Post Malone, Mourning | Track Review 🎵

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**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.