| Brand New Dance | |
| Type: | song |
| Artist: | Eminem |
| Album: | The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) |
| Genre: | Comedy hip hop |
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"Brand New Dance" is a song by American rapper Eminem. It was released through Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records as the fourth track from his twelfth studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), on July 12, 2024.[1] The song was written and produced by Eminem himself and Luis Resto.[2] [3] The song was originally titled "Christopher Reeves", named after the actor of the same name, but adding a "s" on his family name, and intented to make part of the tracklist for Eminem's fifth studio album Encore (2004), but was later renamed "Brand New Dance", due to Reeve's conditional form.
Originally, the song was recorded to be on Eminem's fifth studio album Encore, under the name "Christopher Reeves". However, the song was cut after its main subject, film actor Christopher Reeve, died on October 10, 2004 from heart failure, a month before the album's release. This was revealed on Eminem's song "Guilty Conscience 2".
On July 12, 2024, the song was released on Eminem's twelfth studio album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), under the name "Brand New Dance".
The song was met with generally negative reviews. Ben Devlin of MusicOMH wrote "It certainly sounds like a reject from one of Eminem's worst albums [''Encore''], emphasising the backward-looking, tedious approach of this record, and the song has no cultural relevance decades after Reeve's life-changing accident."[4] Jordan Bassett of NME wrote in a review of the The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), "The production is appealingly cartoonish and rubbery, from the elastic bassline that twangs through 'Brand New Dance'..."[5] Rob Shieffield of Rolling Stone wrote, "But it's fair to say that nobody, not even his worst enemies, would have predicted that two decades later, he'd still be making Christopher Reeve jokes—in fact, he'd devote an entire song to repeating the same joke that once took him three seconds. "Brand New Dance" is sad enough in itself..."[6]
Dash Lewis of Pitchfork praised the song, writing "Despite its dated, unnecessary content, "Brand New Dance" might be the best song on [''The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)'']."[7]
| Peak position | |
| Australia (ARIA)[8] | 21 |
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| Ireland (IRMA)[9] | 61 |
| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[10] | 18 |
| UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC)[11] | 5 |