For the past few weeks, Halsey has been taking photos as her favorite musicians and debuting songs inspired by them for her album The Great Impersonator. But now that the album’s out, she’s fully back to being herself. That’s because Halsey has renewed her beef with music site Pitchfork after the outlet gave TGI a score of 4.8. Halsey turned writer Shaad D’Souza’s review into an old-timey promotional poster on Twitter, proclaiming, “Halsey’s Latest Act Wows Shaad!†And the poster does include some of D’Souza’s actual quotes from the review, taken out of context, declaring Halsey “a hugely compelling performer†and “one of the most successful artists of their generation.†(That bit about the “studio sounds and mumbles of between-take chatter†was not a compliment, though.)
Yes, it’s cringe, but hey, cringe is better than violent, which is what happened the last time Halsey beefed with Pitchfork. That was back in 2020, when the site gave Manic a 6.5 (a rave compared to TGI!), prompting Halsey to wonder if “the basement they run p*tchfork out of†could “just collapse already.†But she apologized that time, unaware that the Pitchfork office is literally in One World Trade Center. Oops! But for the record, when Vulture said “Halsey should just be herself†in our review of TGI, we did not mean “go back to attacking music critics.â€