Hardy's the mockingbird & THE CROW is NOT GOOD! 

Also that cover art is giving me strong "I can be your Angle or yuor Devil" vibes.

Now that you've covered the music part, I'd like to tackle the typography where the gothic C in "crow" is actually a gothic T, therefore titling the album "The Mockingbird and the TROW." This might, in fact, be a more accurate title given the quality of the music.

Bird furries are called avians but furry is still the catch-all term

This sounds like if Ronnie Radke did country instead of hip hop

I feel like all country musicians should have a fursona. Its the next step for the genre

When the artist does the fake snake eyes thing you KNOW you're getting some jin-yu-wine garbage. Ed Hardy truly does not disappoint

The thing is crows aren't really aggressive or angry animals. They're actually quite friendly and actually very intelligent.

I always love a “Not Good” review by Fantano

"Birdsona" killed me. One of Anthony's best digs.

Hardy was right. I’m too busy on my iPad watching this instead of buying baseballs from Walmart 10/10 AOTY 🔒

I love how the album art captures the sheer facebook skull with guns and some edgy comment in a gothic font energy that come out of people complaining in social media about vaccination, qanon and shit like that. Is so honestly transparent.

Hardy's next album "The Piglet & The Sea Bass" was just announced, I'm SO excited.

"Hardy takes us to Walmart on his new concept album." It's a Mallsoft album!?😍😍

As someone who grew up in a small town it sickens me that country music has reduced itself to glorifying alcoholism, sexual objectification and a simple minded lifestyle (dirt road, truck, boat, lake, beer) that doesn’t show a deeper understanding of these situations or any real passion for anybody in particular that they would be singing these songs to. It’s like a checklist of lyrics, chords, drum machine, twang, wash, rinse, repeat. 9 times out of 10 these songs are literally about nobody.

Sad to see he didn't enjoy Mr. Mockingbird and The Big Crowers

Im glad theres finally an album that can be ur mockingbird or ur crow... really makes u think...

The only thing worse was Hardy's Royal Rumble performance.

I was at the WWE Royal Rumble this year and was privileged to a free live performance of this art. Was life defining.

That walmart comment at the end is actually super sad and true. I met my gf online and turns out she lives like 40 minutes from me in a small town. I went to visit her and it's very rural. It's full of lovely people but you can tell that a lot of people are struggling economically. To sing about about a store which is just taking advantage of your economic position is so sad and you can tell that Hardy doesn't realize that and that's just as sad. Not saying I have it a lot better or whatever, but we all deserve better and rural folk are sadly fooled thinking walmart and stores like them are saviors because things cost a couple of dollars less, making these corporations richer while not actually helping the community in any other way.

This sounds like if the hypothetical character Bo Burnham made up for his pop country bit in Make Happy made an entire album.

The color temperature of the video changing from 6:49 to 6:50 is a metaphor for how badly the two halves of this double album don't fit together while being forced to coexist, like two halves of a video which were filmed under different lighting conditions that are edited together anyway. Very good usage of subtle visual symbolism Antnee, 10/10 video.

Bo Burnham literally made fun of the kimd of music Hardy makes almost 10 years ago. It just seems crazy that this kind of country music has not been called out or jist ended.

He says country music died from a broken heart? Call that a hardy-ttack

You went back and fixed your mistakes unlike the holding call in the Super Bowl

Inspired to write this album after making direct eye contact with a bird

Real ones know this is a re-upload

I first heard Hardy perform on the Royal Rumble PPV last month, and I hated it so much

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the Walmart sporting section? 😭

real ones know this is the first “not good” of 2023

This album was so good Anthony had to review it twice!

The irony of how me made a song making fun of "radio friendly country" yet he keeps glorifying Walmart despite Walmart being infamous for censoring the music on their shelves.

Waited until the Eagles lost to give a Philly artist a NOT GOOD. Sinister.

walmart was founded in arkansas so it technically is southern

Hey, Anthony! For modern country-ish music that actually addresses some of the corporate elements well, try out Willi Carlisle’s “Peculiar, Missouri” from last year. He’s a peer of Adeem the Artist (they have a couple shows together in March), if that gives you any idea.

So Hardy recently performed at The Royal Rumble. The PPV itself was amazing but his performance was so bad that even the WWE Staff disliked it and regretted booking him and his band for the performance. Seeing this review just seems to validate that sentiment.

it's Carl's JR's the mockingbird & the crow in my region 💅

the fall from grace jeremy/ADTR have had since the 2020s started makes me so sad.

Anthony I know Hardee's doesn't have many vegan options but does that really mean you have to give them a Not Good?

Hardy played at the Royal Rumble this year, they could have given the wrestling matches a few extra minutes but no, we sat there and listened to Hardy. It was not good.

There's a song on this called Radio Song and he got the XXX vinyl in the background lol

As a wrestling fan, thank you Melon

coming back to hear this man pronounce "beer," and "jackDAANYULS"

This was so funny and just what I needed this morning. Thanks Anthony! Never knew that I needed to know what a Birdsona was! 🐦🦅🦉

a crow glared at me

Jack Daniels and Walmart in the lyrical content? I GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT!

i live in a rural area and have to go to walmart bc it's the only department store in the area. they're only a part of rural culture by force. i would smite walmart from the earth if i could

the comments on wait in the truck are mind-blowing

this dude performed a song from this at a wrestling ppv i watched and the crowd was SILENT

I cannot believe the dude from A Day to Remember is on this

Hardy introduced me to Bisquick, which is why this record is a 10 for me. Love u hardy 😍

Anthony transitions from the Mockingbird review to the Crow review almost exactly halfway through this video

Bro doesn’t know shit about country music if he thinks it’s not known for country albums

Walmart is a genuine part of rural American culture

shoutout to all my birdsonas

in the wise words of morgan wallen, i know it's cliché to sing Chevrolets, cold beers and Fridays But that's just the way it is out here.

i kept hearing "crow soda" instead of crownsona and all i could think of is FIGHT MILK!

The thing that bums me out the most about this is that there's so much ACTUALLY GOOD country music being made, and yet what gets produced, consumed, and played on radio is so often awful. I guess that's probably the case with many genres in terms of their respective pop/alt factions, but damn country get your shit together! Shout outs to some of my favorites: Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Margo Price, Shovels and Rope, Steve Earle, Lucero, Justin Townes Earle, Old 97s, Murder By Death, Jason Isbell, Neko Case, Wilco, Sun Volt, Drive By Truckers, Tyler Childers, Adeem The Artist, Shakey Graves, Esme Paterson, Langhorne Slim, Colter Wall. Yes, I sure some of those groups don't seem like 'country' acts (they're Americana or some other thing); close enough for this topic...

You should watch his performance from the WWE Royal rumble this year. It was… bad. So bad. To say the least.

From what it sounds like, it someone who wanted to make a country album but does not know a thing about the south or country music.

thinking man's Mr morale and the big steppers

This album is good. It ain’t my kinda shit at all, but for what he’s trying to accomplish, he’s done it.

Saw this album at Walmart on clearance ironically. (I passed on it)

I’ve got a friend who loves this guy and the album I told him to check out the video, he wasn’t too happy with what you said lmao

I honestly just want to know why Southern gritty rural country types identify with Walmart, the most sanitized corporate mainstream American institution not named Disney.

As a European this Genre/Vibe is such a mystery to me. Truly bewildering.

Hahha I love this album. It's not perfect, but I don't view it pandering at all. I feel like a lot of the commenters are projecting some country stigma onto it. Back when I lived in New York, I used to think that references in country music like the Walmart thing (or the aspirational Yeti cooler in "Buy Me A Boat") were purely pandering-greedy corporations gaslighting the poor Southerners into these fake emblems of Southern culture. I think as I actually got to know people in the country community, I dropped a lot of my cynicism. People really DO shop at WalMart for everything. They DO want a Yeti. We can argue all day about whether that should be the case, but I think songs like those present life as it is for so many, rather than some idealized version that I had in my head. (At least that's how I've changed as a listener.) Anyway, just my two cents! I find the whole idea of Hardy being both a mockingbird and a crow so fascinating, but I get we all hear stuff differently.

I like how he switches to talking about the second disc in the middle of the review just like how the album switches

I can’t wait for Logic to review this review !!

5:15 FATHER HOW DO I PUT APP ON BASEBALL BAT I CANNOT CLICK LIKE IPAD

Tom Hardy should really stick with acting.

Bro trust me if you were basically forced to listen to the mainstream country radio station at work his music sounds decent in comparison. "Wait in the truck" is probably the one song on that station rotation that sounds tolerable

Anthony do you have seperate flannels that you just wear for reviews or do you wear them as normal clothes too

Hardy deserves this for the performance he gave at the Royal Rumble

"BIRDSONA" 😂😂😂

The first upload: the mockingbird The second upload: the crow

I feel like this one review could be applied to almost every modern day country album.

It’s about killing the light that someone carries

Jeremy McKinnon on radio song made me do a fucking double take. I mean after the last ADTR album it's not really surprising but... wtf

The fact that you said “thirty oh six” and the fact that you think Hardy is screaming in “Radio Song” …

God, I love my pickup truck.

Actual Hardy comments: “I don’t listen to country but hardy is real country” This dude is essentially the Tom MacDonald of country

Hardy has said in interviews that he grew up listening to Puddle of Mudd

The altfurs in Arkansas are going to love this album, thanks for the recommendation Fantano!

Melon, you can’t just give album a “not good” then proceed to go on a rant about how the NFL is rigged

The "Birdsona" part got me 😂😂🤣🤣🤣

I work at the Texas Roadhouse, and based on your descriptions, I wouldn't be surprised to hear some of these songs played on the radio there. The thing I wish people would understand is that it's not country, it's just pop music with a southern accent. When I learned that distinction, I learned to stop hating country, and it's since become one of my favorite genres of music.

" Nobodys buying baseballs at Walmart" Who tf does that, just get one from Academy Sports or Dicks

You’ll review this but ignore Tyler Childers, Zach Bryan, and Charles Wesley Godwin.

I saw Hardy perform at the Royal Rumble. It was terrible.

Well I can say I really liked the music video to the mockingbird & the crow.

Maybe this dude is using Walmart like a hip hop song would use like, Rosecrans Avenue. Like "Walmart is my turf." You better not step to this dude, he's seen some stuff in that Subway line.

This guy sounds so miserable

Honestly this album is the closest you'll ever get to living in rural America without driving

He looks exactly like someone who would make an album I wouldn't ever want to listen to

anthony fantano, i hate you, but i hate hardy more so i support you

no its actually so fucking sad and weird that walmart gets shouted out in country music like what the fuck are we doing

poor baseballs at walmart 😭😭

"Intellectualising Hardy is wrong. It's possible, it's just wrong. Like, you can just enjoy that shit." -Lucy Dacus

Sold out is kind of a guilty pleasure for me

the birdsona part LMAO