![]() “She put me back together when I was out of order,” he admits on “Perfecto.” The furthest he’ll go is acknowledging life was a lot easier with Grande than without her. Even at Swimming’s bleakest-“ Self Care/Oblivion,” a dispiriting account of his pain-numbing regime, or “Hurt Feelings,” which shines some light on his mental state during that DUI-Miller resists the suggestion that anybody in particular is to blame for him bottoming out. “Everybody want a headline, I don’t got nothin’ to say,” he rapped on “ Programs,” a loose track from May with more of a chip on its shoulder than any that made the album. ![]() ![]() Miller has long been open about his struggles with addiction, which Grande cited in her decision to end what she called a “ toxic relationship.” But those looking for any dirt-dishing or ax-grinding on Swimming will be disappointed. He’s doing his best to find the humor in a situation that isn’t really funny, as his arrest for a DUI and hit and run this May made all too clear. Miller’s flow is limber and self-deprecating he tries any pattern of singing or rapping that might lift his spirits for a few seconds. “I know I probably need to do better, fuck whoever, keep my shit together,” he ambles over an aloof beat on “Smaller Worlds.” On “What’s the Use,” he shrugs off his foibles over some buoyant roller-disco, accompanied by low-key vocal assists from Snoop Dogg and Thundercat. At its lightest, Swimming plays a little like Mac Miller’s own Forgetting Sarah Marshall, an amiable account of involuntary bachelorhood. ![]()
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