Jon Bellion Essentials
Playlist - 18 Songs
“Wu-Tang raised me, but Death Cab changed me,” Jon Bellion sang on his first mixtape in 2011, summing up his influences in one rhyme. The Long Island native grew up absorbing hip-hop, emo, pop, and electronic, and his own music reflects that upbringing. He cowrote Eminem and Rihanna’s “The Monster,” then sang on Zedd’s “Beautiful Now,” but it was his debut album, 2016’s The Human Condition, that cemented his triple-threat status as a singer, songwriter, and producer. That record’s mix of styles found its perfect balance in songs like “All Time Low,” with its Ben Gibbard-influenced falsetto, skeletal boom-bap beat, and post-EDM synths (not to mention the emo-referencing title). On 2018’s Glory Sound Prep and subsequent singles, Bellion has kept polishing his singular sound, zigzagging between effortlessly unconventional beats (“Crop Circles”), fission-powered epics (“Good Things Fall Apart”), and acoustic versions stripped down to the artist’s inimitable voice and unerring melodies.
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Jon Bellion Essentials features Jon Bellion, Zedd, ILLENIUM and more