Sunday General Discussion - January 12th, 2020 - HipHop

Sunday General Discussion - January 12th, 2020
Album Of The Year #12: Post Malone - Hollywood’s Bleeding
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Sunday General Discussion - January 12th, 2020

Posted: 12 Jan 2020 10:37 AM PST

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Album Of The Year #12: Post Malone - Hollywood’s Bleeding

Posted: 12 Jan 2020 01:54 PM PST

Artist: Post Malone

Album: Hollywood's Bleeding

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Album Background

Austin Richard Post born 1995, has first gained attention from his hit single White Iverson. A chubby, weird and goofy looking guy soon gained acclaim for his extended mix of music, and later became one of the best-selling, most streamed and most popular artists in the world. Wikipedia states that "Post makes music in various genres, such as hip hop, pop, trap, pop-rap, rock, R&B and cloud rap. Post's music has been described as a "melting pot of the country, grunge, hip-hop and R&B" and Post himself has been described as versatile. Such a huge mesh of genres makes Post Malone accessible to a wide audience of people all over the world. Post Malone has 4 No.1 Hits, 9 Top 10 Hits and 45 songs in total entering the Billboard 100 list.

Album Highlights

Hollywoods Bleeding

Quite a slow, mellow and deep intro which promises a lot. The beat switch is quite nice. Post Malone mixes rap with his melodies very well on this one. This track is actually what I expected the album to be at this point. Drake can mesh R&B and Hip Hop so well that it can be considered his own genre, but can Post mesh his melodies and various other genres with Hip-Hop to make it his own? Since his album Stoney dropped Post Malone kept turning away from hip-hop scene, the same genre that got him big in the first place yet still maintaining a strong footing in the genre.

Saint-Tropez

Saint-Tropez is one of my highlights on this album. A very melodic (probably gonna use this description for a lot of songs) and braggadocios song. Cringy/Corny/Funny (whatever you call it depends on your opinion about Post Malone) lines like:

Abs like Abercrombie Fitch, Bud light runnin' trough my piss

It doesn't take to go deep in the album to know that Post Malone can make the dumbest lines sound flashy and fun to listen to. His whole goofy-rockstar style is what works out so well for him, and there's really not that many artists like him out there at the moment. He's not a rapper, he's not a pop artist, and he's definitely not a true rock-star, so who is he?

Enemies feat. Da Baby.

Once again, Posts melodic sense is amazing, 3rd song in a row so far and he hits us with very radio friendly pop-rap song, that did quite well. DaBaby continues his highlight feature year with yet another hit. Both of these artists follow a formula, that works very well and as a result we the succesful songs sound more or less the sam

Allergic

This song demonstrates Post Malones true pop side. This song is a showcase of the different voices post Malone can pull off from red-faced yelling to smoky crooning to in between the two. It's a golden construction for a pop song, that just works for so many different fans.

Circles

This song is one of my most favorite songs off the album. The guitar riffs, the beat, the 808s and the clap fit PERRRFECTLY with Post Malones voices and hum's. When the single released this is what I expected to hear from the album, a few more deeper and experimental songs, that are a mesh of few different genre's. I'd say if I had to pick my favorite pure pop song from Post Malone it would be this one. Everything about it is just so catchy. The lyrics on this one are quite good as far as Post Malones lyricism goes.

Take What You Want feat Travis Scott, Ozzy Osbourne.

Finally we approached the most unusual, unexpected and somewhat different song from the whole album. Three completely different artists from different genres that work so well together. Travis Scott is spectacular on this one, and Ozzy just simply does not age. Post Malone holds his own taking over the hook, and show's that despite my criticism about him being a wanna-be rockstar, this image is something he, at this point can pull of the easiest.

I'm Gonna Be

This song is some melancholic pop-trap music that I would like to hear Post do more. I mean once again, there's nothing much to say about it except the fact that it's executed perfectly. By now I hope you realized how almost useless this track-by-track review is since it's not such a musically deep album. Every song on this album can be a hit. Sunflower feat. Swae Lee. Even though I would consider this a Swae Lee song, which is from the Spider – Man: Into The Spiderverse soundtrack, it still ended up on Post's album, because that's just how music and sales work these days. This is by far the most catchiest and beautiful song Post Malone has ever made. It is so fucking catchy I don't even know what else I can say about it, except that literally anyone in the world can vibe to this shit.

Goodbyes feat. Young Thug.

This is a second near-perfect song by Post Malone and Young Thug. These two just make an extremely catchy hit, and I haven't stopped listening to this song ever it released. I feel that this song demonstrates the true pop value and versatility of Young Thug as well as Post Malone's ability to adapt to almost any rapper out there. These two make a good duo and im hoping to here some more experimental melodic shit in the future.

Conclusion

Post's music comes from that zone of confusion where hip-hop and alternative rock overlap. This spot, widens every year, but it's hard to imagine the vortex producing someone as vibrant and dominant as Post Malone. Depending on how hard you squint, his music can sound anywhere from Stone Temple Pilots or Everlast or Rae Sremmurd or even Tame Impala. The team behind this sound ball of the last 25 years of rap and rock radio—consists of Louis Bell, Frank Dukes, and Post. Together, they made most of the brightest and most memorable tracks on last year's Beerbongs & Bentleys, and having established their winning formula, they work it relentlessly on Hollywood. Post Malone can make any song and any corny lyric sound cool or melodic. He can make surface level song sound deep with the right production and just-the right tone of his voice. This is a gift that not a lot of artist have. It may seem that this review is a bash on Post Malone, but what my true point is that a guy with his talent should be making music that is much more interesting than what he is making right now. Beerbongs & Bentleys was a successful record, and it had interesting deep cuts that are much better than Hollywood's deep cuts, such as 92 Explorer, Zack and Codeine and Sugar Wraith. Post Malone is left in a place where he has to produce hits, because that's what his label wants, and so far he has been a great investment. But this style, will soon get boring, with the next big pop-rap star coming in the game (whoever that might be).

Overall, Hollywood's Bleeding is Post Malones successful attempt to secure his radio spot for another year or two. Every song here is just extremely polished for the radio. The mix between alt-rock, hip hop and pop turns out to be a quite good formula for people who can pull it off, but not everyone can do it as well as Post Malone. Post Malones corny, lazy, and sometimes just plain stupid lyrics are what is fun about him. His spot in the music right now is just that radio guy who's can pull off any hook or feature as well as anyone else (rivaled by Drake, but atleast Drake can makes songs interesting by putting some of Drake's own style). Depending on how you look at it, I wouldn't consider Post Malone's style and formula unique. It is just a mix of everything that works. And it works wonders. Malone sounds great on everything, from Tiesto remixes to holding up his own with some of the most popular rappers out there. This album does not invent a new style, it does not produce something extremely new and interesting. As far as albums go I would put it barely in front of Stony, just because how well polished it is. There is so much filler, but as far as filler's go, even these are hits.

I'd give a 7,5/10 a very safe score, for a very safe album from a very safe artist.

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Big Sean - Beware (featuring Lil Wayne and Jhene Aiko)

Posted: 12 Jan 2020 05:17 PM PST

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Nujabes - Lady Brown (feat. Cise Starr)

Posted: 12 Jan 2020 07:57 AM PST

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Mac Miller - Cinderella (ft Ty $)

Posted: 12 Jan 2020 06:26 AM PST

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Young Thug x Metro Boomin (Metro Thuggin) - The Blanguage (Official Video)