Post Malone, Mourning | Track Review 🎵

On “Mourning,” the short but sweet second single from his fifth album, Austin, Post Malone is honest about his alcohol issues.

“Don’t wanna sober up / The sun is killin’ my buzz, that’s why they call it mourning.” Ah, clever 🎙 Post Malone – we see what you did there!  The singer (the best way to label him these days) drops the short but sweet second single from 💿 Austin (arriving July 28, 2023), 🎵 “Mourning”. “Mourning” follows the promo single, 🎵 “Chemical”, which was released in April 2023. Produced alongside 🎛 Louis Bell and ​watt, “Mourning” finds Post in reflective mode, bothered by, shit for lack of a better word (“Got a lotta shit to say, couldn’t fit it in the chorus”).

The shit that has affected Post Malone is substance issues – the alcohol.  Part of the problem seems to be those “quote-unquote friends” who enable him, with him footing the bill of dinner, and them dragging him “to a party out in Malibu.” Things get worse in the second verse, where he asserts, “Stumblin’ down the corridor, came across and open door / Throwin’ up is easy and who put on The Commodores.” A brilliant reference to the famed soul collective, it also speaks to Malone’s alcoholism.  Despite his substance issues, which are no joke, 🎵 “Mourning” is sweet music to the listener’s ears. This is an authentic, honest, and well written single.  Post Malone is being true to self.

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🎙 Post Malone • 💿 Austin • 🏷 Mercury / Republic • 🗓 5.19.23

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