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There are a couple of more upbeat numbers - especially “I Like You,” a very sprightly, downright Bieber-esque collaboration with Doja Cat - that do establish something that brings Malone at least temporary satisfaction: stealing someone else’s woman. But Posty is crafty enough to make sure the album doesn’t always sound as crashed-out and downcast as it mostly is. That may seem ridiculous to ask, right after establishing the album’s bummed-out bona fides.
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Is “Twelve Carat Toothache” a good time, then?
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But any mood elevation didn’t send him back to the drawing board to retrofit his finished album with party songs. Well, he is in a better place now, according to an interview that just aired with Zane Lowe, where the singer indicated he’s no longer in the dark place he was when he wrote some of these tracks. Surely, someone thought, if enough time went by, his mood might brighten and he’d reconfigure the album with more bangers. Considering these bookends, and some of the depressed thoughts that comes in-between, you can start to imagine a reason why Malone’s label allegedly delayed putting the album out (at least according to complains made by his team on social media many months back). At the very end of the album, his anticlimax is a demo-version reprise of the “Euthanasia,” which expresses the hope for a painless, if not easy, death. “I was born, what a shame,” Malone sings in the opening track, “Reputation” - not the last time on the record he’ll pulls out what sounds like a Kurt Cobain throwaway line.