Austin Richard Post, known professionally as Post Malone, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His music blends various genres including pop, hip-hop, trap, country, R&B, and rock.
real name: Austin Richard Post
labels: Republic Records, Mercury Records
genres: pop music, hip-hop, country music, contemporary R&B, pop rock, rap rock, trap music, pop rap
awards: Billboard Music Award for Top Artist
plays: voice, guitar
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Austin Richard Post was born on July 4, 1995, in Syracuse, New York. He was raised by his father, Richard Post, and his stepmother, Jodie. His father had been a DJ in his youth and introduced Malone to many genres of music including hip-hop, country, and rock. When Malone was nine years old, he and his family moved to Grapevine, Texas, after his father became the manager of concessions for the Dallas Cowboys football team. According to Malone, his first foray into professional music began when he played guitar in a local metalcore band. His interest in the genre persisted past this endeavor as he also auditioned as a guitarist for the Texas-based metalcore group Crown the Empire in 2010, but was rejected after his guitar strings broke...
According to Malone, he chose "Post Malone" as his stage name when he was "14 or 15". The name was rumored to be a reference to the professional basketball player Karl Malone, but Malone later explained that "Post" is his last name, and he used a "rap name generator" to get "Malone".
Malone's music combines pop, hip-hop, trap, country, R&B, and rock, often falling into the styles of cloud rap, pop rap, indie folk, and rap rock. Malone's music has been described as a "melting pot of the country, grunge, hip-hop and R&B" that he grew up on, and Malone himself has been described as versatile. His vocal style has been described as "laconic". Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described Malone as "an artist who toes the line between singing and rapping, and hip-hop and spooky electric folk". Malone himself has called his music "genre-less".
"Circles" is a song by American musician Post Malone. It was released through Republic Records on August 30, 2019, as the third single from Malone's third studio album Hollywood's Bleeding (2019).
It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for the week of November 30, 2019, topping the chart for three weeks, marking Post Malone's fourth number-one song, as well as his first solo effort to top the chart. The song also reached number one in Iceland, Malaysia, and New Zealand, as well as the top 10 in 20 additional countries.
"Circles" is a soft rock, downtempo, alternative rock, and pop song that draws from elements of pop rock and consists of a "bouncy, melancholy" melody, alongside a "gentle acoustic groove". The chorus has been described as "compulsory singalong". It is written in the key of C major, in common time, at a tempo of 120 beats per minute. It follows a chord structure of Cmaj7–Em/B–Fmaj7–Fm, followed by Cmaj7–Em/B–Fmaj7–G6.
The song received critical acclaim. Billboard described it as being "backed by sunny acoustic guitars, swirling percussion, and infectious melodies", and that while it has a "funky feel, the meaning is a bit more somber, detailing a relationship gone cold".
The music video, directed by Colin Tilley, was released on September 3, 2019. As of September 2024, it has over 700 million views on YouTube. It is a medieval-style metaphor of the main theme of the song, "running in circles" in a relationship and failing to put an end to it, thus ending up getting hurt. Post Malone plays a knight in armor who has to rescue a princess locked up in a tower (but endowed with magical powers). The princess, seeing the future through a magic mirror, discovers that Post will be defeated by the enemies and burned alive. Meanwhile, Post has a hallucination in which he sees the same future and is then buried alive by zombies, but the princess awakens him with a magic blue rose (which symbolizes the unattainable)....
"Die for Me" is a song by American musician Post Malone featuring American rapper Future and American singer Halsey from the former's third studio album Hollywood's Bleeding (2019). It was written alongside Billy Walks and producers Andrew Watt, Louis Bell, and Happy Perez.
"Die 4 Me" contains two new verses containing similar themes of Halsey's original verse on "Die For Me", which is also included with slight adjustments. For example, the line "I sold fifteen million copies of a break-up note", referring to Halsey's largest song "Without Me", is updated to forty million copies.
Halsey had been performing her original verse of "Die For Me" on the Love and Power Tour, responding to fan demand for the full release of a demo of the song with only herself. She then began teasing its release on social media leading up to it. In a post she said, "Big big thanks to Post Malone, Louis Bell, and Future for having me on the original release and co-signing this version finally seeing daylight."