Eminem: Stan Meaning

Song Released: 2000

Stan Lyrics

Stan

Chorus: Dido

My tea's gone cold I'm wondering why I...
got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window...
and I can't see at all
And even if I could it'll all be gray,
but your picture on my wall
It reminds me, that...

1. anonymous

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   Aug 31st 2011 !⃝

   Watch the video , at the very end it shows a name on a grave stone , "Stanely Mitchell"..what other proof do you need

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2. anonymous

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   Aug 21st 2011 !⃝

   I think that eminem is brave because not much people can that about a bad childhood in a song to million of fans and i think that he is great
3. FineLineBetweenLoveAndHate

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   Aug 17th 2011 !⃝

   Just watch the music video.... Explains everything .
4. anonymous

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   Aug 15th 2011 !⃝

   "Stan" is actually based on the rapper Canibus. Go research the dispute they have and listen to their back and forth diss tracks. You will learn that Canibus sent many letters to Eminem, and kept trying to get in touch with him, basically in all the same ways as "Stan" but Eminem wasn't interested. This all came out during their beef, and Eminem just happened to be way more creative when dissing Canibus. No one would suspect Stan is Canibus. Very creative Eminem
5. anonymous

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   Aug 13th 2011 !⃝

   its about addiction and shows what addiction can do to you.
   for example, stan (human) eminem (drug) eventually his addictions lead to his suicide.
6. anonymous

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   Aug 7th 2011 !⃝

   i still dont understand what the chorus has to do with it

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7. anonymous

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   Jul 26th 2011 !⃝

   Incubus diss.

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8. anonymous

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   Apr 27th 2011 !⃝

   this talks bout a fan datwas once close 2 him in d past. but slim left and became a star so stan gets 2 noe nd sends im letters but slim fails 2 reply or call. stan goes mad and drives himself and his pregnant gf over a bridge and they die. dats wen slim starts 2 reply

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9. anonymous

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   Apr 16th 2011 !⃝

   As said by Eminem,this song is generally speaking about fans that are obsessed with him (there's propably a whole bunch of them) and sends out a message that they shouldnt try and do bad things for him like stan did.
10. anonymous

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    Mar 15th 2011 !⃝

    It's a METAPHORIC way to describe how his uncle Ronnie "killed himself over some bitch who didn't want it". Stan kills himself because he feels Eminem isn't giving him the attention he wants from him.
11. katiushia

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    Mar 7th 2011 !⃝

    I'm wondering if there could be a deeper meaning to this song. I know that Eminem refers to himself as 'Slim Shady', and this is the star that Stan obsesses over. I'm wondering if this could be a sort of inner monologue to himself, an allegory of sorts of how he stands to lose everything due to his alter-ego. In the beginning, Stan appears to be a fairly well adjusted man who tries to communicate with his idol. However, he cannot keep up communication, and ends up dying, taking his young family with him. In his song 'when I'm gone' Eminem worries about the possible loss of his life as it stands due to his alter ego: Slim. 'We could be together' could be an attempt to reconcile the different aspects of his person, which he fails to manage. Stan does not appear to be gay as he has a pregnant girlfriend, so this is why I have arrived at this conclusion. 'If you didn't wanna talk to me at the show, you didn't have to' could illustrate the extent of the situation, how in becoming Slim, he is totally separated from his true self. 'He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do' struck me particularly strange as he claims to be his biggest fan, so this could refer to the way that the innocent youth look up to him. 'Sometimes I even cut myself'......his way of trying to feel because he feels himself disappearing into the persona of Slim. His speech becomes more disjointed through the course of the song, until he ends up high, drunk and plummeting over a bridge with his pregnant girlfriend in his car trunk. This is the death of Stan. I believe that Eminem could be looking to the death of his true self, the taking over of his stage person. In the end it is simply Slim giving him advice, not realising that he is already dead, and Eminem is probably prophesising how he will know what he needs to do once it is too late, and is expressing fear at this. 'Damn', a mild expletive, is because few would care at the loss of who it truly is, because all the fans know it’s Slim. He's afraid that it will mean nothing.
12. anonymous

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    Feb 16th 2011 !⃝

    Eminem is obviously stating that there are to many people sending him mail and that if hesent reply to the letter its not cause he dosent wanna talk to u its because he has so many other people sending out mail and to not take a effect to not being replyed to and go driving off a bridge...
13. anonymous

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    Jan 26th 2011 !⃝

    I think it's showing how eminem thinks his fans are taking everything too literally and are becoming who he is, but he doesn't want that. He wants hail to have a better life than him. People shouldn't take him literally, but learn from his mistakes. People are becoming too obsessed and Em doesn't like how it's negatively affecting people. He's showing that he's trying to do what he can for his fans, but everyone messes up and he does what he can. He's only human. He might also be referring to who he looked up to as a child, like going to concerts and trying to get autographs, but doesn't want to be that. He wants to be better.
14. Sknikaz

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    Jan 25th 2011 !⃝

    Well, as everyone knows, this song is about an overly obssessed fan of Eminems, but maybe a few people would agree with me that it is a little too far-fetched to be real? I mean, I'm happy enough to believe it is if someone had proof. I am obssessed with Eminem, so is my bro, but catch me trapping my fiance in a trunk and going over a bridge! I just cant think it would be real, coz, yeah, it COULD be, but until there's proof, I dont think a lot of people, like me, would be able to think it was real! Sorry if you dont agree, but thats exactly how i feel about it. Too far-fetched and unrealistic, but COULD possibly have happened.
15. anonymous

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    Jan 20th 2011 !⃝

    I believe that this song has basis of his own relationship with his father. In an interview, Marshall said he sent his father 3 letters as a child. Stan writes 3 letters to Eminem. Also, Marshall idolized his father and really wanted to meet him, just like Stan wanted to meet Eminem. The chorus which says about the picture could represent Marshall seeing a picture of his father and not wanting to give up in trying to talk to him as a child. Marshall could be exploring the options in his head of why his father never wrote him back; such as he was busy or the mail came late.

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