关于stan的分析

082014青年科学2014-08关于stan的分析口张音梅(南京理工大学外国语学院江苏南京210000摘要:本文介绍了由说唱歌手 Eminem演唱的单曲Stan,这首歌以一个叫Stan的粉丝和他的偶像的通信为歌词。叙述了粉丝如何因为瘋狂地迷恋自己的偶像而走向了死亡之路。而这并不是一个偶然现象。现在有很多年轻人会把偶像当做自己生活的中心,却忽略了身边的亲人和爱人,这首歌的创作者也想通过这首歌传达给他的粉丝要去学会热爱生活,不要做出和故事主人公一样愚蠢的事情关键词:极端崇拜,家庭和偶像间的平衡,正确的生活观Analysis of Stanhinged obsession for Slim. To make him more related to Slim, Stan"gets aStan is composed of a series of letters written by both a famous singer tattoo of his name across the chest". He even takes what Slims words serio-Slim and one of his crazy fans named Stan. It was at night when I first lis- usly and tries to do everything that appears in his lyrics. For instance, hetened to this song sung by Eminem, and i really got scared by the creepy notes that"Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds/It's likelyrics. The story begins with a man Stan trying to communicate to get closer adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me"(45-46). But it is not theto his idol. But he becomes more depressed and annoyed as he writes more worst.letters but still gets no reply. At last, he ends up dying, along with his inno- In the third verse which is recorded in a tape cassette, Stan, s abnormalcent wife and an impending baby. The biggest tragedy of this song lies in obsession eventually destroys him and his whole family. He ties his preg-the fact that the loss of this whole family would not have happened if the nant girlfriend up in the trunk and "does 90 on the freeway after drinking aletters were answered a little bit earlier or the man did not rely too much on fifth of vodka"(60-61. He keeps saying"You could have rescued me fromhis idol. As is seen, in modem society, many people no longer have belief drowning/ Now it's too late"(65-66)and"You ruined it now, I hope youor motivation in themselves and they tend to madly go after popular stars can ' t sleep and you dream about it/ and when you dream I hope you cantfor spiritual dependence which ultimately leads to a disastrous tragedy. In sleep and you SCREAM about it"(70-71), because he thinks Slim did notthis case, idolizing itself is not wrong, but fans just should balance between answer him for he did not deserve it. He is so disappointed that he commitstheir idol and family, for it is the family rather the idol that accompanies us suicide in the way that Slim once mentioned in his song before, taking hisforever and really matters to us, no matter how strong you resonate to his young family with him including his baby about to be born Baby is oftensongs or his personal experienceassociated with hope. But Stan kills the hope with his own hands. ThereThis song is a dramatic poem and composed of a few letters written by fore, he has no one else to blamewo characters-Stan, a pathetic crazy fan and his idol SlimThis tragedy is not accidental. Nowadays many people take their idolFrom the very beginning, we can see that the fan Stan considers Slim as the center of the whole life, neglecting many important people that areas his biggest motivation to live on. The conflict of the whole story is be- around, especially their family. In Slim,s letter back, he notes that"I reallytween Stan's excessive worship and obsession for Slim and the fact that he think you and your girlfriend need each other/ or maybe you just need togets no reply from him. In the chorus, Stan states that even iflife is gray and treat her better"(93-94), which implies the singer knows the value of familydiscouraging, as long as Slim is there, he will still have faith in life: "It'll all and does not want his fans to do silly things since his lyrics are just somebe gray/ but your picture on my wall/ it reminds me that it,'s not so bad" black humor. Looking at the whole story from a gender lens, even if Stan(5-7). It actually implies that Stan has already been disappointed about life. loves his girlfriend, he simply considers her as nothing but his private prop-noyed little by little because he still gets no reply or call, an becomes an- erty. As his girlfriend, she obviously has the right to share his feeling. How-Then during the first three letters and a cassette to Slim, Stever, Stan does not admit her right and excludes her out of his life: " MyIn the first letter, Stan's tone seems to be normal. He thinks Slim does girlfriend id jealous cause I talk about you 24n7-she doesn't know whatnot call because there may be a problem with the post office. Getting a room it was like for people like us growing up"(48-50). Women are still lookedfull of Slim s posters and pictures, he claims to be the biggest fan of him. down upon by men even in modem society. What's more, another tragedyHere is a clue about his pregnant girlfriend that runs through the whole is that Stan thinks he shares the same growth environment as slim and thussong. By saying"My girlfriend is pregnant too, I'm about to be a father/If no one understands him better than he does. there is one point that may beI have a daughter, guess what I'ma call her? I'ma name her Bonnie" right- they grow up in a similar family environment and that is exactly the(15-17), Stan shows his great obsession for Slim, and he is willing to follow start of his obsession for him. Slim is pathetic. He thinks he knows Slim,him in any way.but actually he doesn't. He just lives in his own imagination every singlethe second letter, Stan gets somewhat annoyed but he is still con- day and gradually becomes unhinged. Indeed, everyone has the right toscious. He continues to explain how much he idolizes him. He talks about idolize someone. But no matter how much you worship your idol, familieshis little brother Matthew who is Slim s six-year-old little fan by the lines"cannot be replaced by. Just as an American philosopher says, "The familyThat's pretty shitty man- you're like his fucking idol He wants to be just is one of nature's masterpieces"(George Santayana). So treasure what youlike you man, he likes you more than I do"(34-35). Here we can consider have got, especially your sweet family, and you will find the true reason tothe little fan as the embodiment of Stan himself, for they have so many live on.similarities. After that, Stan claims that"I ain 't that mad though", which isWorks Citedtotally an unconscious lie and there a tragic figure emerges in front us. Isn't中国煤化工2013.web6 Octoberit pathetic that an increasingly mad young man does not even realize he is 2013.CNMHGAt this point the story changes to a whole tragedy because of Stan s un- ber yana,peing crazy?x-m..<-ate, 2013. Web. 6 Octo-306