Mac DeMarco on Anxiety, Alcoholism and the Mitski controversy

https://www.huckmag.com/shorthand_story/mac-demarco-cowboy-mitski-interview-nobody/

by kikitee • 7 years ago

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lghh• 7 years ago

I didn't realize there was a Mitski controversy. I knew the songs had the same name, but it's just a single word that can represent a few different emotions. It's not like it was a super-specific title.

wk_end• 7 years ago

The albums also have very similar names (Be The Cowboy v. Here Comes The Cowboy).

zerocrates• 7 years ago

I only knew of the Mitski album until just this moment.

Clearly cowboys are now in.

I was all prepared to denounce the social-media hordes for yet again descending to defend the honor of someone who didn't ask for that... but all the mention I can find of the "controversy" is a few articles quoting the same handful of pretty tame (if wrongheaded) tweets. Maybe I should be denouncing the bloggers instead.

0x8BADF00D• 7 years ago

Surprisingly, they don’t mention his association with Freemasonry in his younger years. It may have helped him develop healthy coping mechanisms, being involved in a group larger than himself.

locusofself• 7 years ago

I love Mac's music. The single/album name clash sounds like a huge waste of time, can't believe anyone even mentioned it.

fokinsean• 7 years ago

We live in an age of outrage, people will always find ways to make something out of nothing.

vonseel• 7 years ago

Spot on. This controversy doesn’t surprise me at all.

I am a little surprised Mac wasn’t aware of her album, though. You would think the Mac world and Mitski world are relatively close circles in indie rock.

What I really wanna hear, is some of those Mac/Anderson Paak jams.

jackfrodo• 7 years ago

Obviously the Twitter outrage was way out of line, but I'll lay out the thinking as a Mitski fan:

Mitski releases Be The Cowboy, with the single "Nobody", and it's her real shot into the mainstream, and goes on to get Pitchfork's Album of the Year for 2018. And I think the Mitski fanbase is particularly bizarre in how closely they identify with her.[1]

So for Mac Demarco to release Here Comes the Cowboy, with the lead single "Nobody", right after all that, feels weird. Obviously it's a coincidence and not a big deal, but I understand why people thought it was worth mentioning.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-misreadin...

mishingo• 7 years ago

Leave Mac DeMarco alone, dude is chill and playing some tunes that aren't trying to fuck with anyone.

brootstrap• 7 years ago

Yup. I think this dude has earthbound playing on the video screen at his shows. He aint lying about listening to video game music!

oldstrangers• 7 years ago

Am I missing something? Why is this here.

mtinkerhess• 7 years ago

This was submitted by a user that only submits articles from the same site, almost none of which are really on topic for HN. Flagged.

jeffnv• 7 years ago

I liked it.

Mac DeMarco on Anxiety, Alcoholism and the Mitski controversy

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