Reviews: Lil Peep – Everybody’s Everything Is Everything Fan’s Need To Fill The Void

By Resonate | June 13, 2020

Words Hope Taylor

‘I just wanna be everybody’s everything’ was the caption of an Instagram posted just days before the demise of 21-year-old Gus Åhr, AKA Lil Peep.  This music documentary review focuses on an emotive documentary, a montage of home movies that includes interviews with Lil Peep and a number of significant people in his life. Directors Sebastian Jones and Ramez Silvan tell the heart-wrenching, cautionary tale of how a happy-go-lucky toddler turned into an international rap sensation. The heartstrings are tugged from the beginning until the very end.

Throughout his career, Lil Peep had struggled with mental health and addiction. Instead of focusing on the demons that plagued his life, the filmmakers made a conscious effort to centre the piece around the kind-hearted, vulnerable nature of the artist. As a viewer, you can’t help but feel helpless watching such a sensitive artist endure life in a disruptive LA loft environment with close friends (many of whom seem like users). There are even times where you physically shudder while watching clips of him perform live. In one eerie clip, he sings ‘cocaine, all night long’ which juxtapositionally cuts to a photo of a young Gus, smiling. 

The documentary is incredibly touching. Home video clips are sprinkled throughout, utilising Fall Out Boy‘s frontman, Patrick Stump, and his haunting score overlaying personal letters between Lil Peep and his grandfather. But, it’s not all doom and gloom. With old friends sharing anecdotes, happy memories and the integral journey of a boy that revolutionised an entire genre, you can’t help but have admiration for a talent that was taken too soon.

This music documentary, Everybody’s Everything, is the full story of Lil Peep. It should be seen by everyone as a cautionary tale surrounding the rise and fall of someone quite extraordinary.

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