Sometimes what you love kills you (music)
Apr. 22nd, 2018 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexI lost a whole bunch of music tabs; still, I figured I'd retrieve some stuff and find some new stuff. This is not that post. On Friday I saw that Avicii had died, found dead in Oman. I knew that he'd been out of the limelight more, but not why. Turns out maybe he should've stayed away.
Writeup is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/04/20/avicii-struggling-with-health-and-fame-tried-to-walk-away-from-it-all-two-years-before-he-died/
A story of how, despite being wildly famous and popular and making millions, Avicii still wanted to walk away from the pressure and performance that, apparently, drove him to drink and cost him his gall bladder, appendix, and maybe more. Certainly he seems to have felt that it cost him the real person behind the superstar persona. As I remarked to DJ Purple last night I feel like we're witnessing the 21st-century version of the stress, burnout, and resort to self-administered chemicals that cost us some of the biggest names in rock & roll.
If you don't recognize his tracks by name, have a listen. You've heard these, I expect, mixed and used many places:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovdm2yX4MA - Levels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrbM1l_BoI - Wake Me Up (1.5 billion views on that one alone)
And the one that will likely always be my personal favorite:
https://www.vevo.com/watch/faithless/insomnia-2-0-avicii-remix-(official)/GB1101500984
RIP Avicii. I hope wherever you are you've found the peace you didn't have in this life.
Writeup is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/04/20/avicii-struggling-with-health-and-fame-tried-to-walk-away-from-it-all-two-years-before-he-died/
A story of how, despite being wildly famous and popular and making millions, Avicii still wanted to walk away from the pressure and performance that, apparently, drove him to drink and cost him his gall bladder, appendix, and maybe more. Certainly he seems to have felt that it cost him the real person behind the superstar persona. As I remarked to DJ Purple last night I feel like we're witnessing the 21st-century version of the stress, burnout, and resort to self-administered chemicals that cost us some of the biggest names in rock & roll.
If you don't recognize his tracks by name, have a listen. You've heard these, I expect, mixed and used many places:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovdm2yX4MA - Levels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrbM1l_BoI - Wake Me Up (1.5 billion views on that one alone)
And the one that will likely always be my personal favorite:
https://www.vevo.com/watch/faithless/insomnia-2-0-avicii-remix-(official)/GB1101500984
RIP Avicii. I hope wherever you are you've found the peace you didn't have in this life.
