Eminem and his fans will serve as the starting point for a larger film about ” relationship between fanbase and artist “.
Eminem will co-produce and be the focus of a new documentary about obsessive fans, tentatively (and obviously) titled Stans.
As reported Varietythe new project was directed by Steven Leckart and features the rapper and “ the fans who worship him » as the starting point of what is described as a “ eye-opening, edgy and disarming journey into the world of superfandom “. Stans is apparently just a working title, named, of course, after Eminem and Dido’s hit ” Stan » from 2000, which is about an obsessive and delusional fan. But it’s hard to imagine that the film could be called anything else.
In a statement, Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s longtime manager, and Shady Films’ Stuart Parr said: “Stans will be an opportunity for us to turn the camera and ask the audience about being a fan – and in some cases, a fanatic. It’s a study in the relationship between fan and artist through one of Eminem’s most compelling songs and one of the world’s most important artists. »
“ Stan » is one of the few terms to have passed from music into the popular lexicon. While the origins obviously go back to Eminem’s song, it was Nas who helped transform the name of a fictional character into a more general term. In his acerbic 2001 song about Jay-Z, “ Ether “, Nas raps: ” You a fan, a phony, a fake, a pussy, a Stan “. (The Outline published in 2017 an excellent in-depth study of the evolution of the word, both as a noun and as a verb).
Cementing the popularity of “ stan ”, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017, and two years later, to Merriam-Webster.
