{"id":483642,"date":"2019-03-20T08:19:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=810598"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:19:45","slug":"post-malone-releases-new-video-for-wow-his-latest-inescapable-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/post-malone-releases-new-video-for-wow-his-latest-inescapable-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Malone Releases New Video for \u2018Wow,\u2019 His Latest Inescapable Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/post-malone-wow-video-2019.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/post-malone-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-this-american-moment-thats-not-a-compliment\/2018\/10\/30\/ad6112b8-dbc4-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?utm_term=.0a3d14c4e3f7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">critical consensus<\/a> is still firmly against the Dallas superstar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/post-malone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_post-malone\" data-tag=\"post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a> is likely one of the three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/post-malone-inevitable-780940\/\">most popular musicians<\/a> in America at this instant. Just look at \u201cWow.\u201d \u2014 a loose single, unmoored from any sort of full-length project, yet currently sitting at Number Five on the Billboard Hot 100 three months after its release and, crucially, without a video.<\/p>\n<p>The song \u2014 which also recently received an unexpected jolt from Roddy Ricch on its remix \u2014 will likely only rise from its current lofty position. On Wednesday, Post Malone released the video for the track, which begins by quoting Charles Buxton (according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Buxton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, a British brewer, politician and writer who lived in the nineteenth century): \u201cYou will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.\u201d From there, it launches into a behind-the-scenes look at Post Malone\u2019s life (it features travel, shooting other music videos, rehearsing for performances and beer pong).<\/p>\n<p>About halfway through the video, Post cedes the spotlight to a man named Mike Alancourt, who garnered some attention (and <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5554424\/ellen-post-malone-surprise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an appearance on&nbsp;<em>Ellen<\/em><\/a>) after <a href=\"https:\/\/l.instagram.com\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FBuj5inbhBuZ%2F%3Futm_source%3Dig_embed&amp;e=ATPcDeSt54RYP823bbtv7pFtQ3JjUqr-nt60cx60jaMugjUHIo6mpoM9jp7LFCtJI4li1JLh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">going viral on Instagram<\/a> for dancing to \u201cWow.\u201d To someone not steeped in knowledge of Post Malone\u2019s greater lore, it\u2019s a deeply confusing digression.<\/p>\n<p>But, as Charles Buxton once reportedly said, \u201cExperience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/post-malone-wow-video-810598\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While critical consensus is still firmly against the Dallas superstar, Post Malone is likely one of the three most popular musicians in America at this instant. Just look at \u201cWow.\u201d \u2014 a loose single, unmoored from any sort of full-length project, yet currently sitting at Number Five on the Billboard Hot 100 three months after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 17:13:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}