“But it can’t be an actual guitar because it’s 2017.” “I wanted to add a long outro with a guitar,” co-producer Louis Bell told Billboard shortly after the single’s release. Both artists sound eerily calm for claims of such revelry, letting the spitting beat and waves of distortion raise the energy level around them.
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Over a twinkling trap production that sounds like the sun setting, Post details living up to the titular lifestyle by risking arrest on stage and throwing a TV out of his hotel room, all built around his chorus hook, “I’ve been f–king h–s and popping pillies, man, I feel just like a rock star.” Guest rapper 21 Savage doubles down with boasts of “f–king superstars” and making the “Hot Chart,” while imitating Post’s sing-song delivery. And with “Rockstar” - a hedonistic turn-up anthem whose actual sound is highly melodic, unthreatening, even kind of sedate - he found the perfect anthem for a generation who might not have even known the difference between The Doors and AC/DC. It wasn’t quite rap, and it definitely wasn’t rock, but it electrified young listeners from both worlds.
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With the rise of EDM and hip-hop in the age of streaming, guitars had largely been reduced to a seasoning in popular music, and most of the biggest acts that still operated from a rock home base - Imagine Dragons, Twenty One Pilots, Panic! At the Disco - had decentralized the instrument or removed it entirely, in favor of heavy beats and dense soundscapes.īut the artist born Austin Richard Post backdoored his way into a 2010s version of rock stardom, via a series of contagious trap-pop singles, with soupy production, knockout choruses, and Post’s one-of-a-kind warble. By the time Post Malone broke out as a rapper in the mid-’10s, conventional rock stardom had all but been left for dead.
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