Avicii: True Stories Page #4

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- Tomorrow.

- What time?

- Your set's 9:
30.

Suits.

So, we'll be picked up

for like 8:
00, 8:30.

Future is asking if there's

any chance you could do a, like...

phone interview... with...

What they're asking for

is a 30-minute, for one o'clock,

for a couple of different radio stations

just to call you,

to show that you're back on track,

coming out.

Yeah, sure.

But... would you be up for them

in like two hours, 12:30?

[sombre music]

[crowd cheering]

When we on stage, man,

it's like a fantasy.

We are gods.

In a strange way,

that feels like our reward.

[Wyclef] We feel no pain.

Tim is a hard worker, man.

I can't eat anything.

[Wyclef] 'Cause as an artist, they just

want us on the beat like a machine.

Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh...

And then you burn out.

[Avicii] The hospital visit has stuck

in my mind as

an extremely terrible experience,

but it didn't bother me as much

as the pain afterwards did,

which was much less,

but it's every day when you wake up.

The second you open your eyes,

you're like... [imitates click]

Your stomach is hurting.

When you're moving, you're hurting.

The pain medicine made me feel shitty.

To me, it felt like I was constantly

in, like, a haze.

And you don't know how long that's gonna...

It's gonna be like that for,

and the doctors don't know

how long it's gonna be.

[Ash] All of a sudden,

"Wake Me Up" becomes huge.

[Per]

Everything took off in summer 2013.

Here we go!

["Wake Me Up" playing]

[cheering]

[Avicii]

My life was a dream to so many people.

I am including myself. It was a dream.

House music and... and dance music

really had such a... such a rise

at the same time I had my rise.

[chanting] Avicii! Avicii! Avicii!

Avicii! Avicii! Avicii...

[cheering]

You know, it was a lot of work,

a lot of heavy tours,

and I just kind of went

with all the punches that came along,

because I was so extremely lucky

to be able to do what I am doing.

But I didn't take the time to really

figure out what I wanted to do,

and how I wanted to do it.

I just kind of went along with the flow.

But I only focused on music

and the touring, really,

and then I just watched everything

kind of happen.

And I had to obviously do

whatever I said I was gonna do.

If it's, you know,

promotion, this or that,

but it was never really my plan.

I think I was... I was

running after some...

Like, another... like, an idea

of happiness that wasn't my own.

["Carry On" demo playing on stereo]

- Oh, so this vocal isn't part of...

- Yeah. This is the vocal...

What I learned from Michael Jackson was

the orchestra lives in his head.

His neuro fully understands every dot,

and how everything should go,

so it's like an inside symphony.

So you have those that are like me,

that have to physically touch the piano.

Then you have Tim,

similar to Michael Jackson.

This is so important

that the world understands this.

The actual symphony now lives

in his entire head.

He's doing this

like as Bach did what he did.

So I do think that there's something

we might be missing,

the fact that we're making a separation

from D.J.s and musicians.

Tim, to me,

he's a hardcore music theorist,

and that's what makes a great composer.

- Let's try one more, just for sure.

- Mm-hmm.

[track playing]

Carry on, carry on,

carry on, he said

Carry on, carry on, carry on

Won't be long, won't be long

Won't be long, he said

Carry on, carry on, carry on

When the day will be mine

Will be mine...

[Tisto] What I think is unique about him

is how he approaches the songs.

He's very innovative in his melodies.

You know, he did "Levels", "Wake Me Up".

And those two songs were not with,

like, famous singers, or collabs, or...

It was just him

putting something special together,

and I think he was the first D.J.

that broke into the mainstream, like

that big, in an authentic kind of way.

["Wake Me Up" playing]

And the American Music Award goes to...

[both] Avicii!

[cheering and applause]

Um, I just wanna say thank you

to everyone who voted for me,

um, and thank you to my manager, my label.

Um, thank you so much.

[people chattering indistinctly]

I recovered

from my first kind of pancreatitis.

I was off the pain medication.

Everything was fine,

I w-wasn't on any medication.

- Then I got back to...

- See you tomorrow, man.

Uh, Miami for the Ultra show.

My appendix ruptured

and my, uh, gall bladder ruptured as well.

[clears throat]

I need to get some sleep.

I was feeling like sh*t, and then

the only solution that I got was...

Uh, when... when does

my next pain medication come?

I have here...

to take, like, a medicine for it

or to battle through it.

Every time I went into the hospital,

it was like that.

Take this and you'll kind of feel better.

Maybe you're just used

to taking the Percocet?

You've built up a tolerance.

But I've never used...

I've never taken Percocet before.

Percocet is f***ing heroin!

- You're getting Percocets?

- Yes, we are, but they're not helping.

Well, yeah, they will...

It didn't help my pain,

that was the weird thing.

So he gave me something

that didn't really help with my pain,

but if the doctor says so,

I guess this is hospital,

I guess he still knows what he's doing

and, you know, kind of like that.

What happened was, uh,

your blood pressure started dropping.

But it started dropping when I started

to add the... all the other things into it,

when I started adding the, uh,

the anti-anxiety thing for headache,

and the other headache things,

which I would be fine

to try to take everything else off,

but don't take the only things

that are working...

- All right.

- for me.

This doesn't feel right.

These pains could last for a very long

time, that was the f***ed-up part of it.

I understood when I was in...

When I had my pancreatitis, that it...

I had to be on the medications...

during that, when I was in the hospital,

when I was hospitalised.

That wasn't really the big problem.

The big problem is... that the pain...

the... the pain stays with you.

For me, it was different each time.

The first time, [stammers]

it stuck with me for a month.

The second time, I think it stuck with me

for like four months.

It... It kept not... It didn't stop.

I di... I didn't see

the alternatives to this.

You might feel pain free with high doses,

but your body starts...

Your blood pressure starts going down.

But we'll see, we'll try.

If not Dilaudid, something else...

I wasn't even alerted

that my blood pressure was...

There was no communication. No one said:

"Your blood pressure has gone high."

- No, it just...

- It's just being moved and then...

Okay, we'll contact you.

- It's a code blue, okay?

- Okay.

[rock music]

[Avicii]

I was on all these kind of medications.

So they were saying:

"You can take this, this is fine.

This is not addictive,

this is not addictive."

And then I was, like, taking

20 pills of some f***ing gabapentin here.

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