#fantano

Fantano was interviewed today by Variety. This prick is getting more clout for Halsey attacking him on X then his new interview with Olivia Rodrigo. This is some of what he said to Variety.

“We’re talking about a two-year-old review here where I’ve remained mostly silent on the reception of the review, despite the fact that Halsey and her fans, for the duration of that time, have pushed the narrative that I disliked the album — or said in my assessment of the album that there was a ‘self-centeredness’ about it — because she was sick,” he offers to Variety. “That I specifically attacked this album and tore it apart because there’s some cartoonishly evil characteristic about me that somehow just singled this album out because of who she is or the illness that she suffered during that time in her life that inspired the record, which couldn’t be further from the truth.”

"The Great Impersonator” had nothing to do with the real-life pain and suffering Halsey endured, but “everything to do with how bad I feel her various takes on inspirations that she tries to pull from and impersonate are, and how weak the songwriting is.”

“I don’t think I’m singularly alone in having found some early-2010s internet-edgy humor funny, or in a satirical way reviewing some memes on the internet as a joke,” he explains, adding, “I’ve never said anything as edgy as an accidental 9/11 joke at Pitchfork’s expense, which [Halsey] very notably did.”

“I don’t have to prove my track record to Halsey,” he maintains. “I have been the most relevant and impactful music critic of my — and any — generation for over 10 years now. You can’t really debate that. There’s no music critic bigger than me who’s had more impact than me for as long as I have, consistently. And if I die tomorrow, nobody’s going to outdo that run.”

This brilliant comment was left under Fantano's video review of Fiona Apple's album Fetch The Bolt Cutters. Thanks @dandylion-s 👏

New video that Fantano released this week. Halsey needs to order a restraining order. He's obsessed with her.

Number three for all the dead melt down as rain. He didn’t dig IL as it wasn’t his taste and I found that a quite respectful move to not negatively review something that isn’t his style. At the same time all the dead was mostly me writing and producing with a bit of help on the side and was far less painful to make (ironically, given it’s about POTS and chronic illness). Plus all the dead is kinda a more authentic/honest record, even if I prefer IL when it comes to listening. I did all the dead quickly and intuitively and turns out I think it’s the right way to make music for me.

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Two dumbasses fighting on Twitter over this piece of shit album.