The crossover is not dead: the Post Malone tour shows it

Already to see the videos of the fans under the stage you perceive a hug between apparently distant cultures: There are those who wear a cowboy hat and boots, those who are dressed in a large follow -up of the rap world and those with black rock or metal bands. Yes, because Post Malone, over time, has become a great blender of influences and genres. Started from the trap universe, passed by the flames of the rock, with A historic collaboration with the late Ozzy Osbourne in “Take What You Want”, and ended up embracing the guitar-voce songwriteralso breaking through the country door as shown by his latest album “F-1 Trillion”, released last year, today is impossible to label. Here, all these influences find a magical balance in the new Posty tour, the big name  Ass Tour, which is about to land in Europe and will arrive in Italy at the I-Days on 27 August at the Hippodrome of San Siro. Special guest Jelly Rollanother artist who started from the urban world and ended with the guitar in his hand.

The show that is carrying the Syracuse voice around the world has the band as its central pivot. And this already makes the direction of the live, very played and by the rock and roll attitude just like the performance of Austin Richard Post, this is the real name of Post Malone, who on stage sweats and is wagbal just like the frontman of an energetic formation. Whoever believes that in the lineup there will be only pieces of his latest country project is wrong: they will be able to listen to, among the many, “Better now”, “Wow”, the Hittona Dark and Urban “Rockstar”, “White Iiverson”, one of the first songs to make it famous, and “Congratulars”. These are songs that do not arise from a purely instrumental location, but which will be proposed with arrangements and sounds curated entirely by the band, supported, minimally, by some sequences and electronic parts. This to give homogeneity to the whole show.

For some time it has been thought that the crossover, so dear to the 90s, through which several artists expressed themselves by mixing more genres, was over, but in reality Post Malone is today in all respects a standard bearer. “Texas Tea”, “Pour Me a Drink”, “I Had Some Help”, “Losers” in duet with Jelly Roll will be the most songwriting and country quota of the livea genre on which Posty has invested a lot making itself wide in the communities in which this is not only music, but a true lifestyle. A turning point that may like it or not, but woe to think that this was a Ruffiano repositioning. Post Malone has always cultivated, since the first album “Stoney” of 2016, also an instrumental approach. Above all, the guitar is a symbolic element of its path, brought to the stage and played by the artist himself since the dawn as a representative instrument of his more intimate and acoustic side. The beautiful “Stay” of 2018 reminds us. The 2023 “Austin” album was the first real turning point: the project starts right from the guitar and comes to a band size, for this reason, for the first time in his career, to present that volume on tour, The artist was accompanied by a group of musiciansamong which the great Italian drummer Jacopo Volpe also entered. And what about his wonderful tribute to the Nirvana? If there is a name that today seems to escape the currents, it is precisely that of Post Malone.