Music

Characteristics
By Brodie
 Genre Characteristics
• This is a rap song.

• He is mostly rapping in a trailer park, but the music video also

shows other places like a toilet, a small area, on the bus etc.
• The Music video is mostly in dark areas except for some bits of
the music video where it’s in the movie
Relationship between Lyrics and Visuals
• The relationship between the lyrics and visuals are important in
this video
• When he says “Vomit on his sweater already” he is shown
vomiting in the video
• When he says “he looks calm and ready” it shows him looking
calm and ready but nervous on the inside
• When he says “there goes gravity” he is seen throwing another
person on to a car and when he says “there goes rabbit” he is
shown leaving
• When he says, “barely knows his own daughter”, he is shown
with his younger sibling as she is staring at him

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Lyric
Interpretation

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Relationship Between the
Music and Visuals
• Most of the music video is set in the dark
• Eminem is moving rougher for those rougher
moments of the song
• There is also a lot of more violent bits of the films
in the rougher moments of the song

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Demands of • You see Eminem in a more gangster kind of
clothing as he is wearing baggy jeans and a

the Record beanie in this music video

• He is also wearing a watch as well
Label

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 Artist • Eminem is wearing dark clothes to fit the dark
scene

Iconography • And like before, he is wearing clothes seen by

gangsters as he is from the 8 mile road in Detroit

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Voyeurism • There is no voyeurism in this video as this music
video is more on Eminem’s point of view on not
giving up
• Voyeurism is more common in female music
videos than male music videos as to attract the
male audience into the video.

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Intertextuality
The music video has a lot of
clips of the Movie: 8 Mile
which the song was created
for

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