![]() A British native, Adès is one of the leading transatlantic composers of his generation the Met presented his first grand opera, “ The Tempest,” in 2012. Since I’m eagerly looking forward to going to the Metropolitan Opera to hear “ The Exterminating Angel”-which is already a smash hit-this week, I’ve been boning up on my Thomas Adès. He has to get his biology degree first.- John Seabrook But for the beat-maker, at least, success is about “longevity,” as he says in the video, and “what you do next,” not just “one and done–never that.” Tank God won’t likely be living like a rock star any time soon. Thanks to the enormous success of the song, Tank God and Post Malone might even have the chance to find out what feeling like a rock star is really like. “Rockstar” grafts Post’s plaintive, vaguely Hank Williams-style delivery onto hip-hop rootstock in way that transcends traditional musical genres, and perhaps even suggests a future for pop music in which collaboration, rather than appropriation, is the norm. Nothing about the sombre mood of the track suggests joy or ecstasy, leading this wishfully thinking parent to suggest to his eighteen-year-old son that the song is actually a cautionary tale about rock-star life. Inspired, Post immediately spat out the song’s hook, “I feel just like a rock star.” They met by chance, in a studio in New York, and Tank played Post the track, which creeps along at eighty beats per minute, through a dark valley of 808s, its sonic pathway studded with kicks and snares and canopied with high hats. According to a video on Genius, the John and Paul of “ Rockstar” are the song’s lyricist, the twenty-three-year-old Post Malone, née Austin Richard Post and the song’s beat maker, Tank God, a biology major at the University of Hartford, in Connecticut. With the Internet, it became guitar-tab sites, behind-the-scenes videos, and self-appointed annotators, now partly organized by the Web site Genius, which is where I wound up not long ago, seeking the dope on “ Rockstar,” by Post Malone. ![]() Since then, it has been a lifetime of liner notes, fanzines, and guitar mags. That was what knowledge meant to me, early on, and it propelled my pseudo-scholarly interest in pop music. After my sister Lizanne gave me “ Rubber Soul,” my first album, in 1965, when I was six, I spent the rest of my childhood trying to differentiate between the John, Paul, and George songs. If you believe that any review contained on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email us.When I hear a song I like, I want to know not only who made it but also its origin story.
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