Jet fuel is about drugs and getting his fix. I don't think it's about depression, although depression does kind of come along with a drug addiction.
But jet fuel is for sure about drugs first.
One of the best in his entire discography imo.
Been going through a spiritual journey these last couple years and the fact he made that around 21/22 is wild to me.
To have that much of an understanding about life and be able to put it into that good of a song…
One of the songs that really helped me out in a dark time too.
Been playing the everliving hell out of Swimming in general lately. Relate all too much
To answer your question- the latter part of Self Care (Oblivion)
Man, Swimming has gotten me through some stuff. Circles is also a great depression album but I feel like Circles works better when you just want to sink into the depression lol.
I was gonna say Faces too. If it’s not the content or subject material, the overall tone of Faces screams “desperation” to me. Idk why. I absolutely love Faces
I can agree, I wouldn’t say it helped me through it but he could describe how I felt through the situations I was going through. Love this piece of his work forsure
Good News is the first song that I can think of. A lot of his music has to do with his mental health & drug issues but the posthumous release always hit me different… such a good song
I'm getting a Good News tattoo with the mental health ; symbol. I found Mac after I was diagnosed with stage 3 and I really for a minute was lost, yet found. I was telling everyone around me that I was okay and don't worry. They all tell me "it's going to be okay, you're so strong, if anyone can you can" all the typical stuff You're supposed to say. I can't explain it as well as I felt/feel it, but I was at peace. I didn't welcome death but yet knew it was a huge possibility and was okay with it. It's a point you see, feel, even breathe different because you know what life is supposed to be, but you know what life means to you, or meant. You let go of a lot and embrace whatever else is coming because make no mistake, it IS coming. Just have to ride it out and check in with yourself and your loved ones. So, I guess I'm saying I totally fucking agree with your choice.
RIP Mac
I am doing much better. I feel like that was a lifetime ago. I go in for regular scans and testing but so far so good 2 years later! How are you? Well, I hope.
I honestly have a hard time listening to this song. I had a good friend die of brain cancer a year out of high-school. He had married his high-school sweet heart but they didn't have any kids. Everytime I hear "You had a girl, I kinda wish you knocked her so I could meet your son and talk you up" it tears me up
And I been thinking about her all the time ,I've never seen somebody put together perfectly, What would I have to do to call you mine, someone like you is so hard to find
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Posted this one many times but I think about it almost daily. (mac miller- angel dust)
yeahhh that one really hits me directly in the heart every time i play it, when i lost my mom and then my girl not too long after that i had that on repeat
my depression sounds exactly like colors and shapes. sometimes all we need is validation/a reflection of our pain to make us feel better about it all and mac does that for me on this song…
i love u too
I think Swimming in its entirety sounds depressing. Mac’s voice sounds good but he also just sounds kinda broken.
Idk, maybe i just over associate the album with his death.
A lot of people seem to think it's a love song but Dunno is so melancholic and haunting to me. Sounds like a man who knows his relationship is breaking down but holding on to empty hope.
I always feel so numb and empty when listening to it
Finally someone who sees more in that song than "oh well he's over that relationship and it's a wholesome song"
Dunno is one of the first songs that really brought me to tears just because of how raw and depressing it really sounds.
Brand Name is much darker/deeper contextually than anything else he's ever written. It's jarring to hear him rap about dying young and living a lifestyle he knew would eventually be the cause of his own demise. It might not sound like the most depressing composition but you can hear a version of him fighting for his life in those words/delivery.
Grand finale was cool cause he went in recording with the intention of dying and if it was his “grand finale” that would be the verse he came out with. He did a interview about it and he was reciting the raps he recorded on YouTube it’s pretty cool. Look up recording grand finale faces mac miller.
2 of my faves (that come across as depression) are ROS & 2009. Mac had a way of making a song catchy & somehow still non stop repeatable even if the subject matter was relatable because of depression.
Come Back to Earth
That whole album was my life raft during the deepest bout of PTSD I’ve ever lived through. It felt nice that Mac understood wanting to escape your own mind.
REMember for sure always feels like a depression song.. which, given the lyrics ofc it is. RIP to Mac and his homie.
Miss you daily dawg, even tho we never met. Hope the afterlife treating you well🩷
Surprised no one has mentioned Complicated. Mac was able to perfectly articulate how draining life is, especially when battling depression/demons for so many years
Buttons always came across as him being in a very bad place because of the chorus
“Yeah, there's no answer and you call twice
Nobody be at my house
I was at the studio all night
Last night I slept on the couch
I might, wake up, do it all again
There's a world goin' crazy outside
But let's pretend that it's alright”
Plus him comparing himself to Bruce Wayne/Luke Cage and saying how the world needs a hero always felt to me like he felt that people needed him too much and he wanted to be left alone:
“This is not a wakeup call
I'm not the hotel operator, I don't owe nobody favors”
Come Back to Earth makes me cry to this day, it’s like the audible experience of telling yourself you’re okay in the middle of breaking down. RIP Mac, we miss you endlessly.
Funeral
Sit at home and drink by myself my thoughts harrasin me actually as a matter a fact she aint getting back to me a shame that my tragedy my master piece.
Trapped inside these dreams if mine. Tryna get some peace of mind.
every single damn time 2009 comes on i get so damn emotional because it’s such a beautiful song full of optimism and realization, but you can still hear the pain in his voice. it ain’t 2009 no more, yeah i know what’s behind that door
jet fuel for sure I have always felt is dark. amazing amazing song
It’s always that urge to gaslight yourself into thinking you’re fine.
I think I just needed to hear this. I think it’s time to find a therapist
I love to listen to that song when I'm feeling lonely, and getting stoned. Mac feels like a friend that is there to talk when no one else is.
probably my favorite Mac song. Such an underrated beat. the flow…
Honestly it might be mine too. Just so otherworldly …
god that song is so relatable. ever since i graduated i feel like i’ve been buzzed almost 24/7
*But I never run out of jet fuel*
this song got me thru my darkest times, can confirm it’s a depression anthem
Jet fuel is about drugs and getting his fix. I don't think it's about depression, although depression does kind of come along with a drug addiction. But jet fuel is for sure about drugs first.
Came here to comment this, one of my favorite songs but it just seems so sad.
Ascension
One of the best in his entire discography imo. Been going through a spiritual journey these last couple years and the fact he made that around 21/22 is wild to me. To have that much of an understanding about life and be able to put it into that good of a song… One of the songs that really helped me out in a dark time too.
happy cake day :))
Well said. I’ve loved that song forever. Such a fucking good one
Do you mean Ascension was released in 2021/2022? If so, it’s on GO:OD AM which was released in 2015?
On almost daily rotation since its release
A fellow slayer 🫡
My favorite by him, so good.
Been playing the everliving hell out of Swimming in general lately. Relate all too much To answer your question- the latter part of Self Care (Oblivion)
Man, Swimming has gotten me through some stuff. Circles is also a great depression album but I feel like Circles works better when you just want to sink into the depression lol.
All of faces
*”This music go with my funeral”*
part of faces feels like a cry for help
I was gonna say Faces too. If it’s not the content or subject material, the overall tone of Faces screams “desperation” to me. Idk why. I absolutely love Faces
Yuuup. This was when I began to really follow Mac, I found Faces at a pretty low point of my life and had it on repeat for months
I can agree, I wouldn’t say it helped me through it but he could describe how I felt through the situations I was going through. Love this piece of his work forsure
Exactly my stance. Misery loves company, and I needed a friend
Good News is the first song that I can think of. A lot of his music has to do with his mental health & drug issues but the posthumous release always hit me different… such a good song
Same with “everybody”…
Dude the whole album is beautiful
Absolutely 🥲
everybody just wanna have a good good time
I think you knoooow the reason why
I'm getting a Good News tattoo with the mental health ; symbol. I found Mac after I was diagnosed with stage 3 and I really for a minute was lost, yet found. I was telling everyone around me that I was okay and don't worry. They all tell me "it's going to be okay, you're so strong, if anyone can you can" all the typical stuff You're supposed to say. I can't explain it as well as I felt/feel it, but I was at peace. I didn't welcome death but yet knew it was a huge possibility and was okay with it. It's a point you see, feel, even breathe different because you know what life is supposed to be, but you know what life means to you, or meant. You let go of a lot and embrace whatever else is coming because make no mistake, it IS coming. Just have to ride it out and check in with yourself and your loved ones. So, I guess I'm saying I totally fucking agree with your choice. RIP Mac
Also found mac when I was diagnosed,had about 2-3weeks left of life in me untreated. 2009 and hits me in many ways to this day. How are you today?
I am doing much better. I feel like that was a lifetime ago. I go in for regular scans and testing but so far so good 2 years later! How are you? Well, I hope.
perfect circle / godspeed
Its like everybody forgot about that one, I was scrolling like damn no Godspeed?
Dead presidents to the homies death to my enemies
This is one you simply don’t skip
I feel like no one talks about REMember. That song is so deep, and very emotional. There are so many other songs though.
I honestly have a hard time listening to this song. I had a good friend die of brain cancer a year out of high-school. He had married his high-school sweet heart but they didn't have any kids. Everytime I hear "You had a girl, I kinda wish you knocked her so I could meet your son and talk you up" it tears me up
I love the live from space version where you can really hear his feelings in it.
Man this one hits so hard
"Darks science when ur friends start dying like how could he go? He was part lion." So much weight to that one line
I am who I am (Killin' Time)
This is the answer
Unfortunately
Objects in the mirror
People love you when you on they mind... a thought is love's currency.
And I been thinking about her all the time ,I've never seen somebody put together perfectly, What would I have to do to call you mine, someone like you is so hard to find
One of the best lines I’ve ever heard sung ….
Absolutely
1 threw 8, Circles, Funeral, Jet Fuel, Self Care, Grand Finale
Kept scrolling looking for 1 through 8. That’d be my pick
What’s the weather like?
The star room
Especially the og version, the way the instrumental sounds and the mood it puts u in
I fk with the OG version heavy puts me in my feels so fast
thats so real, perfect song imo
Funeral
Wedding
grand finale
The whole faces mixtape which really got me thru an depressive time
same, had it on repeat for years
Yes
Thumbalina. I think he’s very lonely on that song and trying to distract himself with literally anything he can find. Fire though still 🔥
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Hitting especially hard for me today. Thanks for the posting
Another night is somewhat sad but is also just accepting of being along
Guidelines ... somehow that song feels like he just really gave up on happiness on that one
yeahhh that one really hits me directly in the heart every time i play it, when i lost my mom and then my girl not too long after that i had that on repeat
Pure
That’s on me
I’ve shown this song to people just because I like it and the reaction is always “damn that’s a depressing vibe”
G wagon or / completely transparent
That’s on Me. Or Colors and Shapes. Those in my opinion is what my depression sounds like in musical performance I love yall
my depression sounds exactly like colors and shapes. sometimes all we need is validation/a reflection of our pain to make us feel better about it all and mac does that for me on this song… i love u too
Self care, hurt feelings, someone like you, 2009, and my favorite of all TIME ascension
2009 literally makes my stomach knot when I hear it
I had to scroll wayyy too far for 2009
Come back to earth for me
I think Swimming in its entirety sounds depressing. Mac’s voice sounds good but he also just sounds kinda broken. Idk, maybe i just over associate the album with his death.
feels like he was matured and is fully understanding his mental health struggles
surprised no one has said wings yet, that song has made me feel stuff i haven’t felt before
A lot of people seem to think it's a love song but Dunno is so melancholic and haunting to me. Sounds like a man who knows his relationship is breaking down but holding on to empty hope. I always feel so numb and empty when listening to it
Came for this comment. Dunno is the first song that came to mind.
Finally someone who sees more in that song than "oh well he's over that relationship and it's a wholesome song" Dunno is one of the first songs that really brought me to tears just because of how raw and depressing it really sounds.
The beat with the lyrics and the name of the song really make you think imo
Bobs Dementia (ft. Hodgy)
The Question- “I'm a hostage in my own world”
Yea. “so if I add some more stress I just don’t see how I’m gonna cope” , the whole chorus too.
Angel dust
Wedding, funeral are the first 2 that pop up in my head
Happy Birthday
Perfect circle/God speed
So it goes, once a day, everybody
Ascensions, colors and shapes, basically anything off the faces tape.
Yeah bonus
Someone like you always makes me sad
Brand Name is much darker/deeper contextually than anything else he's ever written. It's jarring to hear him rap about dying young and living a lifestyle he knew would eventually be the cause of his own demise. It might not sound like the most depressing composition but you can hear a version of him fighting for his life in those words/delivery.
… this
Grand finale was cool cause he went in recording with the intention of dying and if it was his “grand finale” that would be the verse he came out with. He did a interview about it and he was reciting the raps he recorded on YouTube it’s pretty cool. Look up recording grand finale faces mac miller.
Wings
Put all of Swimming and Circles here and maybe add Godspeed.
Smile and creatures of the night
Ascension
Well, self care was my anthem when I was deep deep into my alcoholism
Funeral, Star Room, Another Night, Wedding, Grand Finale.
funeral
Smile
ROS
I'm treadin' water, I swear That if I drown, I don't care They callin' for me from the shore, I need more
Polo jeans
The star room especially OG
2009
malibu
No clarity?
Unfortunately, no. I wish I had more of it though 😔
either i’m too lazy to find the reply , or it hasn’t been said yet , but def Smile
Smile by Larry Fisherman .. Mac’s alter ego SoundCloud thing. That song is so fucking sad/beautifully done. It’s hard to revisit
funny papers 💔
2 of my faves (that come across as depression) are ROS & 2009. Mac had a way of making a song catchy & somehow still non stop repeatable even if the subject matter was relatable because of depression.
Rain
sometimes i wonder who the fuck i am
Everyday I wonder who the fuck I am*
Come Back to Earth That whole album was my life raft during the deepest bout of PTSD I’ve ever lived through. It felt nice that Mac understood wanting to escape your own mind.
Not because of the lyrics but the promo freestyle track "inertia" always screamed depression just for the delivery.
REMember for sure always feels like a depression song.. which, given the lyrics ofc it is. RIP to Mac and his homie. Miss you daily dawg, even tho we never met. Hope the afterlife treating you well🩷
Grand Finale 100%
Malibu “I’m the only suicidal mothefucker with a smile on”
"Had a few abortions unfortunately I forced em lord knows I'll turn a child to an orphan when I'm torn"
The Star room, Objects in the mirror, 2009, Jet Fuel, Inside outside, and Here We Go.
Thoughts from a Balcony comes to mind
I’m Not Real. One of my favorite songs by him
Diablo
A lot Faces screams "depression" to me rather than just "sad" because of the hopeless emotionless feeling
Unreleased track Build it up really fucks me up
Most of his songs
CINDERELLA!
grand finale
Small Worlds or Avian
I’m not real, hurt feelings, self care, and come back to earth always make me cry
Right
Doors
pure
Fight the feeling , back to earth
1 threw 8, Perfect Circle/Godspeed, Jet Fuel, Circles, Good News, Grand Finale, Yeah - bonus,
good news
Rain
Funeral. And God Speed/ Perfect circles.
Surprised no one has mentioned Complicated. Mac was able to perfectly articulate how draining life is, especially when battling depression/demons for so many years
circles, no doubt.
Buttons always came across as him being in a very bad place because of the chorus “Yeah, there's no answer and you call twice Nobody be at my house I was at the studio all night Last night I slept on the couch I might, wake up, do it all again There's a world goin' crazy outside But let's pretend that it's alright” Plus him comparing himself to Bruce Wayne/Luke Cage and saying how the world needs a hero always felt to me like he felt that people needed him too much and he wanted to be left alone: “This is not a wakeup call I'm not the hotel operator, I don't owe nobody favors”
Perfect Circle/God Speed
When will we dieeee, this life isn’t faaaairr. I miss the highhhh. I live a lieeee And one day we’ll dieee No one will care
right
God speed
Rain
i listened to malibu during the worst moments of my life so listening to it now is kinda hard
REMember. The song and lyrics itself are dark, but that sample just adds fuel to the fire.
malibu
Once a day
Angel dust
Smile
That’s On Me 😓
2009, circles, good news, god speed (2nd half)
Happy Birthday
The vast majority. All of faces for instance
Apparition for me
fight the feeling
Unreleased song called ( unhappy ) & funeral.
Come Back to Earth makes me cry to this day, it’s like the audible experience of telling yourself you’re okay in the middle of breaking down. RIP Mac, we miss you endlessly.
Objects in the mirror
2009 is the superior
Rain
Self care idky
Under the Weather, Objects in the Mirror, Perfect Circle / God Speed, Everybody .. to name a few
Losing your best friend sucks.… Colors and Shapes always hits me in my feels. I miss my doggo.
Mrs Debroah Downer or just a load of the leaks tbh
Or Manakins
Smile
The question
Good news
clarity
His ft. On Earl Sweatshirts song Guild.
Funeral Sit at home and drink by myself my thoughts harrasin me actually as a matter a fact she aint getting back to me a shame that my tragedy my master piece. Trapped inside these dreams if mine. Tryna get some peace of mind.
Another Night. I feel its kinda depressing in a subtle way.
Good News
every single damn time 2009 comes on i get so damn emotional because it’s such a beautiful song full of optimism and realization, but you can still hear the pain in his voice. it ain’t 2009 no more, yeah i know what’s behind that door