5 Seconds Of Summer Cover Post Malone, Compare Post Malone To The Beatles

Post Malone's 2018 album, Beerbongs & Bentleys, is an outlier in more some ways. Its physical version reflects a third-tier nü-metal CD I would've noticed (and likely bought) in a Media Play bargain bin in 2002 and definitely follows the Yeezus blueprint diligently.


Yet more than that, Beerbongs & Bentleys transcends genre, with Post's silky croon bleeding over a cloudy mesh of near-R&B, trap beats, and — on album standout "Stay" — weepy folk-pop acoustic guitars. Some might liken it to The Beatles, and case in point, some have: namely, 5 Seconds of Summer's Ashton Irwin, who shouted out the song on Twitter immediately after his musical group covered it for a recent Spotify session.


Mainly sung by both Luke Hemmings and Michael Clifford, 5SOS's "Stay" retains the ache of Post's original, adding a number of extra guitar flourishes for effect. It fits nicely in the realm of their work on recent release Youngblood, which saw 5SOS leap from stadium-shouting pop-punk into the more mature, intimate realm of glossy full pop.


For the same session, they also got involved with a rainy-morning, guitar-and-vox version of Youngblood ballad "Lie to Me." It's nice practice for their upcoming world tour, which kicks off on Thursday (August 2) in Japan and continues on through November.


Check out 5SOS's "Stay" cover and their new rendition of "Lie to Me" below.