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Mac DeMarco on Anxiety, Alcoholism and the Mitski controversy

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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

Am I missing something? Why is this here.

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.

I liked it.

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.

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