Mike Posner Releases Album After Five Years
On February 21st, multi-platinum singer-songwriter and producer Mike Posner came out with his new album “The Beginning.” This is his first release of any type of music in about five years.
The reason for the hiatus was because he was going through a lot of grief and pain in his life. His father had passed away and he was struggling within himself. He fought to get out of that funk by walking across America to help himself find out what was wrong.
Now, he returns to music and has brought a different type of energy to his first project. “..I speak to you from a different place,” Mike Posner tells his listeners in his intro to the album titled February 9, 2025. “A place of joy and faith and love.”
With the project being named “The Beginning”, he had the vision of starting over. The entire album is drenched with positive messages and motivating words coated behind fun and uplifting beats that the mainstream ear isn’t used to do.
The song Swipe Right Girls is based around the idea of Posner not giving into dating apps and women who make them their priority way of dating. He says in the song “but this song’s not about you,” to reference how those woman always feel everything is about them, so he takes the power back by reminding them as well as all of his listeners that it just isn’t the case in reality. It’s a simple part of the lyrics that has a higher meaning than its words.
A favorited track through the first few days of the album being out would be Time to Make A Change. The song is strictly about him feeling guilty for not being the best person to someone he really cared about. Though the relationship looks to be unrepairable, Posner tells his listeners to keep moving forward and to not make the same mistake again down the road. It was time to make a change.
“Sometimes life can feel like torture
or you’re on a rollercoaster
but you gotta keep moving forward
don’t look back
don’t look back.”
Time To Make A Change by Mike Posner
Mike Posner really left it all out in this album as he shows his newfound self to his audience in the most endearing way. “The Beginning” is easy to understand and hard to misinterpret, which makes it great for all ages to listen to. This project has the potential to reach a lot of listeners as the year goes on.