According to The Guardian, Eminem’s “Stan” was unlike most mainstream hit songs in the story it chose to tell. It follows the story of Stanley Mitchell, who claims to be Eminem’s biggest fan.

Watch the video for Stan, from 2000. Warning: Third party content, may contain ads The lyrics to the original song tell the story of how a fan gets so upset that Eminem isn't writing back to him ...

Everybody is a fan of something — from authors to singers to quarterbacks — but for some, the fandom becomes a second life.