★★

1. I Need a Dollar: 👍🏻
2. Green Lights: 👎🏻
3. Hey Brother: 👍🏻
4. Miss Fortune: 🤷‍♂️
5. Life So Hard: 👎🏻
6. Take Me Back: 🤷‍♂️
7. Femme Fatale: 🤷‍♂️
8. Loving You Is Killing Me: 🤷‍♂️
9. Good Things: 👎🏻
10. You Make Me Smile: 🤷‍♂️
11. If I: 👎🏻
12. Mama Hold My Hand: 👎🏻
13. Politician (Reprise): 🤷‍♂️

I have loved I Need a Dollar ever since the first time I heard it when watching How to Make it in America. Given how much Soul I’ve listened to so far this year, and how much I love that song, I think I should like this album a lot more than I actually do. I can’t really put my finger on what it is I don’t like about Good Things, but it just seems like less than the sum of its parts. I’ve heard it several times before, and didn’t care for it that much. But my brother recommended I listen to it for the project, and I hoped I’d find something more to appreciate about it this time around. Because I want to like this album. I just don’t.