Just A Shade of Obsession

Eminem, Mariah Carey continue fued
Yahoo News

Perhaps the more interesting Mimi-centric headline this week had to do with the ongoing Mariah/Eminem feud. The two superstars reportedly briefly dated years ago, before Mariah married Nick Cannon (although Mariah denies this), and Eminem recently released a Mariah diss track about their alleged relationship, "Bagpipes From Baghdad," that had Nick fuming on his personal blog. Mariah retaliated with her new single "Obsessed," which asked the musical question, "Why're you so obsessed with me?" and was accompanied by a hilarious video starring Mariah as a stalker Shady lookalike who gets run over by a bus.

So this week, Eminem threw Mariah UNDER the bus and struck back with another defamatory anti-Mimi song, "The Warning," threatening to release photos and audio tapes as proof that they were once a real couple. Critics argued that this was a bad PR move for Eminem, further cementing his jilted-psychopath image, while Mariah continued to look like a class act by keeping her mouth shut about their dating past. And such critics had a point. Why is Eminem so obsessed with Mariah, huh?

If you would have told me 5 years ago that in a subsequent Eminem/Mariah Carey fued I would side with Mariah I would have called you crazy. Now it seems Marshall Mathers is the only crazy one. Aside from this he had a cameo in 'Funny People' where he cussed out Ray Ramano and he was really weird in it. He may have been instructed to do so but he didn't come off well.

Plus I really like that Mariah Carey song but if we're talking songs about Obsession, I prefer this one.