To be explicitly clear, I’m not putting any blame on his ex for what happened. Specifically, I was trying to get over a breakup, and I knew that Mac Miller was probably going through the same thing, so I checked the song out. Personal self care was the name of the game in the summer of 2018. Miller, but it seems like this specific song was looking for me. I didn’t really look into him until the song “Self Care” came out a staggering seven years later. My interest was caught up in other popular upcoming artist at the time, the Young Money collective, OFWGKTA, and I also have the habit of replaying the same 10 songs ad-nauseam. What high schooler doesn’t want to watch cartoons and “take over the world?” It’s something I needed as I had just moved to New York from a small cul-de-sac in the South, and was feeling out of place.īut I didn’t pay much more attention to him. It has this sort of playful carefree air about it, with the chanting children singing “la la-la” and Mac talking about watching cartoons.
When Mac’s song “Donald Trump” shuffled into my headphones, I loved it as soon as the beat drop hit. Around that time I was actively trying to branch out my interest in music, which meant allowing Spotify to shuffle wherever it willed. Somewhere in the soundtrack of my life, within the locked high school archives, the song “Donald Trump” is playing and I’m probably staring at a blank Word document.
I consider Mac Miller to be a part of my formative years. Mac’s streaming numbers jumped 970% posthumous according to Billboard, and he most likely gained a lot of new fans, including myself.
But the alternative, silence, gives their soul no memorial. It’s a sort of final upheaval, their life’s last thrash into the air as the body falls and the earth jumps in response. I agree, it’s tragic how some artist are only appreciated after their death.
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