Post Malone's 'Hollywood's Bleeding’ is musical progress, if not emotional, for the sad king of streaming
That the question comes a mere 90 seconds into his new album tells you quite a bit about this dirtbag philosopher — and about the gloomy pop-music ecosystem in which he’s flourished.
“Me and Kurt feel the same,” he moans of the grunge icon whose songs he’s covered in concert, “Too much pleasure is pain.” It’s an outrageous claim made only more so by the fact that he surely believes it. But unlike “Stoney” and “Beerbongs & Bentleys,” this album feels composed of discrete stylistic exercises; no longer is he boiling down rap and rock and a little bit of country into a kind of smearable paste.
It’s not just that Malone is separating out his various influences; he also seems determined to make each song a complete emotional experience, with higher highs and lower lows — a definite shift from his early days, when he built albums with a Spotify-geared set-it-and-forget-it quality.
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