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The Real Slim Shady (versions)
Tenth entry in the music-that-helps series, and this one is really about the cover — Velvet Rewind's 1950s soul edit of Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" (2000). It is that good. The re-cut takes the slot in the soundtrack player here and, as of today, on the honto.me hub too, where the 本当ME heart doubles as a candle you light by pressing play. The song's thesis is the medicine: will the real one please stand up — the imposters-versus-the-real-one note, which on a targeted-person day, with phantom accounts and impersonation in the weather, stops being a joke. Velvet Rewind slows the brash record into crooned doo-wop and the defiance survives completely, delivered in velvet.
