He got sober and made albums about happiness and devotion and love. Mac Miller made the biggest leap he'd ever make. Mac saw his fanbase clamouring for darker, sadder, more drug-fucked music, unknowing or maybe uncaring of the cost, and he did something in response which always makes me smile. But I don't quote it here just to kill your vibe. That quote is, I think, the saddest thing in Mac Miller's discography, because it makes it perfectly clear he knew that the drugs that eventually took his life also powered his artistic evolution. I don't have to go all genius-annotations-conspiracy on you to illustrate how Mac's evolution as a person was paralleled by the meteoric changes in his sound - he did that for us himself, all the time. The thing I'm talking about is how Miller compulsively, almost pathologically put himself under the microscope, celebrating wins but exposing flaws, shockingly honest about the parts of himself he wanted to change and the demons he knew would always hinder that. Maybe the most compelling thing about an evolution that, even cut unfairly short, looks now like one of the most impressive and unique in music today. The quote above is from Faces, but beyond the obvious relevance to Circles, it illustrates something about Mac Miller I find utterly compelling. Review Summary: A shame that my tragedy my masterpiece.
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