Miller describes his struggle with depression and his desire to escape emotion with verses such as “I just need a way out of my head, / I’ll do anything for a way out of my head” and “Some alternate reality, and I was drowning, but now I’m swimming.” Overall a good, short, and slow song meant more to introduce the listener to Mac’s current state of mind than to boost his chart ranking.
Track One: “Come Back to Earth” Rating 3/5Īs the intro track, this sets the tone for the rest of the album: slower than his previous albums, with a very melodic background and smooth tone, similar in many ways to the work of Frank Ocean. *Notice: These are my ratings of the songs and others will likely have a far different interpretation of the album I was interested to see if the recent surge in numbers was due to mere listener curiosity, or if there was indeed an album I was missing out on. Following his death, however, the album’s stream numbers shot up. Released on August 3, 2018, Swimming was generally thought to be overshadowed by Travis Scott’s Astroworld, which was dropped on the same day.
Nostalgic and seeking a way to pay my respects, I took the time to listen to and review Miller’s last album, Swimming. After hearing about his death, I scrolled throughout my SoundCloud playlist and, sure enough, the second song I ever liked was Miller’s single, “Senior Skip Day” (ironic, as the year he died is the year I finally became a senior).
#WHY DID MAC MILLER DIE FREE#
This death of a famous artist is, however, only one of many in recent months fellow rappers Lil Peep, XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo have also died in the past year.Īlthough I would never claim he was one of my favorite artists (posthumous bandwagoning has reached epidemic proportions in recent years, and it infuriates me), to me, Mac Miller represented and still represents free living, summer fun. After paramedics arrived, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Only 26-year-old Malcolm James McCormick, known more commonly as Mac Miller, was found unresponsive in his residence due to apparent drug overdose. On September 7, 2018, the world tragically lost another young artist.
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