‘Right About You’ by Post Malone - Lyrics & Meaning

There are only three solo tracks on Post Malone's star-studded 2024 country album, F-1Trillion, and each of the trio find the ‘Chemical’ hitmaker at his most vulnerable. ‘Right About You’ is a heartwarming, rose-tinted love song, seemingly written for his fiancée - who fans refer to as ‘Jamie’, due to her identity being kept private - and marks the first of its kind in Post Malone's sprawling discography.

Following the album's wistful references to the wild nights and untethered hedonism associated with Posty's party-loving rap persona, ‘Right About You’ arrives towards the end of F-1Trillion, and consolidates the artist's evolution into more of a settled-down family man. This lovestruck offering sets the tone ahead of the sweet and deeply personal ode to his daughter, ‘Yours’, which rounds off the album.

Kicking off with a playful, jovial fiddle and a jaunty, warm guitar rhythm, Post Malone removes the hazy, reverb-laden vocal effects he's become synonymous with over the years. This makes him sound as lucid as we've ever heard him, perhaps symbolising the clarity his fiancée and daughter have brought into his life.

The ambience is kept relatively acoustic, with ‘Right About You’ taking on the feel of a classic campfire sing-a-long, and certainly leans more towards traditional country than the pop-leaning lead singles, such as ’I Had Some Help’ and ’Guy For That’.

“Would you still love me if we were down bad and out of home

I made all my money singing so sad and lonely songs

But all my diamonds came from dirt, the more I love you the less I hurt

Now my pen can't find the words”

Post Malone begins by asking his fiancée if she'd still love him in the same way if he didn't have the money he's accumulated from his music career. He endearingly admits he's worried he's not going to be able to write as many hits anymore, because his muses have always been negative habits and emotions such as loneliness and sadness - but now he has her, he doesn't experience these anymore.

He stresses that all his Diamond records - with Post Malone having more RIAA Diamond songs than any other artist in history, as well as the only track to have ever been certified double-Diamond, ’Sunflower’ - came from ‘dirt’, again referencing the forlorn, heartbroken themes he would previously look to weave into his work.

“I wrote songs about sinning, evil women, pills and cars

I wrote songs about drinking ‘til you walked in and raised the bar

But who am I to write rock bottom from the highs you took me to

Thank God, I was right about you”

Throughout the hook, Post Malone looks back at some of the nihilistic topics he covered during his rap and pop records, with his brooding, chart-topping hit, ‘rockstar’, tackling virtually every theme he mentions in the first line of the ‘Right About You’ chorus.

We then get some satisfying wordplay ,as Posty recalls how he'd love writing songs about drinking until his fiancée ‘raised the bar’ - conveying how she lifted his lifestyle standards, as well as carrying the double-meaning of a ‘bar’ that you get drunk in.

Then, we get the pièce de résistance, with Post Malone wondering aloud how he could possibly ‘write’ songs about feeling down, when his fiancée causes him to be so elated and euphoric, before delivering the titular line, which contains the homophone, ‘right’. He thanks God that he was ‘right’ about getting into a relationship with his fiancée, despite now not being able to ‘write’ about what he used to. The charming, underlying irony of this is that Post Malone is admitting his fears about his songwriting in a beautiful song he's written for his fiancée.

“You could say you hate me, as long as you don't mean it

Maybe go half-crazy, don't need a rhyme or reason

Girl, you can go pick a fight, slam that door and lock me outside

Just for one night so I can find a brand new melody”

The New York native highlights his devotion by giving his fiancée free reign to say she hates him and to go ‘half-crazy’, because he'll still love her regardless. The use of the word ‘rhyme’ in the phrase ‘rhyme or reason’ definitely feels pointed, as it ties neatly in with the overarching theme of songwriting. Post Malone goes on to jokingly invite his fiancée to kick him out of the house for a night, to see if this will give him some heartbroken material that he can use to fuel new music.

“I could change up all the chords

Get my fingers flowing free

But as long as you're with me

I can have my harmony”

The ‘Pour Me a Drink’ singer-songwriter doubles-down on the songwriting-inspired imagery here, as he confesses that he would have much more freedom in the writing room if he wasn't in love. However, he'd rather continue to enjoy this non-musical kind of harmony - i.e. peace and contentment - that he feels with his fiancée.

During an interview with Anthony Mason for CBS, Post Malone touched on the impact of the birth of his daughter, as well as paying tribute to his fiancée, “It changes your life in the best way ever, and the most beautiful thing is she has a beautiful mom...”

He proceeded to credit both his daughter and fiancée for rescuing him from his ‘spiralling’ lifestyle. When asked by Mason if his daughter saved his life, Posty responded, “Yeah, that's true - her and her mom...Four years ago, I was on a rough path...[I was wrestling] with everything, it was terrible...[I was troubled by] loneliness”.

“Would you still love me if we were down bad and out of home

I made all my money singing so sad and lonely songs

But all my diamonds came from dirt, the more I love you the less I hurt

Now my pen can't find the words

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I wrote songs about sinning, evil women, pills and cars

I wrote songs about drinking ‘til you walked in and raised the bar

But who am I to write rock bottom from the highs you took me to

Thank God, I was right about you

-

You could say you hate me, as long as you don't mean it

Maybe go half-crazy, don't need a rhyme or reason

Girl, you can go pick a fight, slam that door and lock me outside

Just for one night so I can find a brand new melody

-

I wrote songs about sinning, evil women, pills and cars

I wrote songs about drinking ‘til you walked in and raised the bar

But who am I to write rock bottom from the highs you took me to

Thank God, I was right about you

-

I could change up all the chords

Get my fingers flowing free

But as long as you're with me

I can have my harmony

-

I wrote songs about sinning, evil women, pills and cars

I wrote songs about drinking ‘til you walked in and raised the bar

But who am I to write rock bottom from the highs you took me to

Thank God, I was right about you

Thank God, I was right about you”

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