Eminem officially premiered his new music video for the song “Space Bound” on Monday.
The Joseph Kahn-directed video, shot in February, features the rapper battling his demons, which ultimately ends with shocking results.
The song, similar to the theme of his previous hit “Love The Way You Lie,” tells the story of a relationship where the rapper would do anything to keep his girl in his life before it ends.
The video begins on a dark foggy road, where the rapper is approached by a car. Eminem’s love interest, porn star Sasha Grey, is behind the wheel. Once inside the car, an alternate Eminem appears. While the mellower rapper sits in the passenger seat, the angered Eminem spits expletives at his girlfriend from the back seat while a gun sits in the glove compartment.
Grey and Eminem arrive at a diner where the screen splits, and the two Eminems go their separate ways. The mellow Eminem joins Grey in a booth, while the alternate, more human Eminem sits at the counter.
The mellow Eminem finds out his girlfriend is cheating when he looks in her phone after she gets up, and that is where he begins to fall apart.
Events are foreshadowed in his lyrics: “I’ll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms.”
When the rapper and Grey go to a motel, he remembers the gun in the car and the text he found that revealed his girlfriend had cheated. He attacks his girlfriend, only to find she’s not really there. It is then, as he sings, “Tears stream down both of my cheeks, then I let you go and just give. And before I put that gun to my temple, I told you this,” he puts a gun to his chin and pulls the trigger. He, along with the alternate version of himself, who stayed at the diner, fall backwards. After that moment, the video rewinds and all the events that played out are shown in reverse.
The end of the video ends right where it began: on that foggy road. It is left with an open-ended conclusion leaving fans to wonder if it all happened, or if it was all just in his head.
Source is http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/eminem-commits-suicide-new-music-video-space-bound-06-27-2011
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