“I was known as being this little white kid who could rap,” Miller told The Fader, in a cover story from 2013.
He took piano lessons, quickly taught himself the guitar and the drums, and started rapping at the age of fourteen. Born Malcolm McCormick, he was raised in Pittsburgh by a photographer mother and an architect father. “And I don’t want just sadness either.”Įarnestness marked Miller’s career from the start. “I really wouldn’t want just happiness,” he said. He also touched, indirectly, on the topic of depression. They’re like ‘Yo, man, are you okay?’ I’m like ‘Yeah, I’m fucking at the grocery store.’ ”). Miller discussed the HBO documentary “The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling” (“He was always writing the words, ‘Just be Garry.’ ‘Just be Garry.’ And that shit struck a chord with me”) and the expectations placed on artists by their fans (“It’s annoying to be out and have someone come up to me and think they know. On Thursday, Vulture published a hybrid profile and interview by the music journalist Craig Jenkins. Just this past week, Miller had seemed tenderly alive. He was supposed to start a tour in October. The album seemed to invite an eventual follow-up, a chronicling of the adrift artist reaching some shore. “Swimming,” released in August, was a dispatch from a young man embracing his own mysteries. As he evolved-and he never stopped evolving-he became a bard of post-adolescent rootlessness, comfortable in a tense, liminal space between fear and awe. It’s not a force as neat or definitive as hope that is propelling Miller upward.
The song’s drowsy beat makes an unexpected lurch, near the end, turning from claustrophobic to weightless: Miller is now singing of “oblivion, yeah, yeah, yeah.” In the video, he bursts from his premature tomb, in a cloud of earth and dust, and floats up into the atmosphere. (A statement by Miller’s family did not name the cause of death.) In the last video that Miller shot, for “Self Care,” an existential spiral of a song from his latest album, “Swimming,” Miller is lying in his own coffin, puffing on a cigarette, carving “ Memento Mori” into its wooden ceiling, seeming nonplussed by it all. TMZ, which has in the past decade perfected a crude art of celebrity death-chasing, broke the news fans speculated that the artist, who spoke publicly about his struggles with addiction, had died of an accidental overdose. On Friday afternoon, the rapper and producer Mac Miller was found dead in his San Fernando Valley home. “And I don’t want just sadness either.” Photograph by Jamie McCarthy / Getty The album’s 12 tracks chart a vast expanse of moods and textures, from its ominous opening to its closing resolve-running the gamut from paranoia and obsession to catharsis and joy, and hitting myriad points between.“I really wouldn’t want just happiness,” the twenty-six-year-old rapper Mac Miller said, in an interview published on Thursday, the day before his death. Produced by James Ford, with additional production work by Marta Salogni, Memento Mori's gestation took place during the early stages of the Covid pandemic, resulting in themes inspired directly by that period. Memento Mori is Depeche Mode's 15th studio album and its first as a two-piece lineup of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, following co-founder Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher’s tragic passing in 2022. Random Access Memories: 10th Anniversary Edition įlying Games LOVE AGAIN (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
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