Everything ends, but where do endings even mean Hmm, hmm from spotify I'm cool cushion, and this is dissect on foreign musical analysis broken into shorter, just websites. Today we conclude our serialized examination of mac, miller swimming or the cafe the.

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sky high in the clouds exhausted on the road and treading water in the middle of the ocean, he's been up, he's been down guys and drained joyous and regretful. throughout his constant oscillations, came to find peace and each I that one cannot exist without the other harmonizing with lamentably. Balance of the universe and having now reached the end of max final works is timely. a broader look at swimming in circles and draw some overarching conclusions will stop by examining the album artworks? Look at various ways, mac connected these works and, finally, we'll get to hear directly from you, dissect listeners sharing your thoughts, feelings, about swimming in circles and so for final time. This season, let's dissect I was just like types, shootings and neighbors more like strangers. We could be as we've throughout this season. Swimming feels The combination of max entire musical career props, most potent,

less than the alps penultimate track. Two thousand nine my created a work that evoked a complete being of him, his path and his life. As such for prefer swimming appears to include or allude to the covers of each of his six studio, albums photographed by christian weber swimming cover Finds mac wearing a pink salmon colored suit city barefoot at the bottom of a tall rectangular box, a small. airplane window above him revealing white clouds, is the blue sky outside the central vertical rectangle has the same placement as the vertical blue rectangle on the cover max debut studio, album blue slight part on this cover. Vertical blue rectangle stands in for the pittsburgh parks. Iconic slide and also appears to be a waterfall, turns inspiration for the cover was an eight year olds crammed drawing backward later explained. I'm tv news quote. Basically the point is making something simple that can represent the whole idea. You look at it and it doesn't look like a park, but you know that's that blue slide park. I quote from the start of his career

it appears this idea of using simple symbolism to allow for exploration would guide the design of max covers his entire career. Turning to max next duty We observe how max position on swimming scupper, sitting down facing the camera, very similar to a seated position on the cover of two thousand thirteen's watching movies, with the sound off on this cover mac. Is this good point, surrounded by a few key objects in an overpowering use of single color. As a background, as mac described, the time comes it's all about layers but layers within oneself. I love the cover. It turned out perfectly Definitely a lot of symbolism in there, but for now I'm going to let the fans go in there and talk about what it means and quote again misquote reveal max intentions with his covers a simple aesthetic, that's rich with symbolism, encouraging exploration, interpretation moving The overwhelming white background of swimming matches, that of two thousand fifteen's good. I am which likely signified it wendy rebirth with maxie

and or screaming, face in the centre, like both blue side, and watching movies mac, once again, used a single color to enable subjective interpretation. Just as that oh good? I am means good morning, while also suggesting an overdose The immersive white of its color might simultaneously represent a cleansing rebirth at a clear mine as well as death morning in the afterlife fittingly at this point max discography can trace the interconnectivity between his studio albums have, alas, on each leads directly into the first song on the album that follows, and now each one in death and begins and rebirth so recently obsessed with thousands ending in death. I don't know why and is not even a surly and negative sad thing, but To me, mrs lice, Like you, I guess many lifetime recall First episode of the season, we observed how the final song on good- I am the festival, features you me from little dragon playing god welcoming mac into Heaven, quote I, like god, being female the only way

can get the world back on. The right track is to embrace the sacred female. does idea of a sacred female introduced at the end of good, am connect seamlessly to max next album the divine feminine on the swimming the pink suit mac, whereas matches the pink background of divine feminines cover the colors. The max strike ty also match the central window, circle of divine feminine, which show, clouds and a blue sky. Just like. Window on the swimming cover and like good. I am divine feminine begins with rebirth and end and death for the alps. Final tracks during an extended dialogue for max grandmother talking about the love shared between her and max lake

the father just gave him a wonderful life, a good marriage and a wonderful family, and I know he really had a beautiful life, and I tend to recall that after grandmother speech. The arm closes out with an extended piano part that ends on this score the. this court doesn't result the song its musically inconclusive the coup. Progression were to start over returning back to the first quarter, the progression and play a sea Major seventh court, which is the exact cord them next: album swimming begins on just like shooting. So when we guessed it back and look at max studio arms from a distance. It's pretty evident. The mac

consciously using the tools at its disposal to create works that are connected at every level, musically thematically and narratively each album seems to represent chapters that accumulate into a life story. Thus, when we look The cover of swimming, with its direct references to each studio, album albums that in death and begin a rebirth receive the entirety of mac miller, his art an emblematic of his experience, all those doors he walked through all we have is now all time is in this moment, swimming shows us all. The life cycles united, refused and one oliver lifetimes together were Well, nice to know there is all the doors shut and take a breath: newsman she'll cry, no more dumbing down a guitar goods and just supposed to run along with her connections to max previous albums each element swimming cover, hold significant symbolic weight on its own and each seems to point.

the same symbolic and simultaneous dichotomy. I will start with the largest object: the black rectangle, with an air window near the top almost like the model with a space odyssey, two thousand and one this imposing rectangle looms central amidst a white space back route. Perhaps this rectangle is a door a motif throughout max. rear, which has come up time and time again on swimming as a symbol of connection and opportunity. The gate out of his head and into the outside world green interact and game experience. A door is a point of transition and on the cover, mac is kind of sort of out the door sitting in and out at once, as he said in perfect, oh he's on the fence on the line constantly balancing between indoors and outdoors oscillating queen highs and lows. Rectangle also looks a lot like a coffin, not final door in line mac, conceptualizing, his albums as many lifetimes and also

convey mac being on the fence as its both simultaneously high in the sky implied by the airplane window, but also six feet underground. Here we can recall the self care music, yeah directed by the same photographer that shot swimming cover or mac escaped from a coffin being buried alive, a reminder Mortality, even as mac flies through the sky, as we discuss before max. Many allusions to death throughout his career feels less like premonition and more like the result of someone deeply considering our time here. Grappling with death as me to better understanding life, even seeing metaphor, deaths and rebirth as of one's continued evolution folly. This threat immortality. There's also max suit to consider paired with the fact that he's barefoot in the west and for men to be buried in suits. Most often, thought shoes on with mac being both in and out of the coffin its unclear, whether he's escaped death preparing for death, was making transition to the afterlife. This ladder,

reputation might explain the airplane window photoshopped on the coffin as mac assented to Heaven. Much like you did at the ends of both good. I am, and swimming but if we pay attention throughout swimming, we notice that max feet actually come up. A lot on perfect do his feeder and I love my feet on the ground in the socks. Otto max feet are back on the ground as he struggles to get on the ride which carpeted as symbolizing substances so that their fate might cause started even note on a danish drive a hard bargain feet also? come up on small worlds, when a full, but as cold as human beings. Doggie react to this can never glued to his shows. Guesser was, and conversations part one lesson: number staggers, dhabi learning and all these samples max fee or in the sky or on the ground. He's either high or grounded

while substances throughout swimming offered a temporary lifted, the skies giving his warrant. Need a break max dirty and calloused on the cover imply that he spent his fair share of time, taking the hard road that supposition between the tightening of mac sue and his dirty feet thus feel important as it falls in the middle ground, where he's got self somewhat together, but not all the way. Real luminal zone that max so accurately and honestly captured throughout his albums fluid reality that were never going to be all one thing never going to be fully put together. There were always and Since state of evolution, the lamb analogy on his outfit is matched by the in between this up. Nearly every element on the cover he's, both in the clouds and in the coffin underground he's dressed ninth and flashy bright suit, but his If you are so informal that he be refused service at a fast food joy, the brightness of the suit at least suggests celebratory event, but max van is lost in thought. Looking down instead of look

at the window or enjoying the height of a success. Mac is on the floor with nothing but himself. do much to gather. Never tell. Maybe I went to the surrounding. Nobody who know me will be hard to come from this firestorm, always in full the threat of max isolation, despite his famous fortune, there's something else to consider about a suit kids online notice that the color of the suit a salmon pink is the same outfit worn by J gatsby. The central character of ethics fitzgerald classic novel. The great gatsby the novel centres on the mysterious and wealthy J gatsby attempts to romantically reunite with his former lover daisy began. It gets me an extraordinary rags to riches character who throws incredibly lavish parties at his mansion, yet mostly remains reclusive during these parties. The idea the famous reclusive and misunderstood figure, has connective threads of mac and if we look back at his career, it appears to be a representation he identified and experimented with,

I mean the idea of someone throwing a party at their house that they don't. Ten is the exact scenario mac describe in two thousand for teens happy birthday from faces: ok, there's a birthday boy: s offer me fuck, they'll notice. If I never saw show my face a reason to celebrate, we haven't even more directly linking makin gas beyond the two thousand. Thirteen mix tape run on sentence its volume, one which max least under a pseudonym larry fishermen. Throughout this project, mac directly sampled, it's scenes for the nineteen. Seventy four adaptation of the great gatsby a golden- and I remember, having the familiar fiction and life beginning over again, in the great gatsby gets peace clause an important symbol and this pinks is one of the most important outfits. He wears scholars,

to agree that the pink sue as representative of gatsby love for daisy matthew, the reunite there's rain and pink clouds begin to form above the sea. Daisy tells gatsby quote I like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around unquote. The somewhat odd phrasing here is employed. daisy said she liked to put gatsby in the pink clouds and push him around signify. daisies emotional control over him. Thus gatsby, A pink soon after the scene feels like a clear embodiment of those pink clouds and they escape, and how symbolically attached to them. not be as also in the pink suit. The last time the novels narrator, seize him alive as the narrator walks away from gas. Before the final time, he writes quote his gorgeous pink rag of a suit made up right spot of color against the white steps, unquote on the cover of swimming mac, his lips, lie in a pink sue in the clouds against a white background. Not only

but we ve also observe mac using similar symbols throughout swimming the sky clouds in the sea and like the great gatsby establish a connection between pink in love with the by feminines cover which max own ping suit, nice too, and the composition of swimming artwork, given this clear use of love with pink and clouds reform. To consider max relationship with area. Grundy here recall that on that worse of swimming stunner, perhaps max most blaine song about grundy max quote, and there is no longer, let's get lost inside the clouds, using clouds as a symbolic, safe space of love and escape similar to daisy, gatsby we also noted in our episode on done that grandes association with clouds is very well known. She often uses the What emoji on social media has a tattoo of clouds and even has her own perfume named cloud also said that pale pink as one of my favorite, colors Perhaps what cement the connection most is. The fact that area grundy has been outspoken fan the great gatsby for years. She once

we did, that gatsby was one of her favorite movies and expand excitement about the release of two dozen thirteenth adaptation of gatsby, storing the or not or dicaprio we're mac past, wayne. Two thousand eight teen randy posted a quote from a great gatsby novel and social media, Also posted a screen shot of her listening to dunham surrounding mac and his pink suit with numerous cloud emerges. No before moving away from the gatsby connection. There's one last thing to observe about the story and its relation to swimming in circles. The final, of the novel is one of the more iconic and well known lines and literary history point its submission of the story central take away and then in Cyprus, observation about the human condition quote,

we beat on boats against the current worn back ceaselessly into the past. A quote but should the genius of this final line rest specifically with the word choice of born b o and he in the phrase born back see souci into the past, as borne has model definitions. One is heavy in or anchor and in this region the final line comments that our past is a heavy weight on us, no matter how hard we try to move forward in this life. What we think is full Progress is merely an illusion. What headway we might make will ultimately be met by another current that throws us backward and we find ourselves back where we started, but We could also mean given birth to end this paired with phrase, so we beat on when the little more hope and optimism to the final line. The idea being that, while the currents might be unrelenting, so too is the human spirit beating on by the heavy forces constantly pushing back, thus both hoping.

fear or present simultaneously in gas peace final line and our constant effort to make forward progress will face constant obstacles. Sometimes we move forward. Sometimes we don't. Sometimes we overcome difficulties. Sometimes were broken by them, sometimes to repeat the mistakes of our past. Sometimes we break new ground. It's me. The identical observation about the human condition that mac makes in his final work, because just as boats beat against the current back ceaselessly into the past. So too, we swim in circles finding her I'll, be right back where we started long and manage change our knowledge and join me of dry sand right at the start of the draw circus, This brings us to circles, and its cover, which is also capture by christian weber, the same photographer, who shot swimming cover the black and white.

and cover shows us to photos, mac, overlapping, each other one mac, Looking at us eyes opened resting his hand against his head and the other mac has his eyes closed. One I covered by his hand. Once again, simultaneity is the central theme here: the mackerel his head in his hands eyes closed the seemingly stuck inside his mind, a recurrent lament throughout both albums. This is the man downtrodden, beaten, disconnected taking a break and laying down for a little At the same time, the other mac is looking directly at us, offering us the window to his soul, his eyes, with our eye contact we establish connection or outside and exposed to one another In its totality the circles cover, shows mac both inside and outside both high and low. In line with max, constant oscillations to the point simultaneity throughout swimming in circles. Somehow the outcome covers a both swimming an circles turn singular stationary images into the full spectrum of existence, the overall human being

is that max ought to communicate so prominent on the cover as the tattoo. On the back of max hand, a circle filled with an german oceans horizon sky above and water below. This is mac new, like the back of his head, an image that seemingly presents swimming encircles down to the pair image of sky and see the simultaneous high and low Finally, we observed that both images of mac on the circles cover are fading. Neither is completely opaque and while their overlapping transparencies offer solid colors at some point, this is frozen moment and fade like a memory. Mac is fading from us, but he has also with

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swimming in circles individually. It's time we take a step back to observe potential connectivity between the two projects can start by We capping what we ve already covered the season episode, and so it goes. We observe the connective tissue between the first and my songs on swimming What about elements pointed to the out being both a musical and symbolic circle? Final line of the arms final verse. Just like a circle, I go back room from first clueless into these connections did max long history of connecting the ends and beginnings of his albums music the opening track come back to earth in the final track, so it goes are in the same key feature at one point. Difficult core progressions, start and then the same exact cord, which reenter it as a musical gesture that suggests a circle as the elm starts an end in the same place for maternal perspective, symbolically the extended musical outer of so it goes with described by mac himself as the essential into Heaven all the time. Oh, come back to earth implies a come down, so the rise at

ended. The album sets up the fall out its beginning. we think about how one would travel along the circumference of a circle would be exactly this movement, an endless rise and fall so. It seems pretty clear, at least to me that swimming as a self contained circle, both musically and symbolically a final line. Just like a circle. I go backward from simultaneously lays groundwork for the outcome circles, which of course begin So the song circles recalled circle, starts with the line. This is what it looks like right before you fall implying. That matches let some great height the seems pretty clearly negative that ascension at the end of swimming, creating even more connected issue between the end of swimming in the beginning of circles finally episode on circles as last track once a day will reveal how the entire album could be heard as a musical circle as he alms. unresolved cord is resolved by the court that begins the album and so, when we stepped back to observe the symbolic structure above swimming in circles realise that boy.

thousands or self contained circles that are simultaneously linked together to india and it compositions that combined to create a larger piece of art. For me, there is more than enough evidence in the music and lyrics alone to indicate the structure we can actually ff and what feels like confirmation and the official merchandise that accompanied both swimming in circles, the word of apparel items created in tandem with the albums and many the images on the garments played off symbols. Mac employed throughout the music does ashore with an image of two dies as in rolling the dice tying into the ring in gambling motif and swimming It was also a number of pieces of future waves and water for obvious reasons: but the image that really caught my attention when I first saw it was a hoodie that accompanied the release of circles. Features, a simple graphic of two overlapping circles, almost like it. and diagram circle on the left is the union's simple turned on its side. The famous aid chinese concept of two opposing yet complimentary forces. This is rubber

I visually with two black and white swirls within a circle, each containing a spot with the other the union simple, was prominently, featured on a number of swimming merchandise items which was obvious before the release of circles, thus closely associated with the swimming album and given our extensive analysis of simultaneous forces. This episode and the season hard to understand why mac would be drawn to perhaps the most recognisable symbol that exemplifies harmonizing dichotomy the circle on the right side. That's interlock with the union's symbol is completely empty. Just a single line forming the circle with empty white space within because it seems self evident that the union simple, represent swimming stance. Reason that the empty circle would represent the outer circles earlier the season. We talked extensively about the traditional symbolism of the empty circle now, so much of it relates to the themes of max album, about how there's no beginning or end to a circle, a reflection of eternity we talked about how to

de space within reflected the no mind concept of zen buddhism or one is free from thoughts. A mode and and desires completely present in the now Finally, we talked about how a circle embodies. The infinite cycle of birth, death and rebirth so appears This merchandise graphic is a visual representation of the structure of swimming in circles, swimming on the left, represented by the union and circles. the right represented. the empty circle, to individual, yet overlapping circles. Just like the two albums once a day once a day when you, once a day to give a go, upon the release of circles. Producer Jon, Brion sat down with the new york times to discuss the album and his process, bringing it to completion

it was here that he revealed that swimming in circles were a double up, but that mac was actually p. Adding a trilogy quote, tourism was to be three albums, the first swimming sort of the hybridization of going between hip hop in some form, the second which already decided, would be called circles, would be song based I believe the third one would have just been a pure hip, hop record. I think he wanted to tell people. I still love this. I still do this unquote. Beyond this quote from Brian there's, not much information about this third album, but the internet, the internet, a rumour, began to circulate that this third album was to be titled till infinity, making the trilogy swimming in circles till infinity to be clear now and close to mac, has confirmed this rumour. It simply rumour business hard to understand why there be speculation to this end, as max association with infinity and forever has been present since the start of his career. There's a crew, most dough, which often used tag most dope. That's forever. There's also the

ninety two tell infinity that followed back most of his career attacks, was recently included on a number of official merch items for swimming in circles. Perhaps most direct connection between swimming in circles in the idea of infinity came at. The official pop up installations that celebrated the release of circles and twenty twenty monsieur there can listen to the new album and experience a beautiful collection of art created by the mac miller, fan community, the title of these of installations with circles till infinity and the official event description. Redcoat, brush, strokes and snap shots frozen in time radiation, of tone and color and texture ford. in honour of an icon whose music and lyrics continue to inspire us and our collective quest for beauty, belonging and honesty in this lifetime. Understanding that, like all things, We are simultaneously temporal an infinite driven together by our collective humanity. This is circles till infinity, unquote

when I think max team captured so well, these pop up installations, the eternal quality? I think we all recognise and feel and mac miller's final works. We don't need that third album and its former title to confirm. That All we need to do is focused on what mac already gave us because think about it, swimming in circles to self contained, but connected circles, mad that, in your mind, to circles, side by side. What does I create the infinity symbol swimming in circles in his are in his life. Malcolm Mccormick gave us forever. He captured the beauty of the simultaneous complete holistic. Encapsulation of life experience this planet world and home circle, full of water with us together in the water. We are swimming in circles within circles within circles to infinity.

I just really want to do like some crazy things that I can look back when this is all said and done and be like sam, and I could be proud of what I really feel like that I've changed something go away. Four years ago, passwords yeah Finally, as for everyone, but I'm still suffer and australia. The last twelve months and me over the best and worst of my life, is at the same. The fuel swimming in circles became all consuming every day was inconsistent perseverance and not drown Why, tomorrow, I would still be in the water mac help me to find peace with this. My biggest take away. Is that way

is happiness at that sadness, flying with no chance of falling or swimming without the threat of drowning, where maybe swimming, but it's better than drowning, maybe moving encircled but it's better than on moving it all. We have a life, so we may as well live it. Thank you call thank you mac. Hello. My name is emerson and from seattle, washington, my biggest away from swimming in circles, is emotional connection with oneself, Mackey music to connect with himself and expresses deepest emotions, and I really think he wants his fancy do the same through his Zack there's so much freedom and mental really from we unabashedly identifier, true emotions, both good and bad, and what better explanation of that then sewing encircles law. We have these cyclical emotion, so identify them and keep saying I love you mac rest in peace, hi, my name a fairer and I'm from Chicago

Swimming is really one of the first albums that help me process, my father dying. He died about six months after its release from addiction. I never really got to listen to circles because of was a hard lesson for me. So thank you to dissect for finally helping me listen to that. This is one of my favorite season so far I kind of realised. That is fine. As I keep moving, I can swim forward. So, thank you to this dissect hey color from london, my biggest take away from season. I'm would probably be to try states present in a moment, now will only ever be right now to set the changing currents and ties that lies gives us and to try swim with them. Learning what we come from experience and growing, because Is it honesty also even with the parts of ourselves that we don't like, and even when we're dishonest, while it's okay to want things, unease or what's important and are often enough? Thank you mark. My name is jake.

From south carolina. The first time I heard come back to earth. It was like someone was saying what I felt for years, but had no words for you. I knew I had to listen. the rest of the album immediately. Listen to some max challenges while for the entirety of swimming in quickly became one of my favorite albums of all time. Mac had an aptitude for speaking lighters. Feelings always be grateful to him for giving us these beautiful works of art. Thanks to you, call income for helping us all connected these out more high. My name is John. I'm from grand rapids michigan at this season? I realized that love with central for our mac lived overall max way of treating others should be inspiration for all of us. Additionally, the woods episode provided a powerful analogy. we accept our place in the woods instead of trying to escape the woods as a person who has struggled with acceptance throughout their life. The spoke to me dearly. I also

I say that the outro, and so it goes truly represents the magic of music. Thank you. Mac echo this jacob from south carolina and my biggest take away from swimming in circles is that life is dynamic. It's not a harpsichord. It's a piano This outcome helps me. Remember too, not just keep pushing even one it's dark, but take the beauty that I can from it, because can't be one thing all the time max musical, Such a good example of that is better. To lean on when I've been depressed. Her heart broke in, it's been there to be the perfect song windows down summer evening, drive with my friends and will be there for whatever life brings us next. Thanks for listening love, the show hi cole, this is alicia from the dark circles is a painfully beautiful piece of art. That's allowed me to work the grief in my own personal life, it provides a sort of resolution. We don't always cat the entire openness, opel ben deliberate and genuine

it reminded me to hold onto the things I love most in this life. We miss you mac hegel, nor from san antonio taxes based from season is learning that always the next chapter in life and not to carry the way the world only shoulders. I found it, when you're in an early chapter in life, and I'm so glad I did because my personal lean on in many situations I was going through and being close to the same age as him. I felt like we were going through the same struggles of anxiety, stress and loneliness all at the same time, so it was nice I haven't by my side, while I was trying to get to the next chapter in my life. Thank you. Cole rest in peace mac. So it goes the griffin for chicago quick thanks to call for it, sat in the last two hours from a number one. Artist of all time met came on the scene. When I was at the end of my college career, my buddy showed me coolly and frozen peace in house instantly. Hooked swimming came out when I was heavily drinking,

circles was released when I was in recovery. These items have helped me keep calm. Keep me at peace helps me appreciate. Love and support. I've had during my recovery via hand, me downs, and it helps keep my doorstep free from that shady ass devil. Thank you. Mac, my name's nella, I'm from los angeles and the biggest thing that mac taught me through swimming in circles. Was that no matter how good or bad my life is at a given moment that moment will pass happiness, gives way to pain, which gives way to happiness again and there's value in both, because in the end, we're all just trying to keep our heads above the water I love you mac. I wish you were still here. I call my name is joshua and I'm from venice ITALY, a vital part in rendering my pandemic experience. Manageable, has been mac miller and, more specifically, swimming in circles. These two Some have comforted me in low moments and always make me feel like everything will be fine. The season of dissect, specifically

has made me more appreciative and willing to embrace the inevitable ups and downs of life, as well as the importance of being honest of oneself. Call. Thank you being great company my ear as a muth for life and mac. We immortal words, can express MR dell alba and I'm from arizona, and this season highlighted how life is such a balance. Just as max album, songs and themes portray our lives are so I've been flow of highs and lows. I feel like I was able to take a glimpse into the. of mac and learn about what an incredible soul. He was. I love that this season really gave me the opportunity to draw connections between mac miller as a person, his masterful music and the human experience, and I want to thank the commissioner for his thoughtful, wise and beautiful thoughts about these albums and about music and general. Every episode of this point. cast leaves me feeling inspired, and I am so in love with everything that dissect is My name is Isaac and I'm from pennsylvania. My biggest takeaway was

layers and symbols and max music is better, the addiction in describing it as drowning really hit me because at the time of his passing, I was going through a lot and I wasn't coping the way I should have, but when I heard circles it felt like I was too big brother and I was having one last conversation with him as he was telling me it's. Okay, everything will work out. Just keep your head above the water and I'll, see you on the other side and had to get better. he'll, never nobody helped me swim to. Thank you zack for doing an incredible job from breaking down his works. Mac would be proud recipes buddy. I miss you hi, go easy from Egypt here max incredibly vulnerable, pity and beautifully dressed music. Really resonated with me and made me realize that the best way to get over something is to go through it. With acceptance and honesty, we gotta jumping to swim right,

his music really does have a special place in my heart and turning into this season of this act only shed more light on how ingeniously crafted it all was an cemented that I was on the right path. So thank you coal and to all those involved for dedicating season to swimming in circles, and thank you mac. This is sean from richmond virginia in august In eighteen, I decided to give swimming a listen. Why not? I told myself, despite my misconceptions of mac, is simply a frat rapper. What I discovered was a man unafraid to bare his soul, both the good and bad, a man pushing himself to improve his craft, almost immediately mac felt like a friend I'd known for a long time, which made it all the more devastating a few weeks later, when his life was cut. Far too short, I feel blessed to have his music and I look forward to discovering nuances with each listen. Thank you mac. It ain't two thousand and nine no more, but we will have you forever and I think this is

anthony from toronto. Even before is untimely, passing listening to swimming all the way through would legitimate me cry every song displease so perfectly into each other. I really know would have imagined that the guy him a coup later frozen pizza could end up making a song may two thousand and nine. on this album through elegant. So bearing mac explained that even though existing is exhausting living can be worthwhile, just keep swimming and misery everyday, malcolm and thank you go. Sarah from new jersey swimming came out right before my senior year of high school, which was also the year. I've read slaughterhouse five and may appeal at class both that book in the album have stuck with me over the years. So hearing the possible connection between the two, and so it goes episode was a truthful sir

at the moment I actually woke up in the middle of the night thinking about the homophonic motif of so it goes circles. It felt like my past and my present came together at the same moment. After all, nothing ever really ends. It just begins again. Thank you mac and thank you, Kurt my name's darren from sydney and my biggest takeaway from swimming in circles and the dissect podcast is that this project was very well thought out. The concept of swimming in circles is nothing new to mac and it was conceived from the very start of his career. I think everything he created prior from me taped to a peas and so on ultimately led him to this beautiful, double album known as swimming in circles. I just wanted to thank cole and the whole dissect team for season nine. It's truly been an amazing listen. This is David from india, so season nine has meant so much to be different ways, but if there's one word, I could use probably do this

experience, it would be groove mac man, what a genius such introspective lyrics and every mid state morning when I used to put it on, as I was doing my morning, stretches it really used to give me that mental boost for the entire day of thank you mac for beautifying this world, with your lyrics and tangled dissect. Bought gas, for we really bringing out the genius that is MAC miller. Thank you. while arrived from new orleans. My biggest take away. This season came pretty early in the what's the use, episode, suicidal thoughts, addiction, depression been something I've struggled with my whole life. I've found at times, peace and balance are possible with the change of perspective

an ability to stay present. Appreciating the moment in the moment, like max said, it is what it is, that change of perspective has been possible because of dissect. The season has helped so much in my recovery and the way I view and create music and the way I live, I'm so grateful. Thank you hey. This is Eric from the netherlands when good news dropped as a single, I was in a pretty bad place mentally and the song specifically later, the album made me realize that not being your best self at times is okay. It helped me process a lot of bad feelings by accepting that you can be down sometimes

there can be any highs. Ties without lowest lows after from Paris have run across brothers. I consider mac below to be one of the most talented artists of his time and sank, salute they said but guest. I also discovered her tenanted. Some look at was with his fabulous base line taken in one shut, and what do you do? Doo doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo yeah, this really blow my mind. Being a bust player with great key weeks from muck. Complementarity is a base. Echo dissecting is goby from the south west suburbs of chicago. I want to thank you all for another amazing

season. That pushes me to think deeper about someone, my favorite albums and thank deeper about life in general. My biggest take away from this season relates to mindfulness to understand that no one is keeping score and to truly be present. Is it take each moment as a new beginning to do better knowing that we need to unburden ourselves with counter productive, internalized pressure and just keep swimming my name's Jes and from allay I constantly say that swimming saved. My life season. Nine is honestly the best gift I have ever gotten. Constantly just pictured mac, listening cheer analysis in my head smiling because you picked up in all these meanings, and because even if we can't know everything a hundred per cent if you would just love knowing that it made an impact on you and then on us. Thank you so much hey my name's gerard dumb from just outside of detroit, something about mac that the season of dissect made me appreciate, moore's, how accessible you

with interviews and hip hop media, even though one of his leading messages was to listen to his music to understand how he's doing and where he's at in life. His interviews always seem to give fans a genuine peek behind the curtain. To me, the most enlightening reference happened in episode, one when mac stressed the importance of listeners having their own experience with music and how leaving things unsaid can help bring new, meaning that not even he thought about that is beautiful, because it's not only relevant to several songs on swimming, but it highlights part of the ethos of dissect two I'm aluminum from chicago birthing. mean so much to you that you can verbal it words can adequately express how deep your feelings shrilly our towards them. And into this, isn't open my eyes so much about swimming in circles, something I'm gonna carry with me for a long time you to listen to ability and honesty and max museum is tangible and its meditative? He locked himself to let go sworn become one. With the tides rather than fight against them. He always believe that is humans is better mistakes could do better and as long as we push for them,

always something greater for us beyond and that's. What's most beautiful to me, I'm cara from michigan mac and his music feel like a friend swimming. Is my favorite fifty nine minutes on earth. It's the place. I go for every mood to cry to dance to laugh, that's really what swimming is to me an honest place to feel where I can take a cleansing breath feeling centered and present now is only now. Society rejects feelings that are uncomfortable and only promotes feeling light and breezy, but mac is the anomaly. Mac invites us to sit in the shit with him, wash yourself off with the pain instead of trying to ignore it, because the only way out is through the world. better place because he walked on its surface most out forever. I love you mac, thank you, or I do hope you enjoy hearing those as much as I did. Thank you to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. We actually have bunch more submissions that will be, including in a bonus episode that are released shortly after this one, so deftly check those our feet You get a chance to submit your clip. I'm going to give you your thirty seconds now, be it a feeling, a particular

seem a memorable song or moment. Reverie are whatever you're doing. Take this opportunity to think about your biggest take away for mac, Miller's swimming in circles, the The the but everyone Thank you so much for listening this season, both myself and co writer camden are genuinely grateful for each and every one of you so passionately supporting this podcast we'll talk to you in a few more It's will dissect another musical masterwork, because great art does

more than a swipe. The season of dissect was wrecked by canada, though stranger and being a huge. Thank you. Two camps for all is incredible. Work to seize. It can't wait to get started under next, one together thanks to Andrew outward for the amazing song recreations and also to bureaucratic for two great original themes, sees a thank you to air ass for audio editing to all. This

well behind the scenes of spotify, dan Hannah Robert casey, Juliet her nea teal, soon amanda and Jordan, all of whom have helped make and growth a show of the earth Course, thanks again to all of you view, in touch of the break, follow me on social media at dissect, podcast I'll talk to you next season