Like Home

Combined with "Gone Home", this is a very interesting piece of art about houses and our relationship with spaces that we claim for our own. Emotionally powerful.

Finally Get It

Trying to get my thoughts together about why I think this album is so genius. 

It's different. Very different. In the very beginning of the cd he says "the isn't for the radio. But they play it anyway, that's just the way it goes".  He took that to heart. There aren't many radio bangers on this cd. Started from the bottom is a really sparse and chill beat to be the lead song. Most of the songs on the cd are very grating upon first listen. "Worst behavior", "305 to my city" and "connect" were awful at first. After several listens, they have so much character that they are among my favorites. 

Lots of trap influence on this cd. The symbols on "started from the bottom" have this really cool crash pattern where they don't quite resolve during the chorus and it ends up sounding string out. 

This cd seems to have drug influences on it. On one song he even says "im peaking im peaking". But the whole thing sounds like its for ears that have a couple to drink  and took a couple blunts to the done. It's that scattered and tweaks feeling that shows itself a lot on the cd, including all the high hat symbol hits, and the fake ones. 

He is more drake than other CDs. He's croony and audacious at the same. But this is the juxtaposition we have in life. Good isn't good unless there's bad to compare it to. "Worst behavior" is sandwiched by the most tender songs on the cd, maybe that he's ever done. 

"The boy" is drake, but it may be more accurately how he wishes he could be. Nothing was the same is referring to how he can't be that person anymore. That there's stuff that's happened that he can't change. "Nothing was the same" the title has several different meanings in this light. Knowing drake, it's simultaneously good and bad. It's great he's famous. He loves it. But it comes a price. This album is his mostly positive reflections on fame but how he can't stop what he's set in motion. 

Maybe the nothing that is the same is his music. Maybe he's telling us he's done being the same. And I commend that. This cd is different than his others and this is an indication it'll keep changing. 

He had the good idea to make this cd another deep cut. Part of my favorite aspect of take care was the length. It allowed us to meet drake and reall yet to know him, even of it took a while. That's because he's not simple. 

The album art is part of why has stick with me about the cd. It appears as of its a reference to biggie's"ready to die" cd. A baby on the cd has a lot of implications because of other CDs that have had babies on it: biggie, illmatic and more recently, Kendrick. The look skyward, looking at what's coming, not paying attention to everyone watching him, only his goals(what he's looking up to). He was face on in his first cd, slightly askewed on take care and now he's a portrait. He's had a transformation. He's not the same. But we already knew that. 

Really Good

Didn't expect to like it that much.Thought I was over them, but not. God damn can Jeremy McKinnon write a pop punk song.

I think it helps that it felt like a real genuine album. Not Produced, but right from the heart. I think ADTR has always been about that, but it really shines through on this album.

Why I Love Mac Miller

All in 2013:

Didn't think I'd like this that much

Really mature, introspective, and thoughtful. The music is spacey, sparse and airy, but still very refined. It's got a hazy, drug induced mental fog feeling to it, but one that has lead to inspiration, clarity and an epiphany.

My favorite line is still "and my experience with touching my epiphany in color form"

Favorite songs: Star Room, I'm Not Real, Bird Call, I Am Who Am, Objects in the Mirror, Red Dot Music, Watching Movies, Suplexes Inside of Complexes and Duplexes, Aquarium, Youforia, Goozebumpz and O.K.

If I had to chose one song to die to, "Youforia" ranks up there as a contender.

Album of the Year for 2012

It took a while (mostly cause I'm lazy lol) but I've finally picked a winner for the album of the year award, from this list of candidates.

Kendrick Lamar's "Good Kid. Maad City".

I don't think I have to talk to much about why this CD is so good. I have written my thoughts down here, which I will continue to update as I think of more stuff.

Runner Up

idk. There are a lot of CDs I like, but I think this technically the "best" one that I know a lot of. Channel Orange was good, but it didn't stick with me that much. Granted, I don't listen to this much anymore, and I listen to Cruel Summer still a lot, I think this is a better CD. Simliar thing with the Parallax. I'm sure its better than this one, but I know this CD almost back to front because its so good.

The Greatest Generation

The sadness of the greatest generation:

They were the greatest. They fought Hitler. They defeated the Axis.
They lead us against the Soviets
and now they are dead and old like everyone else

Man Wonder Years just fucking kill it. Every CD is a classic