Remix & Remediation

 https://www.whosampled.com/sample/104/Eminem-Dido-Stan-Dido-Thank-You/ 

My first artifact is a song titled "Stan" by Detroit rapper, Eminem, featuring Dido. The song uses a spoken word style approach where the artist tells a story using his song. The story tells about an obsessive fan (Stanley) who writes to his favorite singer (Eminem). With each unreplied letter, the fan progressively gets more frustrated until he reaches a breaking point. The fan ties up his girlfriend in the back of a car trunk and drives off a bridge. When Eminem finally does reply to his fan it's too late, and he hears about Stan and his girlfriend's death on the news. I really like this song, it's such a classic. The song, "Stan" samples British singer, Dido's 1998 song "Thank You." Only the chorus is sampled. I watched an interview that was created back in 2000 that explains why Eminem created the song. In the interview, he states how he got letters from fans who are actually hyper-devoted to him. His message to them was not to take everything he says literally.  Stan has had so much influence on the culture at the time that the work has been added to the English lexicon, meaning "an fan who is overly obsessed with a celebrity." This artificate has a materality, functionality, and intentiality. The song was created at Aftermath Studio on his Mathers LP album. If you haven't listened to this song yet I recommend that you do.

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My second artifact is a meme from a Lipton tea campaign video in 2014. The character is from the popular  "Muppets" movie series. In this image we can see beloved character, Kermit the frog, sipping a cup of Lipton tea. This meme can be used in a number of ways for a variety of reasons. It can be used after insulting somone or pointing out something ridiculous. My favorite use of this meme is that, while you have no intention of gossiping yourself, you're happy to sit back and let the gossip "spill" over you. As a bonus, originally I thought the term "spill the tea" derived from this meme. However, apparently it came from a book from 1994 titled "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." A character told another character to "spill the T" which means spill the truth. Later this was turned into "spill the tea" because it's funnier. So in the sense the term "spill the tea" sampled the term "spill the T"

https://giphy.com/gifs/kiss-toradora-aisaka-taiga-MQVpBqASxSlFu

Last, but certainly not the least is a gif from my favorite anime, Toradora, You know, sometimes I regret posting my work late. Had I posted earlier I probably could've sparked a conversation about anime with someone. Toradora is a highschool romance/comedy anime created in 2008. Here's the synopsis from the IMDB website: "Ryuji Takasu high school student looks mean even though he is a nice guy. He meets Taiga Aisaka a girl who overcompensates for her small stature. Both are romantically interested in a close friend of the other's and so reluctantly agree to help one another." It was created by animation studio JC Staff. The anime is an adaptation of the light novel (book) with the same name. Sadly I cannot find an interview that explained why Japansese writer, Yuyuko Takemiya created the book and what inspirations he used to create his work.