Opinion | Why Post Malone is the perfect pop star for Donald Trump’s America
- Malone, who is white, pumps out a pale imitation of African-American music – ignorant, dull, brainless and fake
- Qualities that should have killed his career only made him bigger
The most popular young artist in the unpopular nation that is the United States is a rhinestone cowboy who looks like he crawled out of a primordial swamp of nacho cheese.
Post Malone is a Halloween rental, a removable platinum grill. His music – one of the shallowest bastardisations of rap to date – has the creative tension of associates at a downtown law firm complaining that US$150,000 a year just does not cut it.
He looks like he got clubbed over the head by a cartoon peacock. He just turned 23.
And America just cannot get enough. Nielsen recently named the suburban-Dallas-raised rapper 2018’s most popular musician. So it was only a matter of time before Malone had his own music festival, a contemporary rite of passage for nearly every major pop-rap star.
The inaugural Posty Fest was held on Sunday night in Dallas’ Dos Equis Pavilion on a few acres of corporate-branded concrete. Many festivals pride themselves on offering non-music diversions such as art installations or novel culinary options. There was none of that here, but there were US$5 Jell-O shots.
