Eminem Recounts Recording Blunder of ‘Stan’ in Genius Annotations
A year ago, Eminem posted a song annotation for his influential single “Stan” on the website Genius. At the time, he wrote about how listening to Dido’s “Thank You” affected the theme for his 2000 track off of The Marshall Mathers LP.
Yesterday, Eminem came back to Genius to add more details about the song’s production. This time he’s recounting the story of how a baked sound engineer accidentally recorded over part of the third verse from “Stan” and almost ruined the record. Eminem concluded the annotation, “The first half of the verse was GONE. I re-recorded it but you should have heard the original take that shit was WAY better…oh well!”
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