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| Producer = | Chronology = Eminem singles | Last single = "The Way I Am" (2000) | This single = "Stan" (2000) | Next single = "Rock City" (2002) | Misc = }} "Stan" is a song by American rapper Eminem featuring British singer Dido. It was released on December 9, 2000 as the third single from Eminem's third studio album ''The Marshall Mathers LP'' (2000). It peaked at number one in the United Kingdom and Australia. It is also included on ''Curtain Call: The Hits,'' performed with Eminem and Dido on track 5 and on track 17 as a live performance from the 2001 Grammy Awards featuring Elton John, which was censored on both the clean and explicit versions. The song was produced by The 45 King, and uses a slightly modified break from Dido's "Thank You" as its base sample. The track also samples the opening lines of "Thank You" as its chorus. Coincidentally, both songs were released as singles in late 2000. "Stan" has been called one of Eminem's best songs and is considered one of his signature songs. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked "Stan" at #296 in their list in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was also listed at #15 on VH1's list of the greatest hip hop songs of all-time. It has sold over 880,000 copies in the United Kingdom.〔 "Stan" was also named by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was nominated for multiple awards, including Best Song at the MTV Europe Music Awards, Video of the Year, Best Rap Video, Best Direction, Best Cinematography at the MTV Video Music Awards, but only won Best International Artist Video at the MuchMusic Video Awards. In April 2011, ''Complex'' magazine put together a list of the 100 greatest Eminem songs, ranking "Stan" at #2. The name of the character in the namesake song has given rise to a slang term online which refers to overzealous maniacal obsessed fans of a celebrity or personality. During his performance at the 2001 Grammys, Elton John was a surprise guest playing piano and helping with Dido's chorus. At the end they hugged each other and thanked the crowd. ==Background== The song tells the story of a person named Stanley "Stan" Mitchell who claims to be the biggest fan of Eminem. (In the album, Eminem uses his alter ego, Slim Shady.) In the song, he writes letters to Eminem, with each verse he becomes gradually more obsessed with him, and when there is no reply he becomes progressively angrier. He finally creates a voice recording of himself driving his car into a lake, with his pregnant girlfriend in the trunk, as shown in the lyrics: "So this is my cassette I'm sending you, I hope you hear it. I'm in the car right now doing 90 on the freeway..... See Slim, (screaming) shut up bitch I'm trying to talk! Hey Slim, that's my girlfriend screaming in the trunk..... Well, gotta go, I'm almost at the bridge now—oh, shit! I forgot! How am I supposed to send this shit out? (Car tires squealing, big crash, loud splash.)"The first three verses are delivered by Eminem as Stan while the fourth verse is Slim attempting to write to Stan and reason with the troubled young man, only to realize that he had already heard about Stan's death on the news. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stan (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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