Post Malone bores us into submission on new album
It turns out ‘Beerbongs & Bentleys’ aren’t as exciting as they sound…
After Post Malone dominated the charts for a majority of 2017 with the smash hit single Rockstar, his long awaited album Beerbongs & Bentleys (B&B) is finally here — and it doesn’t live up to the hype.
If you aren’t the biggest Post Malone fan then this album probably isn’t for you. If I’m being honest I only listened to it once in its entirety. B&B failed to impress me conceptually and lyrically. The biggest flaw of the album is that almost every track sounds identical. Posty fails to switch up his sound or experiment with new flows, which bored me while listening to this project. The feature list helps spice things up, but when a good 70% of the album is the same dreamy flow — it gets stale real quick. In my opinion the project feels more like a mixtape than an album, as Post fails to carry any theme or narrative throughout. The White Iverson singer flip flops on the messages he delivers multiple times. For example the opening track talks about being paranoid, referencing Edward Snowden (look him up) — then by track 4 on Zack and Codeine he talks about how sweet and grand his life is (points for the suite life reference though).
Let me flip-flop real quick myself and look at the positives of B&B. Firstly, there is no song on the project that I genuinely disliked. It just got stale really fast. The production value and feature list is great and every song is genuinely good. Post bottled his radio hit formula and used it on every song of the project. Any song on this album could be a radio single, which ironically leads to its downfall. All in all Post Malone delivers a good body of work where any song can be added to your playlist — I just wouldn’t sit down and listen to the whole thing through if ya know what Imean.
Best tracks: Zack and Codeine, Rockstar, Over Now, Better Now and Psycho
5/10
