yo what's going on guys welcome back to the channel my name is saeed i'm doing another
song reaction today this is generally where i break down the music and lyrics for a song and
offer up my interpretations for what i'm hearing but before we get into the actual song reaction
i wanted to highlight my favorite comment that was left in the last video i made which was a
taylor swift reaction to the song style and it was left by someone called robert thompson who
sort of gave an explanation for the no headlights lyric that i was speaking about in the video he
says that it was refers to harry styles picking her up at night and trying to avoid photographers
knowing what was going on because uh they're not trying to draw attention to their relationship
he also spoke about the idea of the song being a great driving track because it was partly inspired
by drives that they would take together down the pch in the california coast great comment left by
robert great info in there okay so now back to the actual song reaction today i am doing a reaction
to mac miller's npr tiny desk concert now a little back story on sort of my um if you want a quality
relationship with max music i'm a big hip-hop head but for whatever reason mcmillan's music has kind
of missed me now i've caught some of his tracks uh i really liked that song he did with anderson pack
and he's got a great track with kendrick lamar which i may do a reaction to but over the years
for whatever reason i've not checked out his music but i am aware of the idea of him going through
a sort of evolution as an artist where his uh his music has certainly changed up and he's he's kind
of blossomed as an artist towards the end of his career before he uh sadly passed away but i have
a friend who's a big hip-hop head who keeps on sort of telling me to check out mac's music
knowing what i like in music and sort of my love of lyricism and my love of uh emotion in the track
um he keeps on telling me man you've got to check out mac's music he's going to suit your style and
your taste so much so here i am i'm doing a reaction to his tiny desk performance which is
huge he has huge numbers on youtube so he must have done something right and i'm doing the first
track on that and uh so let's get into the song okay here we go this one's called small worlds
okay i know super early on but doesn't pharrell have that 4b intro that he does i wonder if
this track was um produced by pharrell no it's not carter lang and tay beast okay ferro hat does have
that bang bang bang bang he's got that sort of um that's his sort of signature that he does anyway
initial thoughts on the track um the product production wise
um really love the production i feel like it's a super laid back vibe and what i feel like is
about to happen it's like the perfect template for a stream of consciousness consciousness
type of um type of track that uh max about to deliver um love those uh guitars and that
lazy bass line that's going on um really nice production on that and i i like this
this um uh line that he's got going on there the world is so small until it hey yeah i think
a lot of rappers go through this uh sort of uh metamorphosis when you're making music at first
and you're thinking about your block and your friends and your little bubble without you living
at first and what happens is your music sort of blows up and it takes you across the world and so
i feel like he's really speaking from experience there the world is so small until it ain't
i think i know it uh but i don't
why you always at the mall when you're broke
he said on my trip i never fall god knows i came close wow um knowing sort of mac's uh
history with the sort of drug abuse and addiction i feel like this is a really really powerful line
man god knows i came close don't try this at home he's like let me go through it you don't
you don't have to um you don't have to break these barriers down i'll be the one that does it
[ __ ] whoever keep my [ __ ] together you never told me being rich was so lonely
nobody know me oh well hard to complain from this five-star hotel i'm always in the rush i've been
thinking how many flows did he just deliver in that little pocket there this this section
was completely different to this new one and the way he's kind of finding these little pockets in
between this laid-back beat mark with time slowly became an expert rapper i think the stuff that he
threw out at first was um you know kool-aid and um frozen pizza that kind of vibe really good songs
but i think people judged him super early on those uh on those few tracks whereas
he became an awesome rapper and on top of that a great live performer like he's delivering
these lines with emotion and one of the sort of issues i have with rappers is the idea that
they kind of just wrap the bars they don't ever they feel like the lyrics take care of all the
emotion whereas mac is putting the emphasis into these words which is really making it hit home
too much but keep it on the hush no one need to know just us that's really all it takes
you don't need nothing but today today today
that's the sort of idea that um they kind of repeat in aaa does don't they um knowing
max has probably gone through a uh sort of process of trying to fight addictions
perhaps he's been a member of aaa i'm not too sure i'm talking about alcoholics anonymous of course
we don't need nothing but today that's the concept that they live by you know take each moment for
what it is don't try and think about the next day we're gonna we're gonna try our best today and and
to think too far ahead we'll start to make you sort of worry and go into those same routines
again really love this line be grateful for today man great message she hate it when i
come and it's like and it's late and it's late i don't want to keep you waiting i hope i never keep
the bass line really makes this song man just fivey little licks on the
i guitar a bad attitude playing till i'm out of moves no need for shame i get more peace at slow
speeds no need for shame i get more peace at slow speeds wow the idea of like giving
up the fast life which seems um so interesting at first when you're from the outside you know
money girls fame coming at you but he's like no need for shame i don't i don't i don't need to
sort of um hate myself for it i get more peace at slow speeds and i'm happy with that love that
eat the game young control freak it's cold in my veins i'm below freezing snow season
they know that i so need my space don't wanna grow old so i smoke just in case
she say that i glow below the waist that's just soapy love it look at the
sort of themes it keeps up right the idea of uh temperature low temperature being cold right
then he switches it switches it up to uh golf references here love it stroke is just so pgs
a little bit of space and time shapes and lines of the world
may be
that's really all it takes we don't need nothing but today today wow love that great message
man great message this is like the the words of someone who's been through something and is trying
to sort of move on in a positive way in their life you know there's something above you keep
reaching up i love that i love that especially if you're coming from a dark place in your life man
um it's important to always try and keep this perspective it's not always possible but
this is sort of the way to take it man love it
he speaks about building up a wall it's interesting man some
of the best artists in the world who can spill out their feelings
leave all of that for the music you know for their art whatever it may be you know but uh in person
he may be someone who's um very closed off in a way um certainly relatable right there man
okay here we go we're switching up for the outro
he's about to spit some [ __ ] now
nine times out of ten i get it wrong that's why i wrote this song tell myself to hold on
i can feel my fingers slipping whoa okay just a couple lines in the lyrics uh this is a really
cool concept man i like the idea that most of this track has been super laid back and sort
of a stream of consciousness where the vibes have been all positive all of a sudden the
song gets darker and so does the lyrics there seems to be like uh you know if the others part
of the song was him being strong this is like the weakness coming out now [ __ ] instant i be gone
do you want it all if it's all mediocre staring at the wall in the wall full of posters
looking in my dreams who i want to be i guess you gotta see it to believe true i've been a fool but
it's cool that's what human beings do keep your eyes to the sky and never glow to your shoulder
i've been a fool but it's cool that's what human beings do we
all make mistakes but this is the line right here keep your eyes to the sky
and never glue to your shoes [ __ ] man i love that that's beautiful um
and have some belief in yourself man um keep your chin up keep going i love that i love that line
i guess there was a time when my mind was concerned with the sun coming out now
clouds start to move don't tell me nothing but the truth i'm tired i don't got a spare second
i love the way he delivered that he said we don't lose win or lose it kind of sounded like
winter blues winter blues if the if the rest of the track was like a summery vibe you know like
all good vibes the way he says it if you check that out again he's like winter blues winter blues
or win or lose when i lose don't tell me nothing but the truth i'm tired i don't got a spare second
winner blows winter clothes i don't keep count nobody checking
wow great song man great song really introspective loved it and uh i always
like a song which takes the chance to kind of uh commit to a theme and if this theme is about
the idea of uh sort of relapses almost you know because um so much of this song is positive and
him being in a great mindset um headspace and it was great it was great while it lasted but
i love the the chance it took to then switch up the song and go more introspective and go darker
this was a brilliant brilliant uh last outro verse and the idea of not sticking to that
same chorus verse bridge chorus end of the song no we're going to give the outro as just 16 bars
you know like we're going to go for it really love it man taking chances there now look my
friend recommended me that i listened to listen to macmillan said it's going to suit your style
man i i mean he's right man he's right great introspective writing man great introspective
writing some brilliant bars sprinkled in there and i think my favorite might have been keep your eyes
to the sky and never glue it to your shoes love that message um we'll keep this going i will do
a reaction to the next track hopefully very soon until then look so far big thumbs up from me
yo what's good guys so this is the end of the video i just wanted to say to take a chance to
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a big help for me and for any mac miller fans who watch this thing give me a sort of rundown on what
you think i should hear because a track like this i love introspective great beat great production
um just sort of guide me through this let me know what i should be looking out for next