When the rapper Eminem published the video for his song “Beautiful” in summer 2009, the mood in his hometown Detroit Desolat was. The car company General Motors, whose headquarters in the Renaissance Center high -rise complex is one of the landmarks of the American metropolis, had submitted an bankruptcy application a few weeks earlier. The Eminem video fit the sadness. In the beginning, the sentence is shown as a memory of glorious times: “In 1950 Detroit was the largest industrial city in the world.” Then Eminem can be seen how he goes into a notorious industrial ruin, the Michigan Central train station, which was disused in 1988 in the oldest quarter of Detroit. In the middle of rubble, puddles and graffiti, Eminem raps: “I’m just so fucking depressed” – “I’m just so damn depressed”.
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