💰 Grifter Anthony Fantano / TheNeedleDrop - "The Internet's Busiest Music Nerd"™, heelturned since 2017, slowly becoming smug SJW, threw Sam Hyde under the bus

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Anthony dropped his review of Royel Otis' hickey today and once I saw the red flannel, I knew I was going to get pissed off, but I didn't even know how pissed off I'd get.
Rate me Autistic, I don't care, but it goes beyond him harshly reviewing one of my favorite current acts. It's something about how he views that some artists can have fun, but some can't. Being inspired by another act can be "copying." He's just the fun killer. (And I know that the music itself isn't anything groundbreaking, I just like it.)
Also, he didn't even bother reviewing their previous album, Pratts & Pain, so the dude can't even speak on a reviewer's standpoint properly. I know that you can review a single album as a "standalone", but I feel like when you give enough background talking about where they were before the new album, you should've listened to the one that proceeded it. Just my two cents.
And oh God is the comment section cancerous.
 
Lil Miku said:
Anthony dropped his review of Royel Otis' hickey today and once I saw the red flannel, I knew I was going to get pissed off, but I didn't even know how pissed off I'd get.
Rate me Autistic, I don't care, but it goes beyond him harshly reviewing one of my favorite current acts. It's something about how he views that some artists can have fun, but some can't. Being inspired by another act can be "copying." He's just the fun killer. (And I know that the music itself isn't anything groundbreaking, I just like it.)
Also, he didn't even bother reviewing their previous album, Pratts & Pain, so the dude can't even speak on a reviewer's standpoint properly. I know that you can review a single album as a "standalone", but I feel like when you give enough background talking about where they were before the new album, you should've listened to the one that proceeded it. Just my two cents.
And oh God is the comment section cancerous.
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He’s always a horrible reviewer. He just doesn't know it yet.
 
Lil Miku said:
Anthony dropped his review of Royel Otis' hickey today and once I saw the red flannel, I knew I was going to get pissed off, but I didn't even know how pissed off I'd get.
Rate me Autistic, I don't care, but it goes beyond him harshly reviewing one of my favorite current acts. It's something about how he views that some artists can have fun, but some can't. Being inspired by another act can be "copying." He's just the fun killer. (And I know that the music itself isn't anything groundbreaking, I just like it.)
Also, he didn't even bother reviewing their previous album, Pratts & Pain, so the dude can't even speak on a reviewer's standpoint properly. I know that you can review a single album as a "standalone", but I feel like when you give enough background talking about where they were before the new album, you should've listened to the one that proceeded it. Just my two cents.
And oh God is the comment section cancerous.
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You can only have fun music if it's the approved form of fun. He now just takes Pitchfork/RYM reviews and regurgitates it.
 
Noble Redditor said:
He has a new video "ranking the best streaming platforms" and I figure "why not?" assuming the parameters would include platforms who have the best variety, streaming quality, prices that type of video would actually be useful information.
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Your biggest mistake is twofold:

a) Assuming that Fantano has anything worthwhile to provide as a pop music "commentator" when he hasn't had a single original thought since his days of shitposting on /mu/. All of his commentaries, reviews, and analyses of music in $current_year regurgitate the same milquetoast opinions found in Pitchfork and Complex articles.

b) Assuming that music streaming services offer anything of legitimate value. Yar har fiddle dee dee, something something, do what you want because you're a pirate or whatever. There is no meaningful commentary that Fantano can offer about streaming services when piracy is the superior option every single time, and even if you were committed to "legal" streaming, the debate's been settled for the better half of the last decade.
  • Spotify wins through sheer ubiquity, vast scope of content offered (now pivoting into audiobooks, with podcasting having a firm foothold for the last 5+ years) but sucks because of price inflation, licensing bullshit, and algorithmic overengineering. Discover Weekly hasn't let anyone discover new music since 2019, and no one at Spotify cares enough to fix the problem. Fun fact: paying for Spotify is a fool's errand when SpotX exists. Yar har fiddle dee dee indeed.

  • Apple Music wins because it's native to all iPhones, gets timed exclusives before Spotify, and regularly offers users free, three-month trials yet it sucks because 10+ years of Apple Music's existence, and its algorithms are hideously underengineered. Not to mention that Apple Music itself completely and utterly gutted the local iPhone Music app that I've used for well over a decade to store all my goddamn music. Now I have streaming recommendations mixed in with my local library of music I've cultivated since the days of Beemp3 and Mp3skull.

  • TIDAL wins on sheer lossless quality alone, and sucks on literally everything else. Learn how to use Tor or BitTorrent, find some obscure Russian torrent tracker or some Tor node that hosts FLACs, and download them like a normal person.

  • Honourable mention: Pandora was fantastic when the Music Genome Project actually meant something. Pandora's fucking garbage now, and absolutely not worth anyone's time unless you're seriously nostalgic for that weird space between 2008-2013 when Pandora could actually recommend you new artists. Still a decent enough option for a background noise service if you have uBlock Origin and don't pay for their paid plans.
 
Dread First said:
b) Assuming that music streaming services offer anything of legitimate value. Yar har fiddle dee dee, something something, do what you want because you're a pirate or whatever. There is no meaningful commentary that Fantano can offer about streaming services when piracy is the superior option every single time, and even if you were committed to "legal" streaming, the debate's been settled for the better half of the last decade.
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if theres one thing i can say about music streaming, it's that it's convenient. i am an album person generally. i find it a hassle to try and find albums on piracy sites that are decent quality because a) they might not have it and b) they have it, but they dont have enough seeders or something to download them easily, so they end up stalling a lot.
and how long before the days of downloading youtube videos with an unofficial downloader are gone and that simply isnt an option anymore?
i put my music on the phone like an mp3 player. im not buying a cd player and then buying dozens of cds in mass just to play some at a time. theyre cumbersome to bring with you and scratch easily. and i dont have a disc drive on my pc to burn shit from them so thats not an option either. btw some of the music i listen to has no physical release at all.
best option for me would be, if i really wanna support someone, see if they got a bandcamp or something that i can purchase their stuff from. otherwise, probably something like youtube music since that allows for discoverability of new music groups or artists.
 
Toxic BRAAAAP Mask said:
So has this guy had leaks of him geing pegged by a tranny yet? Because that's all I can think of when I see his physignomy.
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So you look at a man and the first thing thought that pops into your head is what they look like getting pegged by a tranny?? I think you might have some homosexual proclivities bro.
 
Noble Redditor said:
So you look at a man and the first thing thought that pops into your head is what they look like getting pegged by a tranny?? I think you might have some homosexual proclivities bro.
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Nah, first thing I think is he looks like a Lolifornian libcuck, then the pattern recognition kicks in, his tweets and vids don't help either. We'd be rich if we had a buck for every guy who looks exactly like him that are some shade of secret sex deviant. Tranny chaser or wife cucked by BBC feels like they'd be at the top of the list.
 
DeadwastePrime said:
if theres one thing i can say about music streaming, it's that it's convenient. i am an album person generally. i find it a hassle to try and find albums on piracy sites that are decent quality because a) they might not have it and b) they have it, but they dont have enough seeders or something to download them easily, so they end up stalling a lot.
and how long before the days of downloading youtube videos with an unofficial downloader are gone and that simply isnt an option anymore?
i put my music on the phone like an mp3 player. im not buying a cd player and then buying dozens of cds in mass just to play some at a time. theyre cumbersome to bring with you and scratch easily. and i dont have a disc drive on my pc to burn shit from them so thats not an option either. btw some of the music i listen to has no physical release at all.
best option for me would be, if i really wanna support someone, see if they got a bandcamp or something that i can purchase their stuff from. otherwise, probably something like youtube music since that allows for discoverability of new music groups or artists.
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I don't disagree with you on principle; I'm guilty of relying more on YouTube Music with uBlock Origin on desktop and AdGuard on iOS. I even have Spotify on desktop with SpotX enabled. Having said that, I would still argue that there's fundamental value in making the effort to pirate music. The biggest reason why I despise music streaming sites is that your "downloads" are effectively locked to that specific platform. What's the point of downloading an entire Coheed & Cambria album on Spotify if I don't have the luxury of importing it into my iTunes library? Even with DRM, Apple proved that people were willing to pay for digital copies of albums in an accessible format (i.e. MP3/M4A). Admittedly, music piracy was much easier in the days of FileTram as a search engine for sites like MediaFire, MEGAUPLOAD, RapidShare, 4Shared, and Sendspace. Those channels are off the table nowadays, but torrent trackers still exist. RuTracker is a goldmine for just about everything. There's also the matter of foreign artists who don't necessarily make their music easily accessible to a Western audience. Слот is a Russian band I've listened to intermittently since middle school, but it's basically impossible to find their music outside of Russian forums and streaming sites. I think they have some stuff on Spotify, but good luck looking their shit up without a Cyrillic keyboard. Piracy is an inevitability at that point.
 
Looks like he finally released a video on the D4VD allegations (y'know, after everyone and their mother has had an opinion and a video on it. So much for being the "busiest music nerd").
 
DeadwastePrime said:
if theres one thing i can say about music streaming, it's that it's convenient. i am an album person generally. i find it a hassle to try and find albums on piracy sites that are decent quality because a) they might not have it and b) they have it, but they dont have enough seeders or something to download them easily, so they end up stalling a lot.
and how long before the days of downloading youtube videos with an unofficial downloader are gone and that simply isnt an option anymore?
i put my music on the phone like an mp3 player. im not buying a cd player and then buying dozens of cds in mass just to play some at a time. theyre cumbersome to bring with you and scratch easily. and i dont have a disc drive on my pc to burn shit from them so thats not an option either. btw some of the music i listen to has no physical release at all.
best option for me would be, if i really wanna support someone, see if they got a bandcamp or something that i can purchase their stuff from. otherwise, probably something like youtube music since that allows for discoverability of new music groups or artists.
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Not that I am advocating piracy or anything (lol) but RuTracker has nearly any album you could ask for in FLAC and they never fail to download no matter how obscure. If that fails Soulseek never does, a bit more inconvienient because it is P2P rather than torrents but still very user friendly.
 

I feel like there is probably a more general thread this could go in. But idk where.

Anyway. He is being a pussy and clearly trying to rewrite the past. I watched him during the era he's talking about. He absolutely did seem to like odd future, and Tyler the creator.

I don't remember the comment sections being that crazy either. Just normal shit. Much less "posting swastikas because they knew my wife was black". Nigger what are you talking about?

And the whole topic the video about is dumb. Instead of freaking out when you find out Tyler the creator did edgy art and music.

You would hope people would realize looking at things the black and white modern lenses, of if someone says something offensive they are a bad person. They would realize oh, this artist that I liked said fucked up things (very openly) and they are still the same person. But I guess you would need to have some level of introspection. I'm not surprised. I just can't help but point out how dumb it is.

Back to fantano. He is obviously playing down his knowledge a bit, and trying to distance himself. Like when he brings up that Tyler wore a KKK outfit. I'm pretty sure that wasn't some obscure thing if you knew about him on the level he clearly did, you would have known about it.... But also he's fucking black?! Lmao as if that's him endorsing the KKK, or the black face thing. How can anyone pearl clutch over this. These people are so fucking shallow with what they care about.


Oh and my favorite quote from the video "especially as a white person"

Also wtf is he talking about. "I don't see him trying to get his fans to engage with black culture" how the fuck is that something he should be worrying about? Just let people listen to things they want to listen to. No one gives a fuck if someone doesn't want to listen to some nigger singer that you think is important.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:
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I feel like there is probably a more general thread this could go in. But idk where.

Anyway. He is being a pussy and clearly trying to rewrite the past. I watched him during the era he's talking about. He absolutely did seem to like odd future, and Tyler the creator.

I don't remember the comment sections being that crazy either. Just normal shit. Much less "posting swastikas because they knew my wife was black". Nigger what are you talking about?

And the whole topic the video about is dumb. Instead of freaking out when you find out Tyler the creator did edgy art and music.

You would hope people would realize looking at things the black and white modern lenses, of if someone says something offensive they are a bad person. They would realize oh, this artist that I liked said fucked up things (very openly) and they are still the same person. But I guess you would need to have some level of introspection. I'm not surprised. I just can't help but point out how dumb it is.

Back to fantano. He is obviously playing down his knowledge a bit, and trying to distance himself. Like when he brings up that Tyler wore a KKK outfit. I'm pretty sure that wasn't some obscure thing if you knew about him on the level he clearly did, you would have known about it.... But also he's fucking black?! Lmao as if that's him endorsing the KKK, or the black face thing. How can anyone pearl clutch over this. These people are so fucking shallow with what they care about.


Oh and my favorite quote from the video "especially as a white person"

Also wtf is he talking about. "I don't see him trying to get his fans to engage with black culture" how the fuck is that something he should be worrying about? Just let people listen to things they want to listen to. No one gives a fuck if someone doesn't want to listen to some nigger singer that you think is important.
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Fagtango has really lost his mind, hasn't he? I always knew he wasn’t smart.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
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Another Wojak and more.

Ccourtesy of 4chan’s /mu/ board:

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I knew he was a virtue-signalling faggot, but I didn't realise how bad it was. This post was a real eye opener into a few things which I'd never bothered to check out. What an absolute fag he is for nuking Thatistheplan because mainstream media reached out to him. What a depressing reminder he is of how badly neutered the internet is.

Anyway, I forgot that I was subscribed and made sure to do unsub when I noticed. I decided to scroll through his reviews from the last 12 months and sure enough, unless I'm blind, he's given 0 red flannel reviews to a female artist since Halsey over a year ago.

Lil Miku said:
Anthony dropped his review of Royel Otis' hickey today and once I saw the red flannel, I knew I was going to get pissed off, but I didn't even know how pissed off I'd get.
Rate me Autistic, I don't care, but it goes beyond him harshly reviewing one of my favorite current acts. It's something about how he views that some artists can have fun, but some can't. Being inspired by another act can be "copying." He's just the fun killer. (And I know that the music itself isn't anything groundbreaking, I just like it.)
Also, he didn't even bother reviewing their previous album, Pratts & Pain, so the dude can't even speak on a reviewer's standpoint properly. I know that you can review a single album as a "standalone", but I feel like when you give enough background talking about where they were before the new album, you should've listened to the one that proceeded it. Just my two cents.
And oh God is the comment section cancerous.
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My guess is that his review is purely based off public backlash Reddit fans (aka faggots) have given the band and less to do with the content of the album. Why else would he opt to skip album #1 but then dunk on album #2? The comments reflect the Reddit opinion of the band, which is probably what Fagtano wanted. He'd hate to give an album a decent or good rating and then have his soy fans go "ummm ackshually, these guys are problematic and need to be cancelled".

His non-reviews of Vultures and Vultures 2 made me want to listen to them out of curiosity and they weren't even that bad.
He of course won't bother reviewing Bully either because "Kanye bad", but that hasn't stopped him from clickbaiting the album and in turn taking the top fucking result for the album on Google:

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Can't remember where I found the images of him in this thread proving that he has sex because he had a sex worker hanging out with him, but that patheticness reminds me of Boogie. I'd understand Boogie not getting laid and feeling like he has to post images of women to prove that he does (even though he doesn't), but Fantano? Like come on. That's just sad.

I totally agree with people's comparisons of him to idubbbz. He's a long way off where The Raped is now, but there's similarities. Usually the more criticism a lolcow gets, the more they buckle under the pressure, so here's hoping.
 
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You're right about the reddit opinion regarding Royel Otis, which I didn't mention in my post precisely because it's a whole other can of worms. He totally did it for the clicks and for more backlash towards the band. He probably did know about the drama regarding Royel but didn't bring it up. His whole cynicism was definitely giving "if you know you know" vibes.
Regardless, I'm off the hype train regarding that band now so I guess his review influenced me still.
About Kanye, those videos are so annoying. If you don't want to review the album, just make a post about it! It also annoys me that he'll do those videos Kanye but not for, say, a new Ryan Adams or Sun Kil Moon album. Probably because Ye is the most popular "cancelled" musician that's not Drake.
 
Lil Miku said:
You're right about the reddit opinion regarding Royel Otis, which I didn't mention in my post precisely because it's a whole other can of worms. He totally did it for the clicks and for more backlash towards the band. He probably did know about the drama regarding Royel but didn't bring it up. His whole cynicism was definitely giving "if you know you know" vibes.
Regardless, I'm off the hype train regarding that band now so I guess his review influenced me still.
About Kanye, those videos are so annoying. If you don't want to review the album, just make a post about it! It also annoys me that he'll do those videos Kanye but not for, say, a new Ryan Adams or Sun Kil Moon album. Probably because Ye is the most popular "cancelled" musician that's not Drake.
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And Fantano is a dumbass to boot. He might get canceled for something much worse. But I can’t prove that yet.

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