My interpretation is this is not just about an obsessed fan. This song is reaching out to people (specifically young men) who had bad role models or none at all. He became an idol for a lot of poor young men with unresolved anger issues and this was his way of saying "don't emulate my slim shady persona, get professional help". I was one of these young boys and only recently have I understood the real message behind this song.

This is one of those songs that goes way beyond rap. The story, the emotion, the production is just unfathomable. Especially when you consider a young rapper known for shock factor lyrics and being outspoken put this together One of the great songs of all time in any genre. Awesome reaction, love it when the reactor understands what they're hearing

He has a pretty crazy storytelling song from his latest album, Darkness, pretty dope video too

he was with jaw dropped all the time 😂 Em it's a incredible story teller

He is mortified. I am cracking up. I’m 40 years old. I can’t remember why I walked into a room but I literally just recited every single word of that song as it was playing. I remember the albums having adult supervision on the front here in the UK anyway and our parents went out and bought us the album 😂

We are a rock & roll family but my boys were raised on The Goat 🤘🏼 We love EM 👌🏼

Em has too many good emotional songs. Man has been struggling since he was born, you have so much to choose from.

son looked shook lol

Amazing reaction. He really needs to hear BAD GUY aka Stan part 2 It’s not fast, storytelling at it’s finest and what most consider a top 5 Eminem verse. So glad I found your channel subbed

Now word stan is in dictionary Eminem is a true artist not just Rap

Thank you. I agree 100%. Censored versions of songs can greatly impact the story behind the song. Especially with Eminems songs.

it’s wild that em is the reason we all call crazy fans now STANS

I really liked how the sons reaction to this song. It’s crazy to think at his age I might been like whatever to the lyrics in the sense that a lot of music during that time had great lyrics with dark stories too. It’s great to see how the next generations see this music. I imagine how they would react to Immortal Technique music. Keep up the great work though guys

His songs are amazing React to mv for " when I am gone" and " Mockingbird ".this man is amazing 👏 Also listen to " sing for the moment "

Eminem is the G.O.A.T

the woman in the video is dido where she make a song call Thank You with this song is where born Stan. both eminem and dido after stan they are close friends

Eminem is a great story teller. And alot of rap artist articulate and have slow beats. I wouldn't throw out the whole genre because "you can't understand what they say". Lol!

Pops is putting his son on.. i love this. And yes! No clean eminem reactions

You two look like an American version of Ricky Gervais and Steve merchant from xfm lol. Good reaction.

One connection that was there of Stan driving off the bridge was a reference to the song Kim which you should also do a reaction on also

Stans last verse gor the dude on the right looking shook 😂😂

Z’s face 💀😂

This song made history arguably the best song em has ever written

Another really good story and a pivotal part of eminem is told through Castle and arose it actually bought a tear to my eye at the end the people that say eminem only talks about killing his girlfriend and mum and cant relate have not listened to his songs theres songs for everyone feeling every emotion in his catalogue

And yes this song is what made Stan a common everyday term.

Eminem is the MJ of rap music! GOAT

By the way... dad probably wasn't a "rap fan" ether. (Or maybe he was, since he's Gen X.) I wasn't. Nobody was (in Gen Y). We just heard all the songs as "normal songs". On the normal everyday station that isn't "soft rock" or country, you have La Bouche, Will Smith, Ma$e, Linkin Park, Dr. Dre, Beastie Boys, P.O.D., Real McCoy, Vanilla Ice, Snow, Hollywood Undead, 311, Salt N Pepa, and, of course, Eminem. The only genres that had their own individual stations were country and metal/post-grunge. But really the majority of stuff that isn't played on the "regular" station but is on the rock stations was just "slightly less-famous" songs from the same metal band that we already knew. In 2001, EVERYBODY (in the high school/college) listened to the same songs. There were ZERO people in the school (probably) that "haven't heard X song because X is not my favorite genre". In many cases we didn't even consider genre. Like if you tell us that Lonestar or LeAnn Rimes are called country artists, we'd be very surprised, and in the case of LeAnn we have to go look up her songs if we hear this for the first time in 2014, even though the songs we know by them are also country songs, and Lonestar literally has Texas in their name. Whether you know all of the words to at least 25 rap songs is completely irrelevant to whether you "are a fan of rap" if you are in Generation Y. (And this is a Gen Y song, even though dad is Gen X - because every college kid and everyone under 30 and probably under 35, every generation before millenials, also listed to and liked all of the good music of the era.)

The guy on the left is a great long time listener reactioner. No singing or rapping along, no excessive body movements/dancing, no "heres the best part!" build up ruining.. just lets the song flow, only commenting during the chorus (and keeping it short), and giving the spotlight to the first time listener to do a proper reacting. Great reaction!

This is my first video I’ve seen from y’all. Crazy good reaction, looking forward to seeing more of your content

The censored version leaves out the ending...so much so that reactors completely get the wrong idea about it! They dont understand what really happens at the end! In 2017 ...The term "Stan" was actually added in the Oxford dictionary! Definition: An overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity."! lol. Eminem wrote this song in 2000...22 yrs ago! Since the song was posted on YT in 2009 it has gotten over 500 million views! Was nominated for several awards in the US & Europe! Eminem is a great storyteller!!!

Keep rolling guys! Love it!

eminem is a fkn legend , loved the gen z reaction x

never actually seen the music video for this one. I'm not sure If I want to watch it or not, this song always paints such a vivid picture in my head on every listen.

I love the Em reactions

This was based on a true story

You dont need to put Stan on your playlist. If you're going to put an Eminem song on your playlist, without putting most of them, you'd put "Just Lose It" or "Without Me". But if you want a rap song for your strict metal playlist, that's Hollywood Undead. "Undead" for the most awesome music or "City" for the best lyrics. Of course Linkin Park would be the first rap to come to mind, but if we're trying to be "Dragula" that's Hollywood Undead.

Thanks for sharing🙏

Great reaction. It's always interesting to see people being introduced to Em and his insane skills. If you really wanna go down the Em rabbithole you need to do: Bad guy (Stan pt 2 written after Ems OD and IMO a better song than Stan) When I'm gone Sing for the moment Mocking bird Darkness Those are all storytelling and not to crazy fast

Em is amazing. And honestly, just go in ordrr of his discography.

You absolutely must react to "Bad Guy" now. It's a sequel to this song and it punches the psyche even harder.

It says "explicit" and "dirty version" on so many uploads of Stan which show the video, and... zero of them are. Some have the censored version of the song from the censored album, which at least includes that later explanation of what was in the verse that was censored to the point of where you dont get all the story. But, on the censored part, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS HAVE THE DAD FILL IN THE KARAOKE...

awesome reaction, more eminem please :)

React to mockingbird. It's a song about his daughter

Did you catch Stan in the window of the train staring at em at the end

Kid is shocked by the video 😂 I remember when i first saw the video on MTV

You can just tell he’s been waiting a long time to share this with him. ❤

The “Darkness” video will blow your mind.

Check out eminem Bad guy Its part 2 of stan its 15 years later ..

Hey, I really enjoyed your reaction to this classic. You talked about a high production value and it seems you like deep stuff. So I'd suggest to you reacting together to a German song from the band Rammstein, which is very popular all over the world. The song is called Deutschland (Germany) which is really really deep. It's about mixed emotions for your home country. A lot of people from nearly every country on earth can relate to this. I bet you guys have never seen something similar in your entire life. The production value is far over the top. And the song speaks for itself. Read the lyrics and enjoy the video and the song. You definitely must see that.

I felt so lucky to come here... The best reaction to this song ! Greetings from Malaysia 🌹😎

Hip-Hop in it’s tip top form.

They dont call him the GOAT for nothing

If you listen to rap, you can definitely understand what they're saying, as long as you aren't listening to mumble rap or to ghetto people who you can't understand when they talk without music! It's death metal that you can never understand!

This has to be one of Eminem's top 3 best songs. I'm not gonna pick 1 and 2, but this is definitely one of the top 3. *But it's my No. 1*

The GOAT

Eminem - darkness ❤️🇬🇧🙏🏽

Great video! Next.. Ems Sing for the Moment.. seeing as you guys are rock guys, you'll like that one 😊

Cheers to Dido: whose song is actually quite romantic and optimistic! Got to go, my tea's going cold.

Completely agree, can’t understand why people react to the censored version!! Great job, keep up the great work

I am normally really not a fan of (modern)rap music, I don’t hate it but I wouldn’t listen to it by myself. As I’m guessing your son said, I can’t really follow it or understand what they’re saying so i relate to that. That’s why i mostly only really listen to Eminem. I want to actually listen to what he has to say. So even tho I may be a bit late discovering this video, I’m happy I did 😋 For reference, I usually listen to hard electronic music and preferably from 220 bpm and up, so that doesn’t even come close to rap🤣

STalker fAN

Listen to (bad guy) part 2 of Stan

My first Em song at age 60. I had the same reaction. And then I went down the Em rabbit hole. I found this thru Tom Macdonald’s Dear Slim. Once I heard that I followed it to this and I’ve been discovering Em ever since. Em is a true MC. The BEST. There are none better at this art. This song is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Please react to the sequel "Bad Guy" 🙏🔥 Yall should also react to "Darkness" a very captivating and suspenseful shock valued eye opener, as well. Just subscribed, can't wait to see some more.

Might want to check out, Eminem- "Darkness" official video. Skip the first 10 seconds, that warning spoils the video

Hope u do more Eminem great reaction Til I collapse is one my favorites

MASTERPRICE

You should do bad guy next its part two of stan he raps in the perspective of stans little brother Matthew. Its genius the way he does it

Now do criminal followed by Kim

This is probably my favorite song ever but y’all should check out part 2 to this. It’s called bad guy. I’m subscribing now so I don’t miss it if you do it. Also bad guy came out like fourteen years after Stan.

Music Box - Eminem

Finally someon ewgi reacts to the dirty version

The dude on the right has to be Nicholas Hoult in disguise

I think lyrically it’s the best rap song of all time

The word Stan is in the dictionary ty Em 🐐

No 1 talks about his hairline😮

More Eminem’s please 😊😊

He reacted exactly like me when I first heard the song

If you're rock fans, you should definitely check out his songs that sample rock songs. The one that immediately jumps to my mind is Sing for the Moment.

Pls react to when im gone. It made me tear up

You have to listen to "Bad Guy" since you liked Stan

STAN - STalker fAN

Eminem - darknes

Thanks for saying the clean versions suck! Takes out the power of the story

That's why make this song

You Have To React To Mockingbird Next .

Yall need to check out TOM Macdonalds future version of this song.

can you add Eminem "sing for the moment" dirty version? much appreciated.

Shakespear in modern era 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hi. Welcome to Eminem's reactors world. For being a 1st time, you did well. I suggest you react to NOT AFRAID before you react to the request you've been getting. An 1.6 billion views only in KZfaq. There's a reason for that. I suggest, after that reaction, then react the the request. That way, Eminem's story will make sense. Fun fact Stand was included in the dictionary Can rap 89 words per 12 seconds 2014 Became first rapper to have a concert in Wembley Stadium for which he sold 90+ thousand tickets. What happened after that? A next day concert was added sailing the same amount of tickets 2019 He went on tour and sailing over 300,000 tickets in Australia. Broke record of fans in an event, 82+ thousand fans. The same thing happened across all of Europe The only rapper studied in universities. A Professor from Harvard said Eminem is the best lyricist genius ever. He also share what NOT AFRAID means to them. Also study how he manages the crowds without having 0 negative incidents

Cool genuine reaction! More like Mockinbird and No Appologies

shocked througout the video 😁

The guy on the right to not believe what he is seeing and hearing. His jaw was dropped the entire video.

Eminem is just a great story teller and love to see you ppl the react to songs like kill me and see how mad they get especially says rape his own mother but its all in a joke and funny. everybody just needs to relax

The pregnant gf in the video is Dido they took the chorus from her song thankyou which is really good

It's true art, this type of music is rarely made

Hey react to survival eminem ft rihanna

This song is about mental illness. So of course the average person wouldn't relate to Stan.

I wish gen strawberry reach to Eminem stan song too

Has he heard blackpink, you should react to Blackoink its k pop and gives very fun reactions!