Halsey refuses to let anyone silence her pain, especially YouTuber music critic Anthony Fantano.
The American singer-songwriter issued a scathing response to Fantano’s review of her album 2024, The great imitatora confessional concept album about Halsey’s health problems that almost killed her. But in his review, which was first shared with Fantano’s 3 million subscribers more than a year ago, Fantano describes Halsey’s album as “the worst case of ‘main character syndrome’ I’ve heard on any pop album in 2024.”
Although she initially didn’t respond, Halsey exploded when Fantano doubled down on X over the weekend, claiming that her review of the album was more interesting than the album itself.
Halsey responded on Sunday, June 21, writing on
He added: “But at least I had the excuse to undergo chemotherapy,” referring to his battle with lupus and a T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder.
“Who cares that I gave a bad review?” Halsey continued in another post. “I care that a pay-per-click YouTuber can pretend to be a professional critic and say it’s ‘main character syndrome’ for an artist to lament his medical suffering in an album (surprise!) about his own life.”
He bad in love The hitmaker went on to call Fantano a “4chan-raised Edgelord bully.”
In closing, she reminded readers that “being a woman facing serious health issues often means being afraid to tell the truth about the pain you feel because you’re afraid you won’t be believed or appear to be attention-seeking,” and Fantano “validated that fear for thousands of women” with her review.
