Album Review: Hollywood’s Bleeding

On September 6, Post Malone released his third album, Hollywood’s Bleeding. The album consists of some previously-released favorites such as Goodbyes, Sunflower, and Wow. Some of the top trending songs are Hollywood’s Bleeding, Circles, Die For Me, and Take What You Want.

In the Top 100 Billboard Chart, Circles and Goodbyes have been on the top 5 for the past month, Goodbyes being third and Circles being fourth. On genius.com, Hollywood’s Bleeding was the number one album for a whole week. Post Malone has also been the number one artist in the Artist 100 Chart on Billboard for over 3 weeks.

In an interview hosted by Apple Music, he commented however since his album, Stoney, became a hit, his career as a singer and a songwriter has reached unprecedented limits. His second album, beerbongs&bentleys, extended that experience and helped him reach out to more singers and songwriters that helped him create his newest album.

“Honestly, the whole thing is such a blur, because these couple years have felt like two weeks. It’s wild.”

Post Malone also stated how he just wanted to create music that he loved and give messages about his life. He also said that that he wanted to create new music, due to the new style that every other songwriter is using.

“I’m not trying to make anything massive…I’m just trying to something that I love, and I know that everything in music is shifting.”

Ellie C., a junior, finds that Hollywood’s Bleeding is different from his other albums. “I think that in this album, he wasn’t focused on writing songs that he wanted to be number one.” She added that he was more focused on writing songs about himself.

Personally, I find Post’s Malone’s new album more creative than his other albums. Even though Stoney is what got him viral, I find songs in the album such as Circles, Enemies, and Staring at the Sun to be “one-of-a-kind” songs in his whole collection.