“That’s one thing they have in common”: Tom Morello compares the writing styles of Chris Cornell and Post Malone
Tom Morello has drawn parallels between the songwriting styles of Post Malone and his late Audioslave bandmate Chris Cornell.
Appearing on a recent episode of The Eddie Trunk Podcast, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist shares how both musicians have a knack for crafting catchy melodies that resonate with their audience.
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“When we would write songs with Chris, we sort of threw music at him — whether it was a simple chord progression like I Am the Highway or a more complicated heavy riff – and he would just come up instantaneously with a bunch of great melodies,” Morello recalls. “We’d put those down, and then he would write words to whatever.”
“And that’s exactly how Post Malone does it. Excellent melody – hit, hooky, beautiful, terrifying melody one after another. And that’s one thing they have in common.”
Elsewhere in the chat, Morello also reveals that he has been working on a collaboration with Post Malone for several years.
“We wrote a song together that, to my ears, sounds like what Beat It was to Michael Jackson. It is a banger. It is an absolutely awesome rock song,” he says, adding that the session took place “over five or six years ago”.
Morello also humorously notes the challenges of coordinating schedules with the busy rapper: “I can’t get him to finish it… He’s a busy dude and he’s busy on some stadium tour right now, but we have a really great song together,” he says.
In other news, Tom Morello recently hit out at fans of the RATM whom he claims have “zero understanding” of the band’s music.
“Never ceases to amaze me how many folks who’ve heard RATM are in Paul Ryan mode, having literally zero understanding of anything that band was about and even less understanding where any of us might stand on contemporary issues,” the guitarist wrote X/Twitter.
Morello continued: “Recently I was talking to a couple at a restaurant who were big fans of Killing In The Name. The nice lady said, ‘I love that song. It helped me rage against my parents and later against the jab!’ I said, ‘Ma’am that song is about racist cops who often behave like the Ku Klux Klan in service of historical white supremacy and are boot licking lackeys and thugs of the racist capitalist ruling class.’ She sat there chewing and blinking, chewing and blinking.”
Never ceases to amaze me how many folks who’ve heard RATM are in Paul Ryan mode, having literally ZERO understanding of anything that band was about and even less understanding where any of us might stand on contemporary issues. Recently was talking to a couple at a restaurant…
— Tom Morello (@tmorello) November 3, 2024
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