Depending on how hard you squint, his music sounds alternately and suspiciously like Stone Temple Pilots or Sugar Ray or Everlast or Rae Sremmurd or Def Leppard or Tame Impala. Artists keep wandering out of this spot, which widens every year, but it’s hard to imagine the vortex producing someone as ready for algorithmic dominion than Post. Post’s music comes from that zone of confusion where hip-hop and alternative rock overlap. It is an immaculate pop construction, and the words-“You’re friends with all my demons/The only one that sees them/Too bad for you”-are just delivery systems for the thrill.
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He uses all three of those voices plus a surprisingly lithe falsetto on “Allergic,” which features a chorus that feels like a down-the-middle split between 2003 Fall Out Boy, 2002 Weezer, and 1983 Billy Joel. He is also a sneakily agile singer, switching from red-faced howling to smoky crooning to something warbly and strange in between these two poles. 1 at the beginning of this year, shows up again outside of last year’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack, and its presence here among all these other soon-to-be Top 10 hits feels almost like arm-twisting.
Hollywood’s Bleeding has about 10 titanium-grade hooks on it, choruses so immediate they erect stadiums in your head while they play-“I’m Gonna Be,” “Staring at the Sun,” “Allergic,” Enemies,” “Myself,” “Wow.” He seems to almost belch these out: “Got so many hits, can’t remember ’em all/While I’m taking a shit, look at the plaques on the wall,” he yawns charmingly on “On the Road.” “ Sunflower,” his Swae Lee duet that hit No. Each one sounds like it could furnish a down payment on a personal helipad. But Post Malone’s choruses are just stupefyingly good. Yes, the lyrics can be infuriatingly lazy, particularly when he’s tracing over hip-hop tropes about the Mille on his wrist or the 50 carats on his fist. There could be, and have been, far worse pop hegemonies, and in a few years, when his cherubic-face-tatted mug has receded somewhat, the virtues of his music will become more apparent.
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But if you can wriggle free from all that for just a moment, there is a lot to appreciate in his music. He is kind of a sentient keg stand he has a pretty lazy and unexamined relationship with hip-hop there is strong evidence that he might not exactly be the sort of person who thinks through his actions. There are plenty of valid reasons to bemoan his dominance.
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