Video Analysis 3 (Eminem - Beautiful)

The name of the song that I have chosen to analyse is beautiful by Eminem. This song is part of Eminems recent ‘Relapse’ album which was released in, May 2009 and was considered as one of the best songs on the album. The video was shot in Detroit and was directed by Anthony Mandler, it first premiered on Yahoo Music in, July 2009.

The song is about Eminem’s feelings of people being put down, this is shown in the lyrics when Eminem says; “And don’t let em say you aint beautiful” this song is also about Eminem making a crucial decision regarding his next album, this is again shown in the lyrics when he says “I don’t know how or why I when I ended up in this position im in, I started to feel dissin again so I decided to pick up this pen up, and try to make an attempt to vent, but I just cant admit or come to grips with the fact that I may be done with rap I need a new outlet.” You can see that Eminem no longer has the inspiration that he once had in the lyrics of this song, and that he is not sure about continuing his music career. This song is also about Eminem being on his own lately and becoming more independent as a person, we see this in the opening lyrics when he says “lately I been hard to reach, I been too long on my own, everybody ha s their private world, when they can be alone” this shows that at times Eminem likes to be on his own.

This video is Eminem representing him being independent because he is on his own in a brokenndown warehouse, which is very derelict and somewhere that people are not allowed to be, the video shows in many ways him being on his own through eye contact and lip syncing, walking on his own and rapping is a very independent look that goes with the independent lyrics.

The first 45 seconds of the video is just setting the scene, we see Eminem walk past a lady and she totally ignores him, giving the first signs that Eminem is individual and no one takes note of him any more, then we get into the music and we understand why the video is doing this. The lyrics “lately ive been hard to reach” give the audience the impression that if the lady that he walked past wanted to talk to him then she would not have been able to because he is ‘hard to reach’. In the second 45 seconds of the video we see Eminem come into his element, he raps for the whole 45 seconds about taking his responsibilities and we see that he has suffered from some of them because of the lyrics we here and the actions that we see, the lyric that shows he suffers are; “I took my bruises, took my lumps. Fell down and then got right back up”. This shows that he has suffered but is prepared to get back up and deal with life as it comes, during these lyrics we see him