October 2019 - Music
Album of the Month - Hollywood's Bleeding by Post Malone
The culture wasn’t demanding a James-Franco-in-Spring-Breakers-esque rapper-crooner in summer 2015, when “White Iverson” quietly started its months-long climb to No. 14 on the Hot 100. But Post Malone was fruitful, and his smashes multiplied. “White Iverson” (30 weeks on the Hot 100) beget “Congratulations” feat. Quavo (50 weeks) beget “Rockstar” feat. 21 Savage (41 weeks, his first No. 1) beget “Psycho” feat. Ty Dolla Sign (39 weeks, his second No. 1) beget “Sunflower” with Swae Lee (45 weeks, his third No. 1). He’s hit the top five twice this year
Post Malone curates as much as he creates, and there’s not a misplaced feature among the 10 spread across seven of these tracks. Young Thug steals “Goodbyes” with a typically transfixing, artfully yelped verse; Future and especially Halsey juice up the drama on “Die for Me”; SZA takes “Staring at the Sun” into a swoon. And Posty finally walks among the gods on “Take What You Want,” in which Ozzy Osbourne wails from a paranoid past and Travis Scott robo-sings from a future dystopia. It’s not Post Malone’s best song, but in a way it’s his most interesting: An unstoppable hitmaker drowning out his own sweetly pleading voice.
The culture wasn’t demanding a James-Franco-in-Spring-Breakers-esque rapper-crooner in summer 2015, when “White Iverson” quietly started its months-long climb to No. 14 on the Hot 100. But Post Malone was fruitful, and his smashes multiplied. “White Iverson” (30 weeks on the Hot 100) beget “Congratulations” feat. Quavo (50 weeks) beget “Rockstar” feat. 21 Savage (41 weeks, his first No. 1) beget “Psycho” feat. Ty Dolla Sign (39 weeks, his second No. 1) beget “Sunflower” with Swae Lee (45 weeks, his third No. 1). He’s hit the top five twice this year
Post Malone curates as much as he creates, and there’s not a misplaced feature among the 10 spread across seven of these tracks. Young Thug steals “Goodbyes” with a typically transfixing, artfully yelped verse; Future and especially Halsey juice up the drama on “Die for Me”; SZA takes “Staring at the Sun” into a swoon. And Posty finally walks among the gods on “Take What You Want,” in which Ozzy Osbourne wails from a paranoid past and Travis Scott robo-sings from a future dystopia. It’s not Post Malone’s best song, but in a way it’s his most interesting: An unstoppable hitmaker drowning out his own sweetly pleading voice.
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