When Mac Miller performed a string of intimate shows at the hotel cafe at the time of swimming's release,

he was testing the waters of new touring material, very aware of the audience reactions to different songs.

Luckily for Small Worlds, one of Mac's favorite songs on the album the live experience was perfect.

I can feel my finger slipping in a mother-fucking instant I be going.

Do you want it all if it's all mediocre

standing at the wall in the wall from the posters.

That was like my one of my favorite

I was there.

And my homie, my best friend literally was like, he was like, his one's going to go crazy lives.

And what happened?

It's nuts.

That's the one I got to do for you for you.

But it's also chill.

Like, I mean, like you mean like a slower record,

on the record though, I appreciate.

As Mack says here, Small Worlds is a slower record and chill,

but it still goes nuts.

Mack had achieved the alchemy of finding excitement and joy at slow speeds, the very essence of Mac's efforts documented on swimming.

From Spotify, I'm Cole Kushna and this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short

digestible episodes. Today we continue our serialized analysis of Mack Miller swimming with its eighth track, Small Worlds. Oh, Yeah. Small Worlds was produced by Taubist with additional production by Carter Lange.

The track's drum sounds come from a sample of Sweet Thursday's 1968 song, Gilbert Street.

These drums made the rounds throughout the 2010s as they were sampled and used in childish Gambino's urn. Thundercats'ion. Evangelion. T Tori Mois has so many details.

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