Halsey Clapped Back With Kindness Over Low Scores By Pitchfork

[RAMROD 104,300]

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Pitchfork rated Halsey's latest album 4.8 out 10 on their review

[Poker 3,636]

So nice that she took the positive things. It's a good album after all and she's got to know why she released it. Then the public will take it as they want but that's out of her control.

[littlepotter 74,474]

The low score wasn't the issue, it was the making fun of her and saying she's a narcissist victim for talking about having cancer and fear of death

[Plastic Flower 3,745]

I'm glad she's handling it like this. Their review was almost insulting.

[Guest]

Having dealt with the things she did, I do not think I could take the high road after the things said in that review. Truly nasty.

[27monster27 11,255]

54 minutes ago, littlepotter said:

The low score wasn't the issue, it was the making fun of her and saying she's a narcissist victim for talking about having cancer and fear of death

This is precisely why I think critics are fully deserving of the stigmas they have against them.

[princessdiehigh 18]

Everyone’s been so nasty to her. The album is a beautiful piece of art and yet critics cannot help but question her character. Total hacks.

[Pablo 7,328]

Well last time she was negative toward pitchfork it didn't go very well. 

[angelduuh 319]

It's the best she can do. Pitchfork clearly has personal issues with her, which is totally unprofessional. If you're going to criticize her music at least be objective.

[RAMROD 104,300]

1 hour ago, Pablo said:

Well last time she was negative toward pitchfork it didn't go very well. 

[huttont 4,948]

I personally think music critics are a total joke. Art is subjective to the individual. So they are entitled to their opinion but I don’t understand why ppl give them such merit

[HIM820 1,759]

14 minutes ago, huttont said:

I personally think music critics are a total joke. Art is subjective to the individual. So they are entitled to their opinion but I don’t understand why ppl give them such merit

Critics are a vestige from a bygone media era that the public doesn't understand anymore. It used to be that a person could read reviews by critics and find some that shared similar tastes as them. They trusted the individual and usually knew them by name and would seek out their reviews. Now it seems reviews are just points fans can use against other fan groups, or just for labels to campaign for awards.  

The public still have a positive connotation to a project having "good reviews" it's just the source or individual scores don't matter to them anymore. I think thats why the actual quality of reviews have gone down. It's not like critics weren't mean before, but the amount of personal attacks or the weirdly online phrasing have made it unprofessional. It can feel like they care more about being sassy and going viral. Funny because I think Pitchfork really helped to usher this era of criticism in and are a big reason people don't take it seriously. 

[StrawberryBlond 14,112]

I'm glad that she points out the hypocrisy of these publications. I've seen many reviews that are glowing but with a weirdly low score and vice versa. I really don't know what gives some critics a thrill about deliberately knocking an album just because everyone else thinks it's good and to knock down its overall MC score. What's going on with Pitchfork's weird relationship with Halsey's music is so weirdly personal, at least Gaga's never had to go through that. To purposely give her just under an halfway acceptable score and have the nerve to say to sing about her cancer is some sort of ego trip is really something. To focus on an artist's personal life rather than their music is so tacky, especially when said artist has done nothing wrong. 

On 10/30/2024 at 4:46 PM, HIM820 said:

It's not like critics weren't mean before, but the amount of personal attacks or the weirdly online phrasing have made it unprofessional. It can feel like they care more about being sassy and going viral. 

On the contrary, I'd say that critics are nicer than they ever have. They routinely score albums much higher than they used to 10,20 years ago. Critics were famously very harsh and I don't know what it is now, do they get paid off to be nice? It's just so weird to see critics basically all agree with each other on every album, it's not natural. I've never seen so many artists get scores in the 80's as I have for the last few years and it's very overblown. So to see Halsey get so needlessly attacked like she is by Pitchfork is an anomaly. 

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oftentimes, editors at Pitchfork will offer a critic or freelancer the chance to review a big release, but the editor's idea for an album score is a part of the offer.

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