And I believe the third one would have been just a pure hip-hop record. The second, which he’d already decided would be called “Circles,” would be song-based. There were supposed to be three albums: the first, “Swimming,” was sort of the hybridization of going between hip-hop and song form. He had this whole aquatic theme that came out of something we’d talked about when he was working on “Swimming.” I’d noticed he mentioned water a few times in the lyrics, and then that grew into all these discussions about water and what it sounds like that became kind of a running joke. There are a lot of people who spend all their time trying to do that and aren’t as good.” It’s super sad to talk about, but I just felt like, “Oh, well, here’s a big part of your future. He started to play these things that were really insightful and individualistic but still felt influenced by his love of hip-hop and R&B and dance music. Especially after we’d spent some real, private time making music. And I don’t know if he came to me seeking approval, or just some help with some sounds or something, but I can tell you he got a lot of approval very quickly. I think he wasn’t sure if this confessional, singing, non-beat-driven stuff that he’d been working on was good or not. To his credit, he never put any claims on me. I mean, I … it wasn’t something I was itching to do. I thought that maybe I would reach out to the family or the record company. Because my feeling was, “Yeah, this stuff is as good as I remember. It could only play certain things in the library, and at some point the working tracks for a couple of the songs came up: “Good News” and “Once a Day.” It flattened me. I remember, before that call came in, being on a flight and listening to music with my phone on airplane mode. It was about three months later when I got a call from the family asking me to finish the album. I wasn’t listening through stuff or doing anything in regard to it. But the experience in the music store nudged open the door for what became an unusually intimate collaboration.Īt what point did you start thinking about the music? “He said that he wanted one because he’d seen you playing it.”Īs they got to know each other in the months that followed, during which Brion became Miller’s friend, co-conspirator and something of a mentor, he never told Miller this story. “Well, I just sold him a Fender Telecaster,” the store owner replied. Taken aback, Brion said that indeed he had, keeping the circumstances to himself.
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“Have you ever met Mac Miller?” asked the owner of a music store he frequented in Los Angeles one day. But Brion said he later got wind of a larger plan at work. The younger man, whom Brion described in a recent interview as seeming nervous and a little shy, gave no indication that he wanted anything more from the interaction than stimulating conversation. Because I'm just trying to make music for people who have similar thoughts or feelings as me.A few years ago, while visiting a friend who was trying to get sober, Jon Brion, the producer and composer known for his work with Fiona Apple, Kanye West and Paul Thomas Anderson, was introduced to a young musician who was fighting an addiction battle of his own. “You're building a world, so you have to kind of be the architect of what you're making and not think about what the current world is doing. “As long as I'm being honest first and foremost with myself, that allows me to be honest in the music,” Miller told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe around the release of his fifth and final album, Swimming. Even when the subject matter grew dark-Miller dealt openly with substance abuse before his death in September 2018 at age 26-he was candid and personable about channeling his struggles into relatable art. Searching, jazzy, even philosophical, his music-often self-produced under the name Larry Fisherman-came to split the difference between popular appeal and creative ambition, uniting collaborators at both ends of the spectrum, from Snoop Dogg to Flying Lotus. He grew quickly: Few artists cover as much ground between albums as Miller did from Blue Slide Park to 2016’s The Divine Feminine, which saw him develop into a vocalist capable of duetting with Ariana Grande. A Pittsburgh native, Miller (born Malcolm McCormick in 1992) entered the mainstream with 2011’s playful, party-ready Blue Slide Park, only the second independently distributed debut to top the Billboard 200. Though he broke through as a brash teenager, Mac Miller evolved into one of the more thoughtful and surprising rappers of the 2010s.
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