sometimes mac’s death hits me harder some days and i viewed this album exactly as you did…the dark undertones that if you didn’t understand, sounded bright and hopeful. i’ve never seen a video that did mac so much justice and touched me so much. thank you for this
since the day i discovered mac miller his music spoke to me he had a song that perfectly matched every emotion i had i know a lot of people say this but when he spoke monotonously into a microphone it felt like he was speaking to me idk what im saying but it resonates you know
I became a Mac Miller fan after his passing and I like to analyse and feel the music and art he created por him and for us, you brought me to tears so many times, great video, can't wait for circles because sometimes, I see circles like a Mac's future version talking to the Mac's past versions to find some relief, and if he was swimming in circles, we can see him talking to himself alone in a room trying to figure out a reason to keep going
In a way I envy you man, it's very cool that you got to experience him none the less and to have an almost outsiders perspective with listening to him after the matter of him being gone. But in a way i feel grateful to have been listening to him for awhile until he passed, but where the envy comes in for you is from how hard it was to come to terms with his passing after attaching myself to him and his music. Im glad that in a way you were saved that kind of pain because man that shit was hard when he went
Absolutely beautiful video. It gave me a deeper understanding to an album that I already thought I had fully cracked, Swimming In Circles is my favourite piece of art ever and it hurts me daily to know it's the last new idea we will ever receive from Mac. 🕊️♾️
The whole album is the end of small world. The description you gave of that ending, being someone who's struggled with addiction and imprisonment over a 20 year span, I am constantly interpreting the meaning behind his lyrics, he completes the circle many times throughout the album. Swimming in Circles is a perfect title for the pair, ongoing circles at a skew is a spiral, the entire album is a spiral.
You legit (I have and so did he) get to the point where you know without question, the day you die will be the happiest moment of your life. And think about it, if you believe in "going to heaven" it shouldn't matter how incredibly happy your life may have been, dying "and going to heaven" will always without be the happiest moment of your life. And you say he writes in the album expressing where he wants to be. You're right it's sad, but some of us look forward to death and some of us are ready now.....
I felt this darker undertone on this album that I quite couldn’t put my finger on. This video did a good job on uncovering this type of scenario where things weren’t good at all for Mac. Seeing as he was at a point of no return.. Great breakdown in this video 🫡
I love videos like these artists drop music and it’s your job to make your own meaning behind the lyrics. Whether or not that artist says what it means it’s interesting to see how other people take it
Maybe it was his way of coming to a point of making peace with it rather than being at a point of wanting for it to happen already… either way its hauntingly beautiful vulnerable and brave. Hope you’re at peace Malcolm☁️
Good video man. Though i don't think mac was ready to die at all. My perception from the album(s) are that going out like that was the exact way he did NOT want to go. He was found in a praying postion. Swimming to me is an album, serving as a sort of rebirth. As this surely wasn't meant for mac to be his final album. IMO!
Mac spoke/rapped of looking for God and even said that the answers are very possibly in the Bible. It’s possible he knew what was happening in his final moments and was praying as a last effort to make it to a place where he would have peace (heaven)
I've only watched a lil bit of your Kendrick video and the first few minutes of this one, but DAMN. You're the best at these music based video essays I've ever seen by far bro. Keep em coming.
Hi. There were a few times that I wanted to tell you that you were analyzing the details too much, but that's a fault of my character, not yours. I'm grateful that I listened to your entire video bcuz you know a lot about him and I learn more when I stfu. I was very impressed with the fact that you're studying theology or something similar and either that includes Buddhism or someone taught you about the truths. Life is Samsara and when you also have the disease of addiction, you rarely find a release from that suffering bcuz you've already found, been using, and are a slave to another circle or problem. When your mind creates the pain/release or pleasure/ reward circuit, the habit makes it almost impossible to even see new routes. He didn't want to stop using even though it didn't bring him relief anymore but he did want something better, but he'd never known anything really without some distraction. Sorry for the long msg, but he got everything he wanted, and he never had to grow old. Sounds fckin great to me. I talk to him sometimes, but I'd bet he decided to be reincarnated and has been back for more years than ppl think. Idk, great review, bruva. W/♡,G
Can you stop making such insightful beautiful videos! All seriousness thank you for the work you do with this channel. The real breakdowns of the whole picture is amazing. Rest in peace Mac, thank you too.
5:41 I think Good News sounded semi-ethereal, and calm, not fearful or “dark” as a sound in comparison to the lyrics. And as someone who knows personally, I believe it’s because Mac had found that tranquility of finally realizing you are going to let go for good. It’s a disturbingly peacefully beautiful sensation somehow.
This is one of my favorite record definitely my favorite from mac. This vid was beautifully done man. Just found your channel started cause the tyler shooting vid caught my attention. Glad i found your channel, keep up the good work man. Also that bit at the end about life is suffering, I grew up around alot of buddisht monks and mostly what they teach is life is suffering and we must finds peace first within ourselve and help the others around us do the same and if when you cant it is what it is, as long as you try and your mindful of it.
Amazing video for amazing artist RIP Mac. A lot of us artists are torchured souls on the low. That beautiful relatability in the creativity . That shit is awesome. Mac Miller is a philosopher in a way.
i wish you would’ve mentioned macs “wings” playing in the section “ascension to heaven” on so it goes. it’s a crazy detail he put in to kind of hint at his own demise.
iv been listening to loyle carner recently (a british artist) hes got an album called not waving but drowning and thats more of what i think swimming is than an album to show he was hiding his drug usage. from the outside world he looked like he was swimming through life waving at the listeners but in his own world he was drowning slowly. and i think circles added to swimming more shows the drowing instead of waving that swimming was
Thanks friend! Altogether it probably takes about 20 hours to make a video. Writing takes the most time, and editing isn't something I necessarily enjoy lol
@@JacksonsMusicPalate I thought so, I can tell it's a lot of detail lol, shit you cold at this though looking forward to the vids you drop in da future 💯
Ima be honest, I don’t agree with the main statement your trying to say, Macs own mother said that he didn’t want to die, his cause of death was ACCIDENTAL OVERDOES, he didn’t know it had fentanyl in the drug which is what killed him, he was trying to move past his demons and get better, he himself in a interview said that he prefer to be a corny white rapper than the guy who’s addicted to drugs and dies from an overdose. That’s just my two cents but let’s keep it chill from now
Yeaaa Mac didn’t learn from history 🤦♂️ you have a lot of good points but half the stuff you say is just embarrassing trying to dissect another human being.
Damn you diss Mac a lot in this video!! 28:13 . It’s funny when people act like they know so much about someone. SMH!… Decent video but this is extremely disrespectful!
You did Mac justice on this vid. You could really feel his pain and relate with him in this struggle we call life. Thank you
sometimes mac’s death hits me harder some days and i viewed this album exactly as you did…the dark undertones that if you didn’t understand, sounded bright and hopeful. i’ve never seen a video that did mac so much justice and touched me so much. thank you for this
since the day i discovered mac miller his music spoke to me he had a song that perfectly matched every emotion i had i know a lot of people say this but when he spoke monotonously into a microphone it felt like he was speaking to me idk what im saying but it resonates you know
I became a Mac Miller fan after his passing and I like to analyse and feel the music and art he created por him and for us, you brought me to tears so many times, great video, can't wait for circles because sometimes, I see circles like a Mac's future version talking to the Mac's past versions to find some relief, and if he was swimming in circles, we can see him talking to himself alone in a room trying to figure out a reason to keep going
In a way I envy you man, it's very cool that you got to experience him none the less and to have an almost outsiders perspective with listening to him after the matter of him being gone. But in a way i feel grateful to have been listening to him for awhile until he passed, but where the envy comes in for you is from how hard it was to come to terms with his passing after attaching myself to him and his music. Im glad that in a way you were saved that kind of pain because man that shit was hard when he went
It’s so personal, his whole career. I really feel like he was trying to put you in his shoes for better or worse.
One of the best videos I've watched on youtube in a long time
youtube's algorithm did me dirty, bruh this vid is so good! more power to you brother!
Absolutely beautiful video. It gave me a deeper understanding to an album that I already thought I had fully cracked, Swimming In Circles is my favourite piece of art ever and it hurts me daily to know it's the last new idea we will ever receive from Mac. 🕊️♾️
The whole album is the end of small world. The description you gave of that ending, being someone who's struggled with addiction
and imprisonment over a 20 year span, I am constantly interpreting the meaning behind his lyrics, he completes the circle many times throughout the album. Swimming in Circles is a perfect title for the pair, ongoing circles at a skew is a spiral, the entire album is a spiral.
You legit (I have and so did he) get to the point where you know without question, the day you die will be the happiest moment of your life. And think about it, if you believe in "going to heaven" it shouldn't matter how incredibly happy your life may have been, dying "and going to heaven" will always without be the happiest moment of your life. And you say he writes in the album expressing where he wants to be. You're right it's sad, but some of us look forward to death and some of us are ready now.....
I felt this darker undertone on this album that I quite couldn’t put my finger on. This video did a good job on uncovering this type of scenario where things weren’t good at all for Mac. Seeing as he was at a point of no return.. Great breakdown in this video 🫡
I love videos like these artists drop music and it’s your job to make your own meaning behind the lyrics. Whether or not that artist says what it means it’s interesting to see how other people take it
You can't, life is pain but be happy with the gift of this pain with the few moments of forgetting the pain
Thanks for this video man it was amazing. I love Mac and swimming is one of my favorite albums of his!!
Maybe it was his way of coming to a point of making peace with it rather than being at a point of wanting for it to happen already… either way its hauntingly beautiful vulnerable and brave. Hope you’re at peace Malcolm☁️
you did this SO well 🫶🏼🙌🏼
Good video man.
Though i don't think mac was ready to die at all. My perception from the album(s) are that going out like that was the exact way he did NOT want to go. He was found in a praying postion.
Swimming to me is an album, serving as a sort of rebirth.
As this surely wasn't meant for mac to be his final album. IMO!
Mac spoke/rapped of looking for God and even said that the answers are very possibly in the Bible. It’s possible he knew what was happening in his final moments and was praying as a last effort to make it to a place where he would have peace (heaven)
@@Nic_v. He was jewish
@@Nic_v. no, he said he believes in God but he doesn't think anyone knows what that it.
Thank you for making this video... the time, effort/passion, and understanding
I've only watched a lil bit of your Kendrick video and the first few minutes of this one, but DAMN. You're the best at these music based video essays I've ever seen by far bro. Keep em coming.
this is one of my favorite videos on RUclips man, appreciate your biblical perspective as well
Such a thorough breakdown of this album. Really appreciated this video.
damn brother so glad to have found your page! you should millions of subscribers!!
These comments make me so happy :) I appreciate you!
No he shouldn’t.
@@rediknight9056 why bro
This was incredible, thank you.
“So it goes”
Hi. There were a few times that I wanted to tell you that you were analyzing the details too much, but that's a fault of my character, not yours. I'm grateful that I listened to your entire video bcuz you know a lot about him and I learn more when I stfu. I was very impressed with the fact that you're studying theology or something similar and either that includes Buddhism or someone taught you about the truths. Life is Samsara and when you also have the disease of addiction, you rarely find a release from that suffering bcuz you've already found, been using, and are a slave to another circle or problem. When your mind creates the pain/release or pleasure/ reward circuit, the habit makes it almost impossible to even see new routes. He didn't want to stop using even though it didn't bring him relief anymore but he did want something better, but he'd never known anything really without some distraction. Sorry for the long msg, but he got everything he wanted, and he never had to grow old. Sounds fckin great to me. I talk to him sometimes, but I'd bet he decided to be reincarnated and has been back for more years than ppl think. Idk, great review, bruva. W/♡,G
This may be the best video iv seen on swimming and also mac miller on this platform well done mate.
Can you stop making such insightful beautiful videos! All seriousness thank you for the work you do with this channel. The real breakdowns of the whole picture is amazing. Rest in peace Mac, thank you too.
Great video man. Miss Mac so fucking much
Prayers to Mac :)
5:41 I think Good News sounded semi-ethereal, and calm, not fearful or “dark” as a sound in comparison to the lyrics.
And as someone who knows personally, I believe it’s because Mac had found that tranquility of finally realizing you are going to let go for good.
It’s a disturbingly peacefully beautiful sensation somehow.
This is one of my favorite record definitely my favorite from mac. This vid was beautifully done man. Just found your channel started cause the tyler shooting vid caught my attention. Glad i found your channel, keep up the good work man. Also that bit at the end about life is suffering, I grew up around alot of buddisht monks and mostly what they teach is life is suffering and we must finds peace first within ourselve and help the others around us do the same and if when you cant it is what it is, as long as you try and your mindful of it.
Excellent work. Such a great deep dive. Keep going brother.
So it goes
Thank you for putting this out
Amazing video for amazing artist RIP Mac. A lot of us artists are torchured souls on the low. That beautiful relatability in the creativity . That shit is awesome. Mac Miller is a philosopher in a way.
Absolutely amazing video. I’m so happy it popped up on my RUclips algorithm. You've got yourself a new subscriber 💪🏼
i wish you would’ve mentioned macs “wings” playing in the section “ascension to heaven” on so it goes. it’s a crazy detail he put in to kind of hint at his own demise.
Just found your videos so glad I did they are so good keep it up
I love him 4ever
So it Goes is my favorite Mac song
i have "So It Goes." tatted on my arm
It’s a perfect album for those of us who’ve gone through drug addiction and cycles mania and depression.
Beautiful video man, thank you, I needed that
You gained a subscriber with this vid 👌👌👏👏👏
You should do Faces bro! nice vid🤙✨
Life is deep yo. Mac summarized it better than anyone
hope this blows up soon, will share with my friends idk how this has so low views
Great video. Thanks for putting it together.
Amazing Video!
Amazing video
love ur vids and this one was beautiful
27:33 you live
Thank you for this video
iv been listening to loyle carner recently (a british artist) hes got an album called not waving but drowning and thats more of what i think swimming is than an album to show he was hiding his drug usage. from the outside world he looked like he was swimming through life waving at the listeners but in his own world he was drowning slowly. and i think circles added to swimming more shows the drowing instead of waving that swimming was
i love loyle carner's voice i remember it from a ft on a track i can't even remember but thanks for reminding me of him i'll check out the album.
Thank you Mac, and thank you man! For this video. It really helps my day to day struggles. SML
This video is so good man
amazing video
Amazing video dope good news working Madlib Watt is over. Maclib
Subbed. Incredible video
“Promising relationship” you definitely worded that wrong! They call it a fling for a reason.
shout out to Snoop Dogg on the background vocals in "What's the Use"
you cold a this, ifw yo channel. How time consuming is it making vids like this?
Thanks friend! Altogether it probably takes about 20 hours to make a video. Writing takes the most time, and editing isn't something I necessarily enjoy lol
@@JacksonsMusicPalate I thought so, I can tell it's a lot of detail lol, shit you cold at this though looking forward to the vids you drop in da future 💯
So it goes
Mahn I hope I can make stuff like this... That makes people want to dissect it. Great video dude
Send me an email if you want to chat about how I learned to do it and what my approach is! Promise! mybeautifullongwindedanalysis@gmail.com
My goal as an artist is to reach a level where Jackson makes a video essay about me
awesome fucking video bro
Mac Miller is a genius and his death isnt in vain
Your a genius ima check out your Bible stuff
Ima be honest, I don’t agree with the main statement your trying to say, Macs own mother said that he didn’t want to die, his cause of death was ACCIDENTAL OVERDOES, he didn’t know it had fentanyl in the drug which is what killed him, he was trying to move past his demons and get better, he himself in a interview said that he prefer to be a corny white rapper than the guy who’s addicted to drugs and dies from an overdose.
That’s just my two cents but let’s keep it chill from now
I feel like im the only one who hears you
SO IT GOES
Broski can you share your Christian channel?
i think you got it backwards, it’s a upside spyral
But he didn’t make circles?
He wrote and performed the rough draft versions, so he definitely had a bit of contribution
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Yeaaa Mac didn’t learn from history 🤦♂️ you have a lot of good points but half the stuff you say is just embarrassing trying to dissect another human being.
Damn you diss Mac a lot in this video!! 28:13 . It’s funny when people act like they know so much about someone. SMH!… Decent video but this is extremely disrespectful!
this was the most obvious musical zelf deleti0n letter
Love the vids but can you stop saying it’s not fair you do it in almost every video with so much passion it’s a lil annoying
Lol dawg I had no idea I was doing this. I gotta check my scripts for other vides I got in the works