living under rocks is the original song in stan by eminem.
what is the original song in stan by eminem?
living under rocks
"kim" was the first song the rapper recorded for the album, shortly after finishing work on "the slim shady lp" in late 1998. eminem wrote "kim" at a time in which he and his wife were separated, and he had just watched a romantic movie alone at a theater. originally intending to write a love song for her while using ecstasy, the rapper hoped to avoid overt sentimentality and thus began writing a song of hate. with the track, the rapper aimed to create a short horror story in the form of a song. once the couple reconciled, eminem recalls, "i asked her to tell me what she thought of it. i remember my dumb ass saying, 'i know this is a fucked-up song, but it shows how much i care about you. to even think about you this much. to even put you on a song like this'." the song "stan" was produced by the 45 king. eminem's manager, paul rosenberg, sent eminem a tape of the producer's beats, and the second track featured a sample of english singer-songwriter dido's "thank you". upon hearing the song's lyrics, eminem felt they described an obsessed fan, which became the inspiration for the song. the writing process for "stan" differed greatly from eminem's usual strategy, in which song concepts form during the writing: "'stan' was one of the few songs that i actually sat down and had everything mapped out for. i knew what it was going to be about." dido later heard "stan" and enjoyed it, and observed, "i got this letter out of the blue one day. it said, 'we like your album, we've used this track. hope you don't mind, and hope you like it.' when they sent ['stan'] to me and i played it in my hotel room, i was like, 'wow! this track's amazing.'"
the marshall mathers lp
in "bad guy", eminem plays the role of matthew mitchell, the little brother of the character eminem portrayed in "the marshall mathers lp" single, "stan". the song "stan" recounts the story of a crazy fan named stan, who kills himself, his girlfriend and their unborn child because eminem was not responding to his letters, until it was too late. on "bad guy," stan's brother matthew is older now and wants revenge against eminem. eminem sees matthew "skulking around his driveway with a knife and in a novelistic flourish, he details that matthew's "mouth is full of saliva" as he circles the house." matthew then kidnaps eminem, throws him in the trunk of his car, and then drives around detroit listening to "the marshall mathers lp". just like in "stan" eminem raps the second to last verse in his perspective. throughout the song he also makes references back to "stan" and "the marshall mathers lp". into the second part of the song, the production fades out and eminem battles his alter-ego slim shady in his head.
bad guy (eminem song)