Post Malone has conquered every genre except for classical music — yet. He’s an artist feeding off bits and pieces from various styles and then spitting them back out as great songs. His second album Beerbongs & Bentleys featured a handful of great songs. Despite initially showing some promise, Posty clearly has chosen streaming ambitions over artistic quality.
Announced last month with the release of his rock-leaning single “Circles,” the album follows his recent hits “Sunflower” featuring Swae Lee and “Goodbyes” featuring Young Thug, both of which have been mainstays on the Billboard Hot 100 this year. Following its appearance on the soundtrack for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, “Sunflower” peaked at No. 1, spending a whopping 45 weeks on the charts, while “Goodbyes” made it to No. 3, now with 8 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.
Following the announcement of Hollywood’s Bleeding, the rapper, born Austin Post, also took to Instagram to reveal a list of collaborators featured on the record, which in addition to including expected appearances from Future, Travis Scott, Meek Mill, Halsey, SZA, DaBaby, and Lil Baby, also features from Ozzy Osbourne.
Hollywood’s Bleeding is Post’s third album under the namesake and first since the release of his 2018 album Beerbongs & Bentleys. That album included hit singles like “Rockstar,” “Psycho,” and “Better Now,” and was one of the best-selling albums of the year behind Taylor Swift’s Reputation and Drake’s Scorpion. Most recently, Post released a video for his Hollywood’s Bleeding single “Circles”, which finds him wandering a bloody battlefield dressed in a heavy suit of armor.
In that sense, Posty is a very modern star – he’s able to skillfully pick from different genres. It’s led to questions of how much he means it, but Post Malone is the star the kids have called for, a musician made for the internet-age; a goofball chameleon instinctively skilled at understanding the ways genres can merge together. These are albums made as playlists that skip seamlessly between styles. And never has this been truer than on ‘Hollywood’s Bleeding’.
All in all, Posty’s album is a great album that has a lot of variety and everyone should definitely listen to it, and most critics and fans have given it good ratings as expected.
