Mac Miller drops his fourth album, only a year after he dropped probably his best work yet GO:OD AM. Mac has always been known to be a creative mind and changing up his mixtapes and albums. From starting with his frat-boy college kid phase (K.I.D.S. and Blue Slide Park), to his psychedelic drugged-out phase (Macadelic, Watching Movies With The Sound Off and Faces), to his most mature album (GO:OD AM) to now his jazz music side of him on this latest album. Realizing that this album would be a love/jazz album, I can only look back to the last time he put together a jazz project with the You EP and all I can say to myself was "ugh." However, when he made that EP, he was a bit too young to really make that kind of music (singing voice wasn't there). …show more content…
The production is interesting as usual with songs like "Dang!", "Stay", "Cinderella", "We" etc. The features on this album blow away anything that was on GO:OD AM. Ty Dolla $ign, Anderson.Paak, Cee-Lo Green, Ariana Grande and Kendrick Lamar all do pretty solid jobs on where they are placed. That is also the other great thing about the features, they are placed so much better than the features on GO:OD AM. We also didn't have to hear another Ab-Soul (Lil Uzi Vert is more interesting than him just to point that out).
The issue on every project that Mac Miller does is the lyricism isn't always up to par. He does tend to have some corny lines throughout this album. And even though there isn't any horrible lines on this album, there isn't any standout lyrics either. That is where he seems to have issues as to separating the Blue Side Park side of him to now. But just about every-other category of Mac Miller has matured
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He refers to mostly sex, which is honestly what I should have expected. But even this being the content of his album, it still worked very nice, aside from a few lines that made me chuckle. "I just eat pussy other people eat food." That lyric had me laughing. Mac Miller isn't known for his wonderful singing, but the way he uses his voice in these songs just ends up working with the beats. He actually doesn't have that bad of a singing voice as I look back at some of the songs he did on previous albums ("Objects in the Mirror", "ROS", "Jump"). It seems that on every album he gets a little more personal, like on the first song "Congratulations," where he seems to be talking about his ex-girlfriend and how he went through the beginnings of trying to become a rapper. I tried to tweet at him to figure out what the first song was about, of course he didn't respond, was worth a shot
James Brown Miller, also known as “Killin’ Jim”, “Killer Miller” and “Deacon Jim”, was the son of Jack and Cynthia Miller. He was born on October, 25, 1866 in Van Buren, Arkansas, and was married to the cousin of another famous old west outlaw, John Wesley Hardin. And at the age of one, he moved with his parents to Franklin, Texas. However, just a few years after the move, both of Miller’s parents died, and he was sent to Evant to live with his grandparents. At the age of eight, Miller was again orphaned after both of his grandparents were found murdered in their home. Miller was arrested for the crime, even though he was only eight years old; in the end, he wasn’t charged.
From a mixtape standpoint, he's managed to ruin his dedication series, and make unnecessary sequels to "No Ceilings" and "Sorry for the Wait". Fans may have given a better reaction in the projects carried a different name, but he went and tarnished the brand he had made. With the second and third Carter album being phenomenal, is it crazy to think may ruin the legacy of that series as well?
After Macklemore finished giving his story about the impact of shoes on his life, he then turns towards the audience, to speak to them about how consumerism has changed us and how it frees us while it simultaneously traps us in its grasp. He explains these feelings in the lines, “I’m an individual, yeah, but I’m part of a movement. My movement told me be a consumer and I consumed it. They told me to just do it, I listened to what that swoosh said.” He’s frustrated with himself for being part of this toxic movement, but knows it’s too late. He finishes the song with a sober line of defeat: “…This dream that they sold to you, for a hundred dollars and some change, consumption is in the veins, and now I see it’s just another pair of shoes.”
"I hate this song, does this look like a big joke?/There's a 4-year-old little boy laying dead with a slit throat". — Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, shows how violent rappers songs can be. “Knew it was gonna be a long night From the moment when We locked eyes over whiskey on ice Talkin' 'bout us again”. — Luke Combs, Hurricane, talks about him getting drunk and talking with a ex-girlfriend about getting back together. Both genres also give off a message of falling in love, getting their heart broken, or even trust being broken or gained.
What does McBride bring us this time? Originals? Jazz standards? Elated post-bop classics? Well, the answer is yes to all of that, and he does it with an impressive cohort of artists and outstanding soloists, many of them retrieved from the first experience, including saxophonists Ron Blake and Steve Wilson, trumpeter Freddie Hendrix, trombonists Steve Davis and Michael Dease, as well as pianist Xavier Davis and vocalist Melissa Walker.
" I think this song is the way for Chuck to tell people to leave me alone because he's been trying to get his life together. Some of the instruments that I noticed were the guitar and the piano. The beat of the song is very energetic and it made me want to dance. The next two songs on the album are called “Carol” and “Maybelline”. Both of them are named after females.
One way he gets his topic across in the text is through his use of symbolism. This song follows the early years of a young Macklemore and his pursuit for identification through the means of consumerism. Macklemore starts the song by saying that he bought his first pair of $100 Nikes to impressing his friends and make him feel better. He explained it as being in an "air bubble" "momma, this air bubble right here, it 's gonna make me fly" meaning that he was already totally submerged in the consumerism culture at only seven years old. The air bubble symbolises how he has been sucked into consumerism and he is trapped in this
He says, “no freedom ‘til we're equal, damn right i support it” (Macklemore). What this line means is that justice and freedom is only fair when everyone is equal. He supports everyone being equal. “Whatever god you believe in we come from the same strip away the fear underneath it's all the same love”(Macklemore). He is saying everyone is equal and should have liberty and freedom. Lastly he says, “its human rights for everyone, there is no difference.” (Macklemore). He believes everyone should be treated the same no matter what.
I've been on the record multiple times saying that I believe this album was better than TPAB and should have won at least one Grammy. Unlike "4 Your Eyez Only", this was a concept album in which you can actually enjoy listening to. The way the album goes from his birth, to his awkward teenage years, to ultimately signing a record deal was done flawlessly. He didn't have a traditional "radio" record which didn't stop him from getting radio spins. "Fire Squad" was so good it made me look at two of my favorite musicians in Justin Timberlake and Eminem funny for a few weeks. This album can be played at any time and I still get excited two years later whenever it comes on. This was the album in which I can say that Cole figured it out. A full album of lyrics which at the same time is catchy and easy to listen to. You didn't need a certain level of inteligence to enjoy this album and on top of that, he went double platinum with no
He constantly refers to “blood in the water” and as we all know the phrase, means creating vulnerability in someone or a group of people. He tries to prove that in order to be different, that would to actually be yourself… not flow with everyone else’s differences. When he says “Took passion, something all of Y’all lackin. Been askin “is anyone not actin?” When I listen to this song I feel as though the lyrics are building up to a point that ego, “
It was a cold winter night in Boston. All alone a man sleeps in his cold apartment, which might as well be a fishbowl, on 56th street. This 27 year old man’s name is Andrew Miller. He is a former architect, but there is a very simple reason he’s only a former architect. He lost his job, his wife and now he’s about to lose his apartment. But there is a bright side to every dark right? He met this woman who he knew he was supposed to marry. She’s 26 years old, 5’6” and she’s beautiful, but everyone tells his that there’s something off about her. Nobody can put their finger on what it is. So we should see how this ends up right? Let’s just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
Your first thought is the love between the couple is toxic and lethal yet, he cannot resist his partner. But, really it is a reference to Cocaine. Cocaine is given a female voice. He uses personification by bringing the drug to life, where it can communicate with him and become part of his life. He knows that this “girl” meaning, Cocaine is going to be the death of him. While in use of Cocaine he gets numb. “But at least we’ll both be beautiful and stay forever young/ This I know, (yeah) this I know” (3-4). You say again, that he is singing about how the love is so very satisfying. But he is actually meaning that his desire for this young and beautiful woman makes him feel good. He feels as if he is invincible when he has her. Even though he seems to be aware of the consequences that come with feeling young and beautiful; with the use of Cocaine. “She told me, ‘Don’t worry about it.’/ She told me, ‘Don’t worry no more.’/ We both knew we can’t go without it/ She told me you’ll
This verse compare his musical career to sex for the first time. A virgin will push to the limit to "pop her cherry" and get the physical pleasure that she so despartley wants, especially when a girl is losing her virginity, she tries to make it the best experience of her life because it will impact her for the rest of her life. He is also portraying how he is "virgin" to the kind of money a famous singer will make, so hopefully he can handle it. this is his only chance and he hopes that he will be on top and stay there.
It does not seem like his lyrics are targeted at one specific audience. It sounds like he is talking to himself at some times and is retelling his experiences, venting his frustrations with the world, and the chorus is his way of accepting his situation and how the world is by saying, “It’s just me against the world” and “I’ve got nothing to lose.” In the last verse, it sounds like he is talking to young people who
The appeal he uses most often is pathos, it is found throughout the song. Macklemore uses a word that is very hurtful to homosexuals: “faggots" (Haggerty, Lewis, Lambert, 2102). He uses it to show how people inappropriately use the word, but it is a word that causes a lot of pain to some people. His word choice is effective in bringing out emotion as in the line, “plagued by pain in their heart.” The choice to use the word plague describes just how bad the pain is. When people hear the word plague, we think of a widespread disease that affects hundreds and causes worldwide scare. He is saying that this pain is what they have in their heart every day. By using pathos to appeal to the emotion of love in every chorus, “my love, she keeps me warm,” Macklemore successfully tugs at a listener’s heartstrings because most can relate to the feeling of love in some way or another. Another phrase that he uses that applies to pathos is “some would rather die than be who they are.” In today's society, the topic of suicide is extremely emotional, which is what this lyric refers to. Macklemore uses a great deal of pathos appeal to reach out to his listeners and get his argument across.