Marshall Bruce Mathers III or the person the world knows as Eminem is not known for his sunny disposition or his genial nature. He is known more for his angst, his abusive lyrics, his misogyny, homophobia and general hostility towards the world at large. So we don’t expect him to smile. We barely recognise him when he smiles. In fact, his smile is so unusual as to be positively scary!
Smiling is so uncharacteristic of the man that there are practically no pictures of him smiling available. This Facebook post actually made him smile. The face that looks so natural with a sullen frown looked positively unnatural with a teeth baring smile.
That is not a face used to smiling! That is a rictus, a facial contortion that simply sits ill on that face!
What wicked plot is afoot, you wonder when you see that face twisted unnaturally into a smile that will never, ever reach the eyes!
Those who saw that smile cannot unsee it – doubtless, it will haunt the dreams of innocents in times to come!
That look of suspicious dislike? That is normal. We’re used to it. Eminem being hostile and disagreeable is par for the course.
Eminem disses everyone. Other rappers, other signers, US presidents, women, his own mother who then sued him for ten million dollars for slander… this is normal. This is not what fills fans with shocked horror.
See? A forbidding, quelling, unhappy look! No wishy-washy smiles there! (It should be ‘your’ and not ‘you're’, but I refuse to join issue with a meme-maker here).
Eminem’s normal expression can most accurately be described as resting bit*h face... defined as facial expression that unintentionally appears as if a person is angry, annoyed, irritated, or contemptuous, particularly when the individual is relaxed, resting or not expressing any particular emotion. That sounds about right. Eminem probably wants to be remembered thus: Never smiled. Died.
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