[Album Review] Jojo’s Review of The Divine Feminine by Mac Miller

The Divine Feminine is a soulful, and Intimate Mac Miller album exploring a multifaceted spectrum of love, femininity, and emotional vulnerability. It shares themes of Romance, Love, Spiritual admiration of women, and the balance of energy. The Divine Feminine explores love and admiration and spiritual connection through a jazzy r&b sound. Centering on reverence for women and the universe. Themes are expressed through the lyrics in the songs. “My favorite part” and “congratulations” and “you were everything I ever wanted.” Because it shows that women should be treated better and should be more appreciated and accepted into this world.

I can relate to love and the balance of energy. When I listen to the song “Congratulations” as a woman, that song makes me feel loved and that there are amazing men out there. It showed me that you shouldn’t give up everything for love, and that love will find you. The instruments in this album are characterized by a sound that is intimate, warm, and romantic. It feels physically light and airy in its romantic moments, yet weighed with heavy slow-rolling bass during its more sensual, intimate sections. It borrows flavors from other styles and departs from the traditional constraints of hip-hop blending jazz and funk to create an intimate sound. It is characterized by warm, jazzy and romantic piano and soulful cascading horns that serve as the main character. It influences trumpets, saxophones, and piano keys. I would say the album feels like a significant step forward. Mac Miller only became super famous after his death. Compared to “The Divine Feminine” (2016) Mac Miller’s last project “Swimming” (2018) represents a more mature introspective and refined evolution of his sound. “The Divine Feminine” was heavily influenced by Miller’s personal pursuit of vulnerability, sobriety and a healthier headspace following the dark drug-induced depression of faces. It was deeply inspired by his relationship with Ariana Grande. “The Divine Feminine” is a solid starting point for a new fan, provided they enjoy r&b and jazz influenced hip-hop rather than strictly hard hitting rap. While it is a distinct departure from his earlier “frat rap” era. I wouldn’t say it’s considered a “deep cut” or exclusively for long time followers. It is viewed as a highly cohesive, romantic, and mature artistic pivot. The central conflict would be internal, focusing on overcoming past emotional pain to fully embrace intimacy, the primary conflict would be the struggle to move from a state of guarded, self focused or destructive energy into a state of openness, adoration, and emotional honesty. “You were there before the fancy cars and you were there when I was just a starving artist.” It’s important because it grounds “divine” love in reality, the duality of growth and loss. Setting the stage for the journey and just love in general. The narrator is a lover- but one who is deeply reflective, vulnerable, and a bit haunted by the passage of time. The narrator is Mac Miller talking to his inner and outer self about his feelings of love and how he expresses those feelings through music. Mac Miller’s music feels like a quiet morning. I listen to The Divine Feminine when I’m in a good chill mood. I have to be relaxed. I listen when I am taking a bath, falling asleep, and playing roblox, or when I’m in a car full of people in the middle of the night driving home from a party. A lot of different songs in the album put you in a relaxed mood even if you’re in a bad one. You will definitely feel more upbeat, you might bop your head back and forth, and dance. The Divine Feminine album puts you through all of the feelings of love, and sometimes they aren’t always good feelings. The Divine Feminine gives me chills every time I listen to it. My body jolts with a bunch of different feelings and emotions. The music itself feels like love. I think Mac Miller was trying to confess his love for Ariana Grande. I think the whole album was about him trying to confess his love to her and it did succeed. They got together until Mac Miller passed away. The track “soulmate” is my favorite song of the album. In this song, it wasn’t Mac’s voice that got me hooked. The sound vibrations that he was able to come up with went so well with his voice and that will be my forever favorite song. Listening to the track fade out was honestly very sad. The song ended too soon. As a woman listening to that, It just shows that when we feel down, we are appreciated. The sad thing is that most people think love doesn’t exist. Mac Miller’s album “The divine feminine” really shows that there is love all around us even if we can’t see it.