Eminem: “I felt conflicted doing the Jessica thing”
Oh! So, apparently famous rapper Eminem actually hesitates before poking fun at someone in one of his songs or videos, after all. Here we all thought that he was one of the “throw caution to the winds” kind of guy.
Well, apparently he does hesitate, if and only if, the celebrity he plans on spoofing is the girlfriend of his favorite quarterback! So that explains why he “struggled” poking fun at singer/actress Jessica Simpson in his latest demeaning video, We Made You. It seems that her boyfriend, Cowboys quarterback, Tony Romo, is one of Slim Shady’s favorite quarterbacks.
“Tony Romo is one of my favorite quarterbacks,” Eminem tells Detroit’s Metro Times. “So I felt kinda conflicted doing the Jessica thing.”
Oh, and here I thought that he was sensitive to Jess’s feelings. It seems that the singer’s boyfriend should receive that accolade.
The video showed a heavy Jessica Simpson look-alike, in her trademark Daisy Dukes, wolfing down a huge burger while cozying up to a football-uniformed Eminem. But, the rapper did not originally plan to have it that way. When he was still at the drawing board for his video, he had planned on having a slender Jess look-alike.
“When I say, ‘Jessica Simpson, sing the chorus,’ we were gonna have a chick who looked like Jessica Simpson come out and sing,’ he shares.
But, while shooting the video, headlines about the blonde singer’s fuller figure came out and inspired the rapper to make some last-minute changes.
“But then Jessica got fat,” he says. “I mean, not really fat but she certainly got fat for … well, Jessica Simpson got fat for Jessica Simpson!”
Oh, well. All I can say is, at least he hesitated.
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