Avicii Said He Hoped He Could 'Learn How to Be Content' in Poignant Documentary Voiceover Before His Death

Mar. 15, 2025

Tim Bergling aka Avicii in Avicii — I’m Tim.Photo:Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

Aviciiwas at the height of his career when he all but walked away from music, pulling the plug on upcoming concert dates in order tofocus on his health.

By 2017, though, the Swedish DJ seemed to have reignited his passion for songwriting — and was doing his best to look inward with the hopes of discovering the key to happiness.

Avicii attends Volvo Cars and Avicii Feeling Good About The Future on May 7, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.Michael Kovac/Getty Images

“My dream would be to be completely, completely at ease and completely happy with what I’ve got already, and not really have any aspirations to do a billion other things,” he says in the documentary. “F—, I just want to be free from all the ideas of a life. Those are the things that kept me from living life, has been that exact thing: just having an idea of what life should be and what should make me happy.”

He continues, “You know, making a bigger song will make me more happy, or this, this and this. Nothing has turned out to be true. But I want to learn how to be content. That would be life for me. Being content.”

In the film, Bergling says he began to see change in his life when he gave himself “room to explore.” As a result, says he felt a new sense of freedom that allowed him to finally begin making music for himself.

Still, Falk acknowledges there “was a darkness” to his friend in the months leading up to his death, as he’d often cancel music sessions to meditate or for other reasons unknown.

Interviews in the documentary with colleagues and collaborators indicate that Bergling was looking toward the future when he traveled to Muscat, Oman for vacation in April 2018.

Singer Joe Janiak says the musician told him he’d be calling “every week” while he was traveling, while an executive at his record label says Bergling was excited about an upcoming session with singer Angelique Kidjo that he scheduled while away.

source: people.com