Dear Stan, Chill Out Bro.
Whether it's casting spells with Harry Potter, cooking with Walter White, or fighting aliens with the Avengers, it's easy to get sucked into the media we consume. While it's easier to do this with visual media like books or movies, music is another medium that can be so enthralling that you lose sight of reality. If a song has otherworldly psychedelic production, or if the singer hits that high note really good, you can get trapped in that moment with the artist. While these are all ways you can get lost in the music, there is a more effective way that a song can put you in its world, and that is through the lyrics. One way an artist's lyrics can pull you into the world of the song is by the use of different points of view. A masterful use of POV is the song "Stan" , by Eminem, where throughout the song, he raps to himself from the point of view of an Eminem fanatic named Stan. Even before the lyrics, Eminem puts you in a world with his use of Dido's ...