“ Blue World ” is the next track, and it is my personal least favorite, but in this song Mac indulges his rap side with simple flows that are melodic at the same time. Mac sings “I’ll just get through today, without any complications / Does it always gotta, does it always gotta, gotta be so complicated? / Well, I’m way too young to be getting old.” This song is very synth-heavy giving it an older, vintage feel. On the second track, “ Complicated ,” Mac talks about complications in life and how he wishes it could be easier. This track is my second favorite on the album because of how calming it is and the way he sings the melodies. The opening track is the title track and begins with Mac singing in a gravelly voice with a calm but very bass-heavy beat behind it with piano, guitar, and some light drums. The album title “ Circles ” comes from the final song on his album “Swimming,” “So It Goes.” In that song, Mac sings, “ My God, it go on and on / Just like a circle, I go back to where I’m from.” What I got from this line is that he never feels like he’s progressing on a path but more that he’s in a repeat of the way he feels, a feeling which he talks about in depth on“Circles.”

Jon Brion, producer and songwriter, worked on “Circles” alongside Mac and finished the album after Mac’s passing. His last album, “Circles,” a follow-up to the “ Swimming ” album released a month before his unexpected death, was recently, posthumously released on January 17, 2020. On September 7, 2018, the 26-year-old singer, rapper, producer, and songwriter Mac Miller passed away.

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