Post Malone "Hollywood's Bleeding" Live Listen Song By Song Gut Reaction Grade

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1. Hollywood’s Bleeding: A+.

2. Saint-Tropez: A.

3. Enemies ft. DaBaby: B.

4. Allergic: C-.  Respect the switch-up but not my style.

5. A Thousand Bad Times: C-

6. Circles: C-. F the first time I heard it. Growing on me.

7. Die For Me ft. Future & Halsey: A+.

8. On The Road ft. Meek and Lil Baby: A+++.

9. Take What You Want ft. Ozzy Osbourne (!!) and Travis Scott: A+.  The amount of drugs that were in this room when it was recorded…my goodness.

10. Im Gonna Be: A-.

11. Staring At The Sun ft. SZA: B.

12. Sunflower: N/A. I hate when they put soundtrack songs on their personal albums. (100% a label decision not a Post decision.)  This is a Spider Man song.  Completely separate from this project.  Yeah it’s a chill song on the summer playlists.  It doesn’t fit on here.

13. Internet: B+.  Would have been an A if I didn’t have a leak of “Fuck The Internet” by Post Malone featuring Kanye West in my iTunes for the past 5 months thanks to Jetski.  Big disappointment he didn’t end up on the final version.

14. Goodbyes feat. Young Thug: C-.  This was also on the Jetski leak list.  Didn’t like it the first time I heard it and not much has changed.  Collab with so much potential ended up feeling like a mailed-in generic algorithm track.  Probably a C+ song but lost points for breaking my heart with disappointment.

15. Myself: B-.  Got distracted by a Twitter bully for this one so I broke the rules and re-listened.  Just meh.

16. I Know: B.

17. Wow. A-.  Learned all the words to this one when it came out.  Rap it in the shower.  Such a bop.  Needed another minute on it or at least another verse. Felt like an unfinished track.  But a bop.

FINAL FIRST LIVE LISTEN GUT REACTION GRADE:  B+/A-.  89/100.  8.2 and Best New Music on the Pitchfork Scale (they’re going to give this a 4.1, watch. They hate fun.  If more than 45 people outside of a garage in Williamsburg or Wicker Park have heard of the artist or if you’re not named “Radiohead” it’s an automatic <5.0.)

Big statement made by Posty.