![]() ![]() Poor Posty also has to deal with the public glare. It’s hard to punch up when you’ve sold out Madison Square Garden. He’s portrayed as fighting the impression that he’s a lightweight and not the youngest artist to have three diamond-certified singles or to have broken the record for most simultaneous top 20 Hot 100 Billboard hits. There’s a defensiveness to Malone and his team that’s laughably unfounded. That brings up the mood of the documentary, which is sort of a grievance tour. He’s real,” says Cheryl Paglierani, his agent. Then there are the voices of Malone’s own entourage, including weirdly his bus driver, who are, after all, paid to be excited to be on tour with him. “That was awesome,” the Green Day songwriter says, not entirely convincingly. The non-Posty interviews consist of superstar guests who stop by backstage - Alicia Keys and Timbaland, among them, and a truly uncomfortable-looking Billie Joe Armstrong. “It just has a certain vibe and a certain feeling to it that’s rare to come by,” says songwriter Billy Walsh. How is Malone able to create such hits like “Sunflower”? Don’t look here. “The songs, I guess, are what they are and I am who I am.” The filmmakers seem happier returning to shots of hysterical fans and seem a little too enamored of the tour’s pyrotechnics. ![]() “It’s either you’re with it or you ain’t,” he says. ![]() There are few moments in the film that show our hero not cradling a cigarette or a Solo cup, a tortured genius who seems perennially tipsy, screaming out his lyrics in a sort of existential crouch onstage and getting angry about beer pong rule violations after shows. It both humanizes Posty but also makes him look like an overage bro holding onto childish things. “Post Malone: Runaway” is in many ways like an hourlong music video, with some 10 songs - “Take What You Want,” “Wow” and “Rockstar,” among them - captured with shaky, distorted camera angles, interspliced with backstage glad-handing and tons of beer pong. The filmmakers - director Hector Dockrill and writers Sam Bridger and Casey Engelhardt - got backstage access without doing anything meaningful with it, ending up more like hype men than independent observers. arena tour in 2019 - a 37-date tour through North America with stops in Los Angeles, Dallas and New York, among others. The documentary captures Post Malone’s first U.S. ![]()
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