Album Review: Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding

This past Friday we were blessed with Post’s third commercial album ‘Hollywood’s Bleeding’ where he takes a different approach then his recent efforts. While keeping some of the same formulas in pop, melodic, guitar feel good songs, Austin Post is able to develop as an artist but still has the same lyrical substance missing. 

Just like his other two albums, Post makes albums with a lot of tracks. With this format he uses, he’s able to give the listener a number of different ideas. However, although there isn’t necessarily a bad song on this album, there isn’t much too hold on to in terms of meaning within each song. Of course he sings about heartbreak, his haters turning to enemies, and everything else in between when your famous. Despite the hits the Texas artist produces, he won’t be able to make a classic album if his writing doesn’t improve. Such as songs like ‘Enemies’ with Da Baby which is a perfect example of Post showing how talented he his with coming up with a dope and catchy hook, but the concept is no different form any artist that becomes famous. 

Moving past the lyrics, Post does seem to advance his sound a little bit further, although he does steer more away from hip hop. Tracks like the single ‘Circles’ is a nice poppy, guitar filled song that speaks on a relationship that just goes in a constant cycle that he’s tired of. There’s a lot of songs like this that have the same drum sounds and patterns that let the listener know this isn’t hip hop. However, it’s still evident that Post wants hip hop fans to still listen by grabbing rappers such as Meek Mill, Travis Scott, and Lil Baby to name a few. Might it be a little insulting to the hip hop culture? maybe, but as long as the songs are good it doesn’t matter. 

I found myself going through this album a few times without even noticing it. That’s part of each song being about 2:30-300 average which shows that he’s not overstaying his welcome. With 17 tracks, I was hoping for more substance but enjoyed the ride.