Everyone Wants A Relatioship Like This – Viral Words = Viral Video

I first posted this on Twitter. My pitch was: Everyone wants a relationship like this….The source was from Route Note Blog Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna

What’s amazing about this viral video is that it can pass through all cultures. Everyone can relate to this since it involves strong emotions. Emotions of being in love and emotions of hating that same person you love deeply. From the time of this post, it’s no wonder it has 127 million views since it’s released on YouTube August 06, 2010.

From The Time of This Post – Stats For This Video Since It’s Inception:

127,402,074 views

47,519 shares in the last 24 hours

3,171,379 Facebook shares

19,903 Tweets

5,020 Blog posts including mine

You can get more information from Viral Video Chart.

What makes this video so viral?

When I look at an artist, I look what they write about. What’s their story? Did they have much pain in their life? Struggles?

Though I’ve always admired great lyricists and songwriters, I’d never heard anyone able to effectively bring out and indulge satire, rage, sorrow, shame, guilt, regret, power, passion, loneliness, bravado, stupidity, genius, leadership, idiocy, misogyny, sympathy and, believe it or not, tender compassion. The dude is a genius.

Marshall Mathers is a lyrical sniper with a shotgun, and vents more in a few hundred words than many are able to effectively communicate in pages of copy. When I listen to an Eminem record, I’m hearing a man who cares about every single syllable and the exact tone of its delivery.

This isn’t to say all his songs are good. In fact, each album has a handful of songs I find both repugnant and unendurable. Yet they are always peppered against gems of absolute genius.

Eminem is a complicated artist, and could easily provoke pages of arguments on his positives, negatives and overall impact on our culture for better or worse. But as a writer, few can touch what he’s managed to accomplish.