![]() But I couldn’t figure out why the death of someone whose music I barely knew and who I knew almost nothing about elicited the feelings it did. I wasn’t alone: one could spend days and days scrolling through tweets and YouTube comments from people who were hit hard by his death, from musicians he had known or worked with to random fans. That’s why I was a bit confused when I had a visceral reaction when I heard Mac Miller had died, especially since I barely knew anything about him or his music. But I can’t think of any other in recent memory that really got to me. Anthony Bourdain’s suicide in 2018 felt like a kick to the gut. With a few exceptions, celebrity deaths almost never affect me. My first introduction was Miller’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert, and shortly thereafter, Swimming, which until the posthumous release of Circles, was to be his last album. ![]() And because I mostly live under a rock, I didn’t know he was the dude Ariana Grande was dating before she briefly got engaged to Pete Davidson, who was on Saturday Night Live at the time. Late as in three days before he died of an accidental overdose on September 7, 2018. Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape.Ĭhris Robinson is looking for somebody to tell him that somewhere, in some vault or closet or attic, there’s hours and hours of recordings of Paul Desmond and Marian McPartland playing together just waiting to be heard.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |