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Post Malone’s highly-anticipated country music tour begins in Utah — the place he calls home
By Lottie Elizabeth Johnson,
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While speculation about Post Malone ’s foray into the country music scene has been rampant for at least a year , his arrival there isn’t all that surprising to those who have worked closely with him.
“I used to say to people, he’s a reverse Taylor Swift: He’s going to start as a rapper, become a huge pop star and after all that, he’s going to be a country artist,” Charlie Handsome, who helped produce all of the songs on Malone’s new album, told The New York Times . “He knows every country song. You can pick a random Hank Williams Sr. song from 1954 and he’s going to know all the lyrics for some reason.”
Now, almost a month after releasing “F-1 Trillion,” his debut country album, Malone is formally introducing his country side to fans across the U.S. in a highly-anticipated tour that starts Sunday night in West Valley City, Utah.
The artist has long expressed a love for country music and his desire to break into the genre.
“To be honest, there’s nothing stopping me from taking a camera or setting up in my studio in Utah and just recording a country album,” he said in a 2022 interview on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show,” per People .
On Aug. 14, Malone made his Grand Ole Opry debut in Nashville, with an introduction from country legend Brad Paisley. Two days later, “F-1 Trillion,” with its slew of high-profile collaborations — including Paisley, Dolly Parton , Tim McGraw, Chris Stapleton, Blake Shelton, Lainey Wilson and Jelly Roll , per The New York Times — released and made a dent in country music.
The album broke Spotify’s single-day country streaming record with nearly 14 million streams, according to a news release shared with the Deseret News.
Throughout his career, Malone has explored a number of styles, including rap, pop and hip-hop. It’s a versatility that has helped him in collaborating with so many artists.
“Genres suck,” he recently told The New York Times . “It’s easier to catalog music that way. But at a certain point — and the cool thing is that it’s moving towards this — why can’t you mix all this together and make something that’s truly unique to you?”
Now, Malone is taking his own brand of music out on the road. And he’s starting in one of the places he calls home.
Post Malone calls Utah home
Post Malone really loves living in Utah. Last year, he appeared in a video and called Cottonwood Heights, the city where he resides, “the most amazing place ever,” the Deseret News reported.
He has previously called Utah an “ oasis ” away from Hollywood — “Being in Utah and being away from the grind and from everybody else and it’s just me with my video games and cold one, that feels good to me,” he told Variety in 2019.
In a cover story for Billboard magazine in 2022, Malone said “there are very few distractions” in Utah and that living in the state helps him envision a life outside of music one day.
So it’s fitting that Malone’s tour starts with a two-night stint at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre in West Valley City. It’s one of just three cities on his tour that gets two nights, according to the tour schedule on his website .
The tour extends through the end of October, and concludes in Austin, Texas.
He is nowhere near fucking country. Go back to whatever music you were doing. you're no good at it or you wouldn't be trying to get into country music.
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