I chose the song Monster by Rihanna and Eminem. Eminem and Rihanna have different musical styles, Eminem is a rapper and Rihanna is known for singing pop. Rihanna and Eminem have collaborated for multiple songs, but this song is a good representation of collaboration because they are discussing difficult topics like mental health and the struggles of fame and relating their own struggles to each other. In the song Eminem sings about the difficulties of living in fame and what it can do to a person and Rihanna talks about her own personal struggles with mental health which are represented in the song as monsters under her bed. They sing about the balance between success and fame, and sanity and insanity. . I love when artists with different styles work together to make a song because it brings in different sounds to make something new. This is a good lesson for professional collaboration because a coworker or colleague will probably bring some new knowledge to the table that you do not have and vice versa. Collaborating with other minds always results in an abundance of more knowledge and ideas than you would have just thinking about something on your own.
Wonderful and creative! Thanks for sharing this; what a beautiful way to think about collaboration. I will never listen to the song quite the same way.
Thank you for your reply! I agree, after learning more about the long I listen to it differently as well. I enjoyed picking a song because often we don’t think about meanings behind songs or why different artists collaborate.