“I didn’t like having to be Avicii, and then having to be Tim.”
That heartbreaking line from Avicii captures the gnawing duality of the legendary DJ, who posthumously narrates his personal tragic journey within the upcoming Netflix documentary Avicii – I’m Tim.
Due out December thirty first on Netflix, the movie is about to launch in tandem with Avicii – My Final Present, which revisits the evening he graced the stage of Ibiza’s storied Ushuaïa membership for what can be his closing efficiency. The prolific songwriter and dance music producer, whose actual title was Tim Bergling, died by suicide lower than two years later in 2018.
“I was a lot happier before I was famous than after I was famous,” Bergling says within the documentary, of which EDM.com considered an advance screening. “I started feeling kind of very empty and unhappy. So I was just on autopilot mode. I started really f***ing wondering why I was feeling like this. I hadn’t been honest to myself, what I was feeling… And my tempo also didn’t really give me much time to explore it either.”
Many have spun the final vestiges of Avicii into multimedia experiences within the wake of his loss of life, however none have achieved the extent of intimacy as Avicii – I am Tim. Director Henrik Burman stated he absorbed “thousands of hours” of personal archival footage, audio recordings and even ultrasound scans and babyhood recollections captured on household VHS tapes, lots of which seem within the movie.
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It is a poignant retrospective inspecting the gradual deterioration of a generational artist grappling with the unrelenting weight of the music trade’s calls for, and in determined want of an escape. When Bergling’s interior demons lastly turned too loud to disregard, his father Klas organized an hours-long intervention attended by the DJ’s siblings, associates and administration workforce, he reveals within the movie. His son was “furious” and refused to provide in at first, however in the end agreed it was time to vary.
“It was excruciatingly painful to see the look in his eyes,” Klas recalled with a wince.
Avicii’s musical collaborators shared comparable issues on the time. It was agonizingly clear the haunting lyrics that now outline his discography had been a window into his soul as his struggles took a flip for the more severe.
Talking within the documentary, Aloe Blacc ponders Avicii’s way of thinking when writing the primary strains of their collaborative music “SOS,” which in the end appeared in 2019’s posthumous album Tim. Exploring themes of persistent hope towards despair, the lyrics (“Can you hear me? SOS / Help me put my mind to rest”) left breadcrumbs of his interior turmoil that now reverberate with devastating readability.
“It seemed as though we had this call for help, and I’m receiving this letter from Tim way too late,” stated Blacc, who can be the featured voice in Avicii’s most-streamed music, the timeless “Wake Me Up.”
The movie additionally options interviews with David Guetta and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, amongst numerous different Avicii collaborators, in addition to his former supervisor Arash Pournouri, who performed a pivotal function in his rise to fame.
Avicii – I’m Tim will launch on Netflix December thirty first, 2024. You may watch the trailer under.
