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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   Jan 2nd 2009 !⃝

   The thing to take away from all this was that Stanley Mitchell was a real person, and really commited suicide with his wife in the trunk. He was totally obsessed with Slim, and wanted to be just like him. When Slim said he was "busy" and couldn't answer the letter, he was in jail. When he got out, he found out about Stan, and wrote a song in his dedication.
2. anonymous

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   Dec 24th 2008 !⃝

   its not really an interpretation,but stan went to far because he didnt get a letter back for shady.Driving his car off a bridge with his girlfriend in the back of your car?Counseling isnt enough for that.
3. JDjustbeinme

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   Oct 6th 2008 !⃝

   I personalty think that in this song slim was trying to prove the point that Stan had a life like his. Stan had looked to slim as hope that people like them can end up making it big because many of us like myself find someone like them with the same problem to overcome and look up to but slim was busy and Stan like many of us was scared because the person he looked up to had not shown their advice. He did the only thing he knew how to in the situation he killed himself and his pregnant girlfriend and made a tape telling slim he didn't care anymore because there was no hope for his life from his inspiration. When slim decided to write him back he said the guy needed counseling and that he wasn't dissing but he didn't want to see Stan with the same situation but he was to late in the end. The message was we all need someone to look up to because we all have demons to face in the end.
4. Gurl_E_Nerdd

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   Apr 23rd 2008 !⃝

   What I felt when I liked Em:
   
   An obsessed fan who looks as the artist as a savior not just a musician. He wanted to be everything that the artist was and really wasn't. To him the artists music it seems to have to arouse him and the feeling it gave was what he loved.
   
   He sent multiple letters to the artist but he doesn't realize that artists have a lot of things to do and a busy schedule so he gets mad and self destructs. In his eyes he wants the artist to be in his dreams to think of his mistake as in not contacting him sooner and that what was going to happen was all his fault.
   
   He ends up killing his pregnant girlfriend and then himself by driving into the lake. All do to obsession.
5. anonymous

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   Jan 17th 2008 !⃝

   Do people listen when someone needs help desperately? And if they do listen is it too late?
   
   I thought this when watching the video a few times I thought that he relied on someone so much that finally when Stan thought that he wasn't going to answer it was at that point it was too late.
   
   Like Stan said all he wanted was a letter or a phone call if he got that he may have been alive who knows but it made me think about people in general.
6. cynic

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   Dec 12th 2007 !⃝

   It's about what might happen when you get too obsessed with someone like Eminem himself, and take his lyrics too literally.
7. anonymous

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   Jan 8th 2007 !⃝

   Stanley idolises Slim and writes him letters compairing there lives, stan gets fed up that the letters have been lost in the mail and slim gets them late so he trys to guilt slim and ends up killing himself, his girlfriend and unborn child who he has locked up in the trunk, slim writes stan a letter after its to late , apoligizing for the delay in the letter asking about his child and apoligizing for not seeing him at the show and he sends an autograph for his little brother, then he proceeds to tell him about this clip on the news and relises it was stan, and that he was to late
8. HHH

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   Sep 17th 2006 !⃝

   It's about what lengths a crazed fan will go,for another person,stan,eminem's fan attempts to reach eminem 3 times,each time getting proggesively stronger in anger,which ultimately ends in the fan's suicide,eminem then responds but realizes that he was to late,and that fan killed himself.
9. pc_rap_boi

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   Aug 19th 2006 !⃝

   Stan is a song about a crazed fan who was sick in the head and idolized eminem so much that his anxiety escelates so much that his six month long letter spree leads him to tie his girlfriend up in the trunk and while being drunk and recording his "last package" to eminem he drives his car over a bridge. Finally eminem writes back,but it is too late.He sees on the news that someone resembling stans case killed himself by bridge also.Then he realizes it was him.
10. anonymous

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    Jul 27th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about a guy who has an obsession with slim shady and he keeps sending leeter after letter trying to get slim to write a letter back. But slim never returns those 5 letters so stan takes it in to his own hands he tells em that he was only sendin 1 last package. In the last few lyrics stan tells em that he is drivin 90 on the free way and that he drank a fifth of vodka and that if em falls a sleep that he better dream about how of that was all of his fault but then stan relises how is he going to send out the tape and he slams on the brakes and then you hear a crash in the water and then when em final gets back to him it is to late stan is already dead.
11. anonymous

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    Feb 26th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about when one of Eminem's fans "Stanley Mitchell" commited suicide and killed his girlfriend by driving his car off a bridge with his girlfriend in the trunk of his car on March 23 1999.
12. linkinpark4eva

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    Oct 19th 2005 !⃝

    This song was performed with Dido. It’s about a fan’s obsession with Eminem, and he writes letters. Unfortunately, these letters end up lost in the post. Eventually, after six months of lost letters (only a few get through) It turns into a sick and perverted ’97 Bonnie & Clyde. He locks his girlfriend in the trunk of his car, gets totally pissed, goes driving on a freeway and drives of a bridge into the river. All the while he records a message to Eminem, ranting and raving under the influence of alcohol. The final scene is of Eminem replying to one of the letters that got through. Suddenly, the news comes on, and it shows the car in the river. At the end, Eminem uses a suprisingly mild expletive, “damn”.

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