EminemBase wrote: ... These fucking retards go on about how much they don't give a shit about Eminem any more, yet they're dedicating their lives to a 'movement' declaring it? lmfao. Clearly they do care.
If you don't like his new stuff, listen to his old stuff and stfu.
Exactly, well said
The 'stan' word gets thrown around a lot in circumstances like this, but let's dissect it. A Stan is, effectively, a 'stalker-fan'; in this case anyone who likes Em enough to write to him everyday, follow everything that he ever does, knows his whole life story, and attempts to make contact with him could be placed in this category with little debate.
In reality, the term applies to anyone who has most of Em's discography in their iTunes, and who listens to him and talks about him a lot. The boring part aside, this movement is a hypocritical joke. They claim, as EminemBase clearly states, that they don't give a shit about him and aren't stans, but look at the extremes they are going to to reach out to him! They're writing letters (most of which look like they were written by an epileptic down syndrome with Parkinson's disease), and getting spastically creative and arty in the process. In
Stan, Stan loved Eminem so much he ended up killing his pregnant girlfriend. This movement have gotten so worked up, they're creating websites and acting like they are on some fucking jihad. They are the stans; so discontent with the artist they used to know and love, that they are doing everything they possibly can to bring him back to their Utopian reality.
They may claim that the stans are the people that sit back and seemingly allow Em to make this music? As EminemBase and others have rightly pointed out, what level of influence do they think we should have over Em? You don't tell an artist to change his style to suit the mood of a handful of internet nerds who have probably never touched a proper pair of tits in their life. They're a fucking mess. If it wasn't for Koolo having leaked some pretty poor Eminem tracks, their movement would have no credible direction.
It's so sick you could almost make a Stan-part 2 out of it (which would be bloody cheesy, but there you go).
I could easily write a whole essay on how ridiculous their movement is, but I really don't see the point in lowering myself to their ridiculously outlandish, freakishly geakish standards.. Take Koolo's most recent topic at Studio-Leaks (the Intervention of whatever it's called). Claiming he's smart, yet he writes like a dyslexic 13-year old who's sucking on her uncles cock.
It's not a question of dismantling their movement. That would be easy to do. It's more of a question of realising how ridiculous it is; in reality you'd be wasting your time and fueling their ego's. To end the comparisons, it's like telling your little kid with Parkinson's that he will grow up to be the best break-dancer in the world. You'd be hard pressed to stop the fucker when he starts, and when he's finished you sit back and realise how ridiculous it really is.