F-1 Trillion

I don’t have beef with Post Malone. I like some of his tracks, and he seems like a genuinely cool dude in the industry. I’m also not against him trying out a new genre—honestly, I thought he was running out of steam with his pop-rap and rock vibe, so switching things up could’ve been pretty dope. Kind of like when Beyoncé dipped into house and country or how Bring Me The Horizon mixed electro-pop with alt-metal.

But instead of getting a full album of Post Malone's fresh take on country, we ended up with him just jumping on tracks with other mainstream artists' bland and boring attempts at country.

There’s nothing special about this record when it comes to country music. The lyrics are mostly the same old clichés about drinking, fast cars, and hot girls, like they’re trying way too hard to fit into the country radio mold. An even bigger issue, in my opinion, is how the production clashes with what makes country, well, country. Normally, country music has this raw, acoustic vibe that feels authentic and powerful. But on “F-1 Trillion,” the production is so polished it almost feels robotic at times. The songs all kind of blend together, with similar structures and progressions, and even the features pop up at the same points in each track.

Even the three tracks where it’s just Post Malone don’t stand out—they just sound like more of the same. The spots where he could’ve really switched things up end up feeling just as forgettable as the rest of the album. And the fact that it’s 18 tracks long doesn’t help with how repetitive it gets.

POST MALONE - F-1 Trillion

RATING - 6/10

FAVORITE TRACK - N/A

GENRE - Country, Rock, Pop