About this song
- Collaborating with Earl Sweatshirt on both production and vocals, “I’m Not Real” is the third track featured on Watching Movies with the Sound Off. The idea that Mac Miller was digressing undergoing an internal battle in a brutally honest way can be discerned from the lowered tone of his voice; completely juxtaposed to the high-pitched delivery of his Delusional Thomas persona and an anomaly compared with the majority of his discography. With it being the writing on the walls within “The Star Room’s” music video, the title of the song itself is paradoxical. If you claim you’re not real, does that make you real? The first verse features Mac reflecting upon himself in a negative, depressing light and the content presented in Earl’s hooks can to some extent be regarded as the defence mechanism catalysing the energy/resilience of the lyrics featured in the second. It isn’t so much an example of transitioning between feelings of negativity to positivity as it is an illustration of replacing regret/depression with arrogance/anger, though… . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
