Who the fuck is Post Malone, and why is he popular?

Never heard of him so I googled. He's butt ugly with cheap, nasty tattoos all over his face. The epitome of fug.

Autotuned to the max. Not sure why people think he's great. He sucks.

OP here. I just looked him up on Wikipedia. He's had 19 top 20 hits in the US.

Unbelievable.

I couldn’t tell you his songs but I’ve read that he’s a wild, very nice person. Linked article is a bit hagiographic but I’ve read several articles/posts/comments that say the same thing. Credit where due, etc.

hagiographic...

Wild? ^^^ don’t remember the word I wrote but it wasn’t wild. (But maybe he IS wild.)

Post Malone’s face looks like his vicious younger sister (or cousin) drew pen all over his face while he was taking a long nap one day and the marks couldn’t come off and they stayed there permanently.

Post Malone is a tattooed freak supposedly worth $50 million.

Look at this mess...

more freak...

I kind of like his voice...

Looks smelly.

I remember reading an article a couple of years ago (before he lost weight/likely via semaglutide), and he was asked about his facial tattoos.

To paraphrase what I read, he said he'd always felt he was an ugly motherfucker, so he figured he might as well just embrace the ugliness and really commit to being ugly.

Sounds like there's some childhood shit there...

R13 it’s giving a “touched on my no-no” vibe

Holy shit, is anyone in this thread under 80 years old? He's on my Spotify queue. Have you heard of Spotify, OP? The internet, perhaps?

I actually could've known Post Malone around ten years ago through how we posted our music online. He and I are around the same age and were musicians in a similar genre (folk, singer-songwriter). Seems like he took the "let it all hang out and be total trash so I can make millions" route, while I maintained my class and became trapped in my own life.

I also could've probably known Billy Strings, but he is a little older than me, and ughhh...not exactly the classiest guy. Even ten years ago.

My son went to high school with him. He doesn't say much about him though.

Gasp

R17 get your Frau ass on the phone and get some dirt and report back to us

I'm not a frau. Whenever I ask my son about him he doesn't say much. But my son was a stoner in high school, so I'm not sure he remembers much from then.

Funny and honest observation, r20.

How is he now?

[quote]Never heard of him so I googled. He's butt ugly with cheap, nasty tattoos all over his face. The epitome of fug.

R1 I know who he is, didnt have to Google, but agree with your assessment

[quote]To paraphrase what I read, he said he'd always felt he was an ugly motherfucker, so he figured he might as well just embrace the ugliness and really commit to being ugly.

R13 Well he well and truly succeeded there, absolutely nailed it!

R8 He's worth $50 million?!? I would have been astonished if he was worth 5 mil, goes to show you dont have to be good looking to succeed in the music business. I guess he must have some real talent and personality, because he certainly wasnt carried by looks

Mid 50s person here and hate a lot of today's popular shit. I love a lot of things from past years and of course, my musical tastes are my own and not at all rep of what's popular in any genre.

For some reason, I kind of like this tattooed asshole (although I know only the songs I've heard on the radio)...I do sense more under the surface and I like the things I've heard him put out over a few years now. I don't know his catalogue, i'm talking about just the shit I've heard on the radio (remember that?).

I'm not championing him, again, because I really don't know his catalogue/albums at all. But I like him enough to know who he is and enjoy/turn up the songs I like.

My son, R21? He's finally getting his life together. He's a good kid. Always has been. Just a little unfocused.

r24 I'm glad to hear that.

I Like You is wonderfully charming and features a great turn by Dojo Cat.

Possibly his biggest hit, Sunflowers from Spiderman into the SpiderVerse with Swae Lee. This song will likely be one of the most remembered of this era.

Tiny Desk

Ah yes, I do love that song as well. It was melodic and hit during a great time of life as well.

His look is terrible but he has a decent voice. I have no idea why he’s so popular though. (When I say “decent voice” I mean “decent” — he’s no Mercury, Vedder, Cornell, etc. Just tolerable is all.)

Most of what I heard from him gets me to sing and want to hear it again. I love Sunflower, Circles. I love to hear them.

Ugh, Autotune all over that shit at r27. Fake fucking singers who can't sing and rely on technology. AI is going to be taking over the music soon and it will all sound like this crap.

r28 just as I suspect. Fucker can't even sing. He's flat.

and I like r26 too. it's just easy, breezy, lovely sounding music.

pop and quick, but I like to hear it.

music that gives you joy and pleasure to listen to it, makes you smile and maybe sing too.

I loved his album Beerbongs & Bentleys back when it came out (and still do) and was as astounded as anyone to discover the real person singing those songs. ie, holy crap

Wasn't his grandfather, Pre Malone, some early-day industrial robber-baron or something?

He has a very trendy aesthetic that young people like. He's charismatic and by all accounts a really sweet guy. If you watch interviews and stuff with him he's very likeable. He's actually fairly talented and didn't start out doing pop. He didn't do anything to write home about but he could do some pretty good grunge and country stuff. As far as the success of the music there's nothing to talk about there. It's a hype job, he was chosen to be the image for these pop hits. Not very mysterious.

[quote][R28] just as I suspect. Fucker can't even sing. He's flat

R33 He can sing better than I can, but thats a low low bar! R32 How do tell if something's autotune? I'm not really familiar with it as it doesnt seem to be much of a thing with any of the music I listen to.

I've listened to all the music vids provided on this thread (thanks R11, R26, R27, and R28) and it all sounds very generic current pop to me, a bit like Shawn Mendes but without the pretty face. You'll like it if you like that sort of thing, and you'll not like it if you dont. I fall into the latter camp, not that I dislike it but it just doesnt hold any appeal for me

I like his voice and some of his stuff.

Impossible to tell what his voice is like as it's autotuned from here to Jupiter. He also has a strange warble that doesn't add to the appeal. The lyrics are truly mind-numbing and base. I'm sure he has a nice personality though.

He's another ugly white person adored by straight people. Like a male Taylor Swift... or a hip hop Ed Sheeran.

I'm amazed some people have never ever even heard of him at all. I'm not young, either.

The younger generation seems to be quite fond of him. I only know of him from talk shows.

Postie seems very nice. At this point we could, and do, a lot worse.

I'm old, though I have heard of him, so when a catchy song came on the radio while driving from Memphis the other day, I looked to see who sang it and the radio said "Post Malone, ft. Morgan Wallen."

Here it is:

He's fallen in popularity in recent years and his latest album flopped. He's lucky that Taylor and Morgan featured him on their new songs, which might have saved his career.

R47 still #3 most streamed artist in the world on Spotify

R48, that likely took a hit before the duets.

Of all the things to shake your fist at the sky about. I'm 54 and I've known about Post Malone for years. I like his voice and as others have commented above, he seems like a very genuine and nice guy.

Yes his look is hard to reconcile with his music, but he did make that ugly comment about himself so he doesn't GAF.

At a certain point, you have to make SOME effort to keep in touch with pop culture. You don't have to like all of it, but c'mon. Makes you sound like a grandpa. And Post Malone has some good songs - he's not crap like some of the other ones.

The latest member of the Post Cereal family.

Malone-ozzzz.

Trail mix that tastes like cigarettes, pachuli, and ball sweat.

The first time I saw him was many years ago when he was featured in, what was it, a Doritos ad? I wondered who this ugly gross disgusting fuck was, why he was in an ad featured in a way that seemed to say "hey this guy is famous", especially when he was so UNAPPETIZING. Or maybe it was Mountain Dew? Who knows. I was perplexed.

Then he kept popping up in more ads, and I was like "WHO THE FUCK IS THIS GROSS UGLY DISGUSTING ASSHOLE?!?"

It was probably a year or two after that before I finally heard any name to go with the ugly face. I finally heard a song of his like a year or two ago. Actually liked the song, whatever it was. But yeah, it's autotuned over-produced stuff.

It was really weird because I was very much aware of all the other music artists around the time even if they weren't much my cup of tea, but this guy just seemed to appear as if I should already know him, with no introduction, and literally years went by before I had a clue who he was, and I still couldn't name a single song of his, yet he seems so weirdly famous.

A standard Post Malone moment

R50, I'm 72 and I couldn't agree with you more. My knowledge of Post Malone and his music consists entirely of hearing his music on the radio when I'm in the car driving. Being a retiree, I drive less than 5000 miles a year.

Post Malone is not some newbie rookie just bursting on the scene. He's been charting on Hot 100/Pop/rap charts for at least 5 years.

[quote] He's been charting on Hot 100/Pop/rap charts for at least 5 years.

Apparently...13 years...

He's 28 years old

R54 - Yep - my knowledge of him came almost only from hearing him on Sirius XM and drive-time radio now and again. I didn't do any research or effort.

Some of you need to switch off the Broadway channel and get out more.

Oh and fun fact - pop culture has always had some shit artists in every decade. Just randomly pick a top 40 week from any prior decade and look at the songs - most of them are forgettable and even cringey.

He's pivoting to country.

Posty likes only Asian women (including the mother of his daughter) so according to DL, you know what that means.

The lyrics in this song are not super inspired but quite specific, which I appreciate: "Tried to be a nice guy, John Terzian (wow)/ 'Til I started throwin' up in your Birkin (ooh)"

^That's funny because he had a flirty encounter with a fat gay comedian on Kill Tony podcast in September.

You’re about 5 years too late for this question.

He isn’t one of those celebrities who says that he doesn’t bathe often is he?

I don't think he is, r62. Perhaps, despite his tattooed appearance, his personal hygiene is - in fact - better than you might think...

R63, well, he claims he smells like musk.

Paints his fangernaylz.

R38 The song at r52 has auto tune all over it. Good example is when he says the words "Thought" i'd "Take." Both of those have been autotuned to where you can hear that digital sounding signature. He was likely flat so the engineer fixed it by putting it through the tune process and brought them up. You can totally hear it once you know what you're listening for and it's all over music today.

I work in audio so I can tell immediately when it's used, just as I can tell on TV now when someone has used AI to enhance someone's audio.

Post Malone did a fundraiser for the WHO in the early days of the COVID lockdown. He pulled a band together, including the drummer guy who's now married to a Kardashian. They were all in separate rooms and played a set of Nirvana songs. It was awesome. I've been a fan since then.

Autotune vs. No Autotune

Thanks R66, yes it isnt something I encounter much

I absolutely love this song.

Has this been posted?

I love this song too.

He’s great at writing a melody.

[quote]Post Malone’s face looks like his vicious younger sister (or cousin) drew pen all over his face while he was taking a long nap one day and the marks couldn’t come off and they stayed there permanently.

It wasn't me.

Before Mayberry he was one of Steve Allen's stock company of comic actors.

R73, interesting contribution!

He was hotter when he was fat. Now that he is skinny he is really unattractive.

R73 posted in the wrong thread. It happens. I think it's a glitch in the DL software personally. Happened to me once.

R75, Post Malone was never hot. He's always been ugly as fuck.

Wrong, R77.

R78 many people have poor eyesight. Or poor judgement. R77 is right, he was ugly and fat, and now he's thinner and marginally less ugly

He looks smelly.

Nobody cares what you think, considering you are an active supporter of genocide.

(rolling eyes at R81, who mindlessly parrots terrorist anti-Semitic propaganda and doesn't know what words mean)

Maybe he can use some of his millions to get the tatts on his dumb face removed.

Don Malone and Post Knotts sound pretty good.

You’re not rolling your eyes, R8; you’re pissed that you are no longer able to fool the world with your emotional blackmail over the Holocaust. Well, get used to it bitch. It won’t be long before we cut off that aid at the spigot and let the terror state of Israel dissolve into the ghetto (smirk) that we all know to be its natural state.

And I used the word genocide properly, dipshit. Look it up.

R81, R85 are on the same side of history as ex Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke

That tells you all you need to know

And now back to our original programme, who the fuck is Post Malone

I hate to say it but I think it's inevitable that Posty will morph into a hard right winger. His foray into country music, his love of guns, his building a shelter in Utah.

R74 That's weird. I wasn't even looking at this thread when I posted that.

i'll visit a few of my favorite song links because of this thread.

[quote][R81], [R85] are on the same side of history as ex Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke. That tells you all you need to know.

Wrong, dummy. That doesn't tell anyone any of what they need to know. But it's bullshit that you made up off the top of your head.

Now begone before someone deports you to the east.

R81, R85, R90 = rancid anti-Semitic MAGAT bigot. And just as dumb.

OP - He's a singer who changed his last name. It used to be Coitus.

His older brother Pre has an interesting story.

Post Malone is down right normal looking compared to Jelly-roll.

Nothing says class like face tattoos and gold teeth.

He is a big Shania Twain fan

It’s frustrating to know how out of touch most DLers are. I do not care for his music but I have been aware of his chart success and popularity for many years.

“Out of Touch”…. That’s the song they should choose for his next rally.

He's a famous clogger, Rose.

I’m more pre Malone myself

[Quote] face looks like his vicious younger sister (or cousin) drew pen all over his face while he was taking a long nap one day

That’s my prison tattoo joke, you bitch

The Under-45s worship anyone who is rich and gets lots of sex with hotties, but looks like they're homeless addicts. Perpetual teens whose only thoughts are where to get special foods, hanging out and their next tattoo.

All i know is everyone loves white guys with random facial tattoos and dreadlocks

Uncle Kracker? Bitch please. Post Malone has half of bakers dozen number one hits, and some of the top selling/streaming albums of the past 5 years; he is talented as fuck. The Queen had him singing on this track. I have never seen Posty sing with so much soul.

OP check his tiny desk. He is insanely talented.

Oops

He's actually one of the good guys doing music these days. He's very generous and thoughtful with his fans.

His music is terrible

[Quote] Never heard of him so I googled. He's butt ugly with cheap, nasty tattoos all over his face. The epitome of fug.

Therefore should not be famous!

I love his music. And yes, I’m old.

He’s a nice Jewish boy.

Post Malone was the very first performer to sing on the TSX stage in Times Square, so he must be famous. To this point, only Jungkook and Shakira have performed there after Post.

Stole my look but not my mosquito voice!

R112 Post Malone is hella famous. And hella talented. He is like the love child of Bubba Sparkxx, Eminem, and Johnny Cash.

r114, walking into the party after everyone's gone home.

He seems too young for the "grizzled" Tom Waits persona.

His music changes a lot. I like his album "Austin"

He's kinda ugly, but I would like to see him naked.

also, he's lost a ton of weight

I prefer his brother, Pre Malone.

He looks smelly

Totally nice to his fans in the clip at R119

OP - Just how old are you? You must be pretty fucking old or live in the Ozarks if you’ve never heard of Post Malone. This forum is full of old farts who love shitting all over anything past the 80’s. I still support this forum because it’s for the community but it gets so annoying.

[quote] Holy shit, is anyone in this thread under 80 years old? He's on my Spotify queue. Have you heard of Spotify, OP? The internet, perhaps?

I'm in my mid-thirties and have barely heard of him. It doesn't mean he should be revered just because he's on your Spotify. Your shitty taste in music is not our fault. R15 We don't need to know how old you are to guess that your maturity level and IQ is in the toilet. We have this idiotic comment from you for confirmation. R123 this also applies to you. Post Malone is no Elton John. Get the fuck over yourself.

Does he bathe regularly? He looks like he doesn’t.

Hmm.