Music is an art and one of the many things that hold it up are the listeners; you for starters. You might have come across the word “Stan” which was first used after Eminem released the hit song, outlining how much a particular fan was willing to do to meet with his favourite artiste.
There are mere fans and there are stans; here’s how to become a stan.
- Discover your fave.
You should understand that you cannot afford to stan nonsense in this music game or you’ll be dragged every time you breathe and end up crying to your mommy every other day, so you should put in efforts into choosing who your favourite artiste would be. You can start from here:
- Stream all their music
After choosing who you have decided to talk about for the rest of your music life without stopping, and stand before with reverence, it’s time to support them as much as you can with streaming across all platforms. Don’t be a detty person that uses the backyard of the internet for illegal streams; your fave might just drink garri all his life.
- Buy every Merch that has their face on it
One of the common things that stans do is to request for Merch. They sing it all day, and swear that that bucket cap or plain t-shirt with an image of their fave is going to bring them good luck and change their lives forever. Join the conversation and order everything they sell.
- Tattoo their face on yourself
This is the ultimate level of stanship. After doing this, all that is left is to join your fave on stage and become their bestie. You can choose to do a little face, or draw their whole album cover on your back with proper ink. Whatever you do, try to make sure you’re paying well for it, because some of you end up drawing a SpongeBob face on your back and call it Big Wiz.
- Organise town hall meetings in their name
If you get to this level, you are literally a god in stanship. Print out banners when they’re about to come for a show and add your name to the end; sponsored by you and your gang. Open multiple accounts on social media to protect their integrity and create groups to identify new methods of bowing at the feet of your favourite artiste.