“I had no idea.”Īfter the funeral in Sweden, his closest collaborators were left with more than grief. “ ‘Hey buddy, what’s going on?’ ‘I’m doing great.’ ‘What are you working on? Let’s schedule a time next week for other sessions.’ ‘Oh, I can’t do it next week, I’m going to Oman.’ ‘What’s in Oman?’ ‘I don’t know man, I hear it’s beautiful.’ ”īergling sounded “jovial, happy,” Jacobson said. “My conversations with Tim?” Jacobson recounted. While Bergling’s struggles were well-known, those who knew him personally didn’t expect anything like what happened. The news devastated the dance and pop music communities, along with his family (he was survived by his parents and three siblings). His suicide cut all that reinvention short. But Bergling had approved of its candor, and he seemed to be rounding a bend in his recovery. A documentary, “Avicii: True Stories,” came out on Swedish Netflix just days after his death and captured a deeply troubled star nearly broken by the stress of fame. It is the beginning of something new,” he wrote in a statement at the time. “The next stage will be all about my love of making music to you guys. In 2016 he retired from his relentless touring to focus on recovery and studio work. “This guy is one of the best melody writers, naturally from his soul, I’ve ever met in my life,” Chic founder Nile Rodgers told The Times last year (high praise from a man who collaborated with David Bowie and Daft Punk).īergling was candid about his problems with heavy drinking and mental health. One of his biggest hits came in 2013 with the folk-tinged “Wake Me Up,” with soul singer Blacc on lead vocals. He was parodied by Andy Samberg as DJ Davvinci on “SNL” (Bergling reportedly loved the skit).īut even in that heady era, Bergling stood out as a restless songwriter who pushed the boundaries EDM placed around him. With his breakout single “Le7els” in 2011, Avicii helped define an era of mega-festivals like Electric Daisy Carnival, when DJs suddenly commanded mid-six-figures for gigs. You want to be remembered for what made you feel alive.”īergling’s death was, in some ways, a valediction for the uplifiting, industry-shaking EDM scene of the 2010s. But there’s so much blank space that’s unfilled and so many things left unsaid. “I felt anxious, being a voice for that in some way. “We never expected what happened,” Janiak said. But now it’s become an Avicii album for everyone left behind. Emma Bowman adapted it for the Web.It would have an optimistic statement piece from Bergling, who had retired from touring after well documented struggles with substance abuse and mental health. NPR's Dustin DeSoto and Liz Baker produced and edited this story for broadcast. "It became almost like a comfort to work on these songs and to have them, to listen to, to remember and to think back on the whole process how they were put together." "That song sums up the record for me," he says.Īnd Falk has managed to treasure the positive memories. It's an up-and-down contrast that's mirrored in the mixed emotions Falk felt throughout the album's production. "And the contrast between slow and fast should be the thing." "Then, when the melody drop part came, it would almost be double tempo," he says. "The rest of it was all about him."Īvicii - who in 2016 announced his retreat from the world tour lifestyle after years of hard partying had taken a toll on his health - wanted to write a song that felt really slow, Falk says. "It was one of those songs that finished because Tim couldn't decide what should be the verse and what should be the chorus," he says.Īvicii's slow piano is heard in the track's intro. The Two-Way Electronic Dance Music Superstar Avicii Dies At 28
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