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    Eminem's music video for "The Monster" helps tell the story of the song. It shows Eminem drifting away while in a therapy session with Rihanna. Through flashbacks on a TV, it depicts highlights of Eminem's career. It features lip syncing from Eminem and Rihanna during their parts. The video has Eminem traveling down an elevator and confronting his alter ego "Slim Shady," representing the monster within him that drives his music. By showing Eminem's past and his struggle with this monster, the video provides deeper meaning to accompany the song.

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    Eminem's music video for "The Monster" helps tell the story of the song. It shows Eminem drifting away while in a therapy session with Rihanna. Through flashbacks on a TV, it depicts highlights of Eminem's career. It features lip syncing from Eminem and Rihanna during their parts. The video has Eminem traveling down an elevator and confronting his alter ego "Slim Shady," representing the monster within him that drives his music. By showing Eminem's past and his struggle with this monster, the video provides deeper meaning to accompany the song.

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    Eminem's music video for "The Monster" helps tell the story of the song. It shows Eminem drifting away while in a therapy session with Rihanna. Through flashbacks on a TV, it depicts highlights of Eminem's career. It features lip syncing from Eminem and Rihanna during their parts. The video has Eminem traveling down an elevator and confronting his alter ego "Slim Shady," representing the monster within him that drives his music. By showing Eminem's past and his struggle with this monster, the video provides deeper meaning to accompany the song.

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    Eminem's music video for "The Monster" helps tell the story of the song. It shows Eminem drifting away while in a therapy session with Rihanna. Through flashbacks on a TV, it depicts highlights of Eminem's career. It features lip syncing from Eminem and Rihanna during their parts. The video has Eminem traveling down an elevator and confronting his alter ego "Slim Shady," representing the monster within him that drives his music. By showing Eminem's past and his struggle with this monster, the video provides deeper meaning to accompany the song.

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    Music Video Review- Eminem’s ‘The Monster’

    Video Link:​ ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHkozMIXZ8w

    Music is an artform which acts as an outlet for the artists to express themselves in their

    respective songs. These songs guide the listener to see what the artist was trying to convey

    through their music. However, one can only listen for the themes and messages of the song. So

    when these songs are paired with film, the listener can then fully experience and understand the

    artist's vision. This is the case for Eminem’s ‘The Monster’ where the music video helps tell the

    story of the song. Starting with the intro of the video as Rihanna who is a feature and is on the

    hook of the song, acts as Eminem’s therapist. Eminem is being put in some sort of trance as he

    drifts away to the sound of ticking. A TV is on which displays text and videos which represents

    Eminem's career up to this point. This also perfectly opens up the video as the rest mirrors the

    intro, as it also goes through Eminem's whole career. The outro ends with the song as Eminem

    walks away from his alter ego character ‘Slim Shady’ which shows him moving on from this part

    of his life. The text is very minimal since the video takes on more of a cinematic tone and tells

    the story through imagery. The only text is at the beginning which is shown on the TV and

    serves as a guide through the videos which are displaying Eminem’s life. Texts such as

    Violence, Family, and Addiction pop up which Eminem’s life directly relates to. A lot of the video

    contains lip syncing even though Eminem is going through all these different locations, it still

    shows him lip syncing while he’s doing these things. The flashbacks to iconic moments of his

    career also contain lip syncing for example, a 2003 version of Eminem will be shown lip syncing

    to the song. Rihanna who is on the hook of the song, will also be shown lip syncing whenever

    her part comes on. There isn’t too much B-Roll as most of the video contains either lip syncing

    or clips that show the progression of the story. However, the B-Roll present establishes

    locations and shows details which further the storyline present through the video. For instance,

    in the intro a Newton's Cradle is shown ticking which establishes how it’s being used to put
    Eminem in a trance. Also, whenever a new location of Eminem’s past is shown there is usually a

    B-Roll clip establishing that location to let the viewer know what's happening. As for camera

    shots, there are many close ups used whenever establishing key details such as the Newton’s

    Cradle in the intro, and Eminem’s emotions as he is witnessing these events to show the viewer

    what he is going through. Medium shots are used for the majority of the film and these shots are

    used whenever someone is shown lip syncing, and also in other story moments of the video.

    Also, long shots are used from time to time and they are mostly used when establishing a

    location, since it will first use a long shot to show Eminem in a specific time and then switch to a

    medium. The film contains a storyline rather than random footage pieced together to make a

    music video. The storyline starts with the intro when Eminem goes into a trance which tells the

    viewer that this music video is happening inside his head. Eminem is shown to be in an elevator

    in which he is going down and seeing the highlights of his career. He finally arrives at the

    bottom where he sees some sort of caged monster which relates to the song. The monster is

    revealed to be his alter ego ‘Slim Shady’ which has been there throughout his career. His alter

    ego is played by himself, and Eminem is supposed to be the person who keeps feeding this

    monster with fame and all the things that go along. This ‘monster’ will then keep the songs

    coming as ‘Slim Shady’ is seen tossing a paper with lyrics out to Eminem. This makes the song

    and video correlate as they both help tell this story about ‘The Monster’ which may just be

    Eminem himself. Personally I would connect the outro more to the intro of the song as the idea

    of a therapy session is introduced as the intro, but the video never comes back to it. Overall, I

    thought the video was great as it added more to the song rather than just being a bunch of

    random footage of people singing along pieced together. I would score Eminem’s ‘The Monster’

    a 9.5/10.

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