Halsey has hit out at Anthony Fantano’s critique about her latest album, ‘The Great Impersonator’, after he said it was suffering from “main character syndrome”.
Halsey released her fifth studio effort in 2024, and it was given a glowing five-star review from NME and later named one of our best albums of that year – praised for its reckoning with chronic illness and postpartum depression.
The Needle Drop‘s Fantano, however, scored it a “decent one” out of 10. A subsequent back and forth between the two kicked off on Sunday night (June 21), triggered by an X user saying they didn’t agree with the way he “approached some aspects” of the review, and didn’t understand “how there’s still discourse about it all this time later”.
Fantano then quote-tweeted the post, writing: “If they’re more into the review than the album 
