Relapse: The Album

Relapse is Eminem's sixth studio album and it was released on May 15th 2009, It came out after a four year hiatus in which the rapper had drug addiction problems and writers block. The album was produced by Eminem , Dr Dre and Mark Batson. The album came soon after Eminem's drug rehabilitation, his second divorce with Kimberly Scott and the death of his close friend DeShaun 'Proof' Holton.
The album sort of follows a narrative, which talks about his drug rehabilitation, him rapping after his non-fictional relapse and the return of Slim Shady. The album starts off with a skit in which we see untrustworthy drug counselor forces Eminem back into his drug addiction and the return to his slim shady character. The album then goes to Eminem explaining the reasons behind his drug problem, the album the goes onto slag off other celebrities who have had rehab problems and also talks about controversial topics. In the skit 'Mr Mathers' we see Eminem being recovered to a hospital where he looks back at the time during his drug problem and his dependency upon the sleeping pills. Eminem then brings in the song beautiful in which Eminem gets rid of the slim shady persona and talks about there being hope when you are in a dark place.
The album had positive critical response and it went to number 1 in nine different countries however many said that this was not quite the return of form that people were expecting. the album overall still did really well within the charts.

Questionaire Results

	How old are you?	What is your gender?	How much of an effect do you think a music video adds to the music itself?	Have you previously heard of the song ‘Beautiful’ by Eminem?	What do you find most appealing about music videos?	Who is your favourite U.S. rapper?	What attracts you most to a music video?	How often do you listen to American Hip-Hop music?	What is your favourite music genre?
1	17	Male	A great  amount	Yes	The visual effects	Eminem	The artist	Everyday	Hip-Hop
2	17	Male	A great amount	No	A story narrative	Eminem	The music video	A fair amount	Hip-Hop
3	18	Female	A fair amount	No	The art direction	Nicki Minaj	The artist	Not often	R n B
4	16	Female	A great amount	Yes	The visual effects	Jay-z	The promotion	Quite frequently	Grime
5	17	Male	A fair amount	Yes	The choreography	Nicki Minaj	The music	Quite frequently	Hip-Hop
6	16	Male	A fair amount	Yes	The choreography	Jay-z	The music	Everyday	Grime
7	18	Female	A great amount	No	A story narrative	Emienm	The music	Everyday	R n B
8	18	Male	A great amount	Yes	The choreography	Other	The artist	Not often	Rock
9	17	Female	A great amount	No	A story narrative	Eminem	The music	Quite frequently	R n B
10	17	Male	A great amount	Yes	A story narrative	Eminem	The music video	Everyday	Hip-Hop
11	17	Male	A great amount	Yes	The videos message	Rick Ross	The artist	Everyday	R n B
12	17	Male	A great amount	No	The choreography	Other	The music video	Quite frequently	R n B
13	18	Male	A fair amount	Yes	A story narrative	Eminem	The music	Not often	R n B
14	17	Male	A great amount	Yes	The videos message	Eminem		Everyday	Hip-Hop
15	18	Male	A great amount	Yes	A story narrative	Eminem		Quite frequently	Hip-Hop

From the results we learn that our target audience was mainly males aged 17. We also found out that our artist was very popular among audiences, which said he was their favourite U.S Rapper. The survey helped us as we knew what to focus upon during the production of the music video, as we found out that the art direction and the story narrative and we have decided to focus upon this during our production.