Love and death have always been concurrent forces, running parallel to each other across literature and the human experience. By comparing love to Armageddon, is Post Malone arguing that the end times are nigh? Is he referring to climate change, or the onslaught of artificial intelligence, or something more internal and universally distributed? The term also broadly refers to the end of the world in any form. In the Book of Revelations, the word Armageddon refers to the apocryphal location of a massive battle that occurs during the end times. In "Over Now," Post Malone draws a parallel between violence and love, two kindred forces that have the potential to obliterate human beings, totally altering the courses of physical and mental realities, sometimes creating or ending life, and resonating for a long time after the fallout. "When she's comin' for my heart, it feels like Armageddon" Post Malone - Feeling Whitney (Lyrics) 4. Or maybe Post Malone just needs a new dealer. Perhaps Utah is a symbol for an Edenic transcendence or a world beyond material desires. But perhaps there's more: Perhaps Post Malone is expressing hope that someday he'll undergo a Kanye West-style religious awakening, that he'll get clean and join a church, that he'll kick his selfishness and his drug habits and that he'll find the pure faith and love that he's always been brushing up against in his music but running from in his real life. The song is also about addiction and the emptiness of not being able to find one's fix because even all your dealers have left you. Post also manages to work in critiques of toxic masculinity while coming clean about how difficult it is to subvert these archetypes of masculinity and the need to compete to achieve them.
"Whitney" is a poignant song about depression and wasting away in one's bedroom, one that Hamlet might've sung had he lived to express his angst today. One could (whether one should is another topic entirely) write an entire book about "Feeling Whitney," but this line in particular offers a window into the depth and breadth of Post Malone's body of references. "It seems like every plug ran east to Utah, became Mormons"
Though we perform "stunts" like gender, class, or whatever the corporations have decided we must be, Post Malone knows that all the crowds in the world can't fill the empty keg in his heart. We cling to each other in the darkness, like ships beating against the current, knowing our own selves only because others have lent us the faint glow of recognition and connection.
Like so many of Posty's messages, this lyric proves that we are nothing, in the end, without compassion for each other. In an effort to determine the source of Post Malone's ability to lull the howling wolves in my heart as effortlessly as Orpheus soothed the dragon of Colchis during the hunt for the Golden Fleece, I've decided to conduct an in-depth excavation of his lyrics. But why? Is it his quivery vibrato, or the starry reverb-drenched tropicana-hip-hop that backs it, or something more? There's a ragged edge to his music that corresponds well with the frayed edges of my soul, and Post Malone has provided refuge from many a storm. In all honesty, I find Post Malone extremely peaceful. Sadly, very few people read books anymore, so I've decided to apply my degree to something I love but that also may meet the masses on their terms: the exquisitely poetic lyrics of the one and only Post Malone.
Post Malone is the poet laureate of all beer-drunken hearts, and his astute observations on life, love, and intoxication deserve to be taken far too seriously.Īs a freshly graduated English major who just moved to Brooklyn, I feel that it's my personal responsibility to share my philosophical musings with the world.
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