.
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