After attending Dartmouth College and Oxford University, he began a career in advertising. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. Post’s music is as bland and frothy as the Bud Light he’s sponsored by: harmlessly enjoyable, undemanding, and passive enough to explain his heavyweight streaming numbers – a sound that blends into any background and fits any playlist.Dr. While he’s unlikely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his lyrics – generic lines about heartbreak, drugs, and fame – he has an undeniable gift for hooks, and his set contained plenty of hits: the bass shudder of Wow and Better Now, the 1990s jangle of Circles, Sunflower (the single he penned for the 2018 Spider-Man film), and 2017 chart-topper Rockstar, during which he smashed the aforementioned acoustic guitar and handed pieces of it to the crowd.īut not even that act of casual violence could prevent the show from slipping into sameness. Appearing on stage in a Sex Pistols T-shirt, he announced, “I came to play some sh-y songs”, tongue firmly in cheek. Otherwise, Post performed to backing tracks, no live instrumentation in sight. The only remotely Dylan-ish moment during Post’s Thursday night show at London’s O2 Arena came halfway through the set, when he performed two songs on an acoustic guitar, cigarette in hand: Stay, from his hugely popular 2018 album beerbongs & bentleys, and Lemon Tree, from latest album Twelve Carat Toothache, named for the diamond incisors he obtained in celebration of his recent diamond-certified status. Now he enjoys the Grammy nominations and supreme wealth of the Top 40 establishment, makes pop songs veneered with elements of hip-hop, country, and autotuned r’n’b – and has Bob Dylan’s face tattooed on his left arm. By 2018 the Texan – real name Austin Richard Post – had become a viral superstar, despite accusations of cultural appropriation and claims that his parents “paid his way” into the music business. A pop star in cornrowed, gold-toothed rap clothing, Post Malone first emerged in 2015, described by a record label executive as “the Donald Trump of hip-hop” because “things that should’ve killed his career have only made him bigger”.

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