\"If you are here because of Mac Miller's \"Circles\" album, and \"Blue World\" in particular, (https://youtu.be/_GC2wFTCAGY) I hope you all enjoy hearing the original song. I will admit to not knowing about Mac Miller until I started seeing his fans here. Truly, I was sad to read that he passed so soon. I like that he put it out there in his music. You can be going through some rough times and problems, but from what I've been reading, Mac didn't let it weigh him down- he used music to heal. So now, while others may be discovering The Four Freshmen for the first time, I'm discovering Mac Miller for the first time. R.I.P. Mac Miller.
I didn't grow up with The Four Freshmen. It was a sheer fluke that I even heard this song. I was going up and down the radio dial one day and it HAS to say volumes about the beauty of this song that it immediately caught my ears. I mean, I wasn't going station-by-station; I was just zooming quickly, trying to find the music I like and in about a millisecond, the harmonies of \"It's A Blue World\" caught my ear and my finger stopped turning the dial as if it knew before I did that this was something...SOMETHING to hear. I only caught maybe the last half of this song and that was enough. I did my Google search and found out who these men were, the faces behind the voices. Then I realized, OH! I've heard about The Four Freshmen before. This was the group Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys loved and inspired him.
Things come full circle. I always wondered why The Beach Boys had those harmonies. I wasn't a die hard fan of the group, but I knew of and liked enough of their music to know they had a vocal sound that wasn't like anyone else. I just couldn't put a name or method to what those harmonies were- they certainly were not the usual Rock 'N' Roll harmonies. Now, learning about The Four Freshmen, I started learning about jazz harmonies. Amazing harmonies. That's what gave The Beach Boys that edge.
\"It' A Blue World\" is really something amazing. It's one of the songs that you don't just listen to- it invades your soul. Such a beautiful melancholy, a blue sound, blue harmonies. Can't qualify the effect with mere words. You just listen to it and you know where I'm going with this. So the beauty of this cuts across age, race and everything else, just like all good music. I really appreciate hearing that Mac Miller was moved by this too.\"
