How One Man Ruined Music Forever 

This video is fucking insane. It really drives me up the fucking wall when people see a change of opinion over 10+ years as a contradiction instead of growth or a change of taste. You're allowed to have your feelings on an album change over time. You are not beholden to a score you gave it a decade ago. And the score you give something is not law. It's a loose summerization of how you feel. There is no sacredness to it. If you really think scores matter this much, you're a mouthbreathing nerd.

I’m ready for the follow up video: “The Unnecessary Fall of Brad Taste in Music”

>Be a music related RU-vidr that gives opinions >Search RU-vid for music review >Get mad at the music reviewer for reviewing >Make a sloppily put together review of said reviewer >Receive backlash for being called a hypocrite >*shocked pikachu face*

“you are nitpicking and biased, i win, bye bye”

It's pretty common knowledge that in terms of music taste, Fantano and I have very little in common. That being said, anytime I've ever talked with Anthony 1 on 1, he's been nothing but patient and accepting of different viewpoints He can be an ass on socials and gets goofy with some of his ridiculous takes, but this was a clear hitpiece and a desperate attempt at making a castle out of sand

When your argument devolves into "you gave x this score but gave y that score" you're just mad.

18:40 "bias towards some artists" YEAH? LIKE ITS HIS OPINION? HE LIKES/DISLIKES THAT MUSIC STYLE.

Why do i feel like HipHopMadness doesn't understand what a review is. He is treating fantano like he pretends to give objective facts about quality.

Media literacy is dead and "valid criticism 😭" to "haters" have killed it

HipHopMadness' whole review immediately falls apart as soon as he defended Kanye, ain't no way he's defending what Kanye did. Separating the art and the artist can only go so far and people believing in this super hard are inhaling so much COPIUM.

Hearing words like "credibility" and "authority" makes me feel like people forget this: every music critic is just some regular person sharing their opinion. Like what do people want from him, should he just pander and lie about how he feels?

The guy says fantano is a contrarian even tough he said fantano specifically changed his opinion on swimming by Mac Miller to a higher score due to the public perspectieve of Mac changing for the better.

When you ask for turkey tom but get Rooster Rob instead:

I don’t think Melon really cares if someone enjoys music he doesn’t

Anthony Fantano is the Kurt Cobain of bald people. I will not be explaining this.

Rap fans try not to be self-aggrandizing and portray themselves as the center of art and culture for 1 minute challenge: difficulty: impossible

Honestly fantano makes me want to listen and become passionate for music unlike anybody else. If I didn't discover anthony fantano i would still be in my nightcore phase lmaoooo

Can’t really separate the art from the artist when the artist actively admits and doubles down on all their awful stuff in their music

reminder that in the Burzum review from 13 years ago Fantano says "Varg is a racist and I will not be reviewing his music again"

It is funny how the people who claim to dislike or hate Fantano are also the same ones who absolutely wait with bated breath for his review of whatever artist they like.

as if it's impossible to change your mind about an album 10 years later

SunnyV2 B-Sides

If this dude were to discover Mark from Spectrum Pulse, I'm convinced he would legit pop a blood vessel.

Fantano hearing Circles and having it help Swimming click is one of the most normal things in media. I have had this happen 5+ times, playing/reading/watching/listening to a follow up to a work and loving it, putting the original thing I didn't care for into a new context, and revisiting to discover a love for it that wasn't there before.

Eminem blacklisted himself by dropping bad music.

I'd like to thank HipHopMadness for telling fantano to proceed with caution. There could have been a spill or other workplace hazard in his studio. Always stay vigilant and report any OSHA violations.

HipHopMadness: "Anthony Fantano changes his opinions based on public shift." Also HipHopMadness: "Anthony Fantano is a contrarian."

"Anthony has been throwing around high scores a lot recently and here's a list of things he should've scored higher" was a weird direction for like a quarter of that video to go

People should be allowed to like whatever they like or dislike whatever they dislike without being gatekeeped. Music discussion has just gotten so toxic in the last few years.

Its funny, because the clip of Anthony talking to FD at 22:54 is proving that he DOES understand the dynamics of how trends change in hip hop, and he has open ears to that and aknowledge his bias. If anything, it immediately proves the video wrong.

Bro called antisemitism "antics" 💀

It blows my mind that people get so agitated about not liking music from a man that is objectively problematic and has been for years. I haven’t listened to Vultures and I have no desire to.

I think the funniest thing to ever happen in the online Hip-hop community is all these hip-hop "drama" channels switching on Fantano as soon as he called Vultures by Kanye ass. 😭😭

TBH "refuses to separate the art from the artist" is a major lauding as far as I'm concerned, even though it's stated so negatively. I'm tired of "Yeah he's like an F tier human being who makes others worse, sometimes all of society worse considering the money and influence he has, but he can make a good song so you should praise and buy his products!" as commentary on celebrities.

"It isnt just hardcore Kanye fans that have a problem with Fantano not reviewing the new album" >Proceeds to act like a hardcore Kanye fan for the rest of the video

I hate the idea that a review needs to be Objective (something that is literally impossible) in order to be valid or useful or interesting.

Brad reviewing some guy who is reviewing fantano who is reviewing music. This is the ouroboros sludge I need to keep the voices away.

I don’t hate Fantano because of his taste in music, I hate him because I am prejudiced against bald people who wear glasses

kanye fans when someone doesn't want to review his unlistenable garbage: "fantano has fallen... hundreds must unsubscribe"

Can you imagine being a hiphop channel and censoring swear words? A HIPHOP CHANNEL 😭😭😭

I think the way he paints Fantano's opinions as "getting it wrong", perfectly demonstrates his warped perception of art discussion. There has to be a "wrong" take, or a "correct" one, and anything that goes against the grain is considered "unfair and biased". When in reality, what's unfair and biased is their perception of his opinions. When his opinions differ from theirs, that makes them uncomfortable. So instead of trying to understand why he feels that way, they let their own biases seep into the way they respond; they refuse to understand. They make up theories to explain why he's enjoying or disliking something with zero evidence. Any amount of self reflection would reveal this to them, but that requires a certain amount of self awareness they straight up lack. When you argue for objectivity in art, you've already lost.

Imagine not thinking there's a problem with Nazis in 2024 😂

For people that say they don’t care about fantanos reviews. They seem to really care about his vultures 1 review 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

criticizing someone for pandering and also for being a contrarian in the same video is so funny

Bro said Fantano was getting old and out of touch but literally just gave Yeat a high score this year. It’s so funny how heated they get because this guy disagrees with them.

fantano has been into politics for at least 4 years now. I saw a reddit post with him getting asked what he would do if he didnt do music and he said something about politics.

When there’s heat against Fantano there will always be his son to cover for him💪😤

The way people take fantanos opinions like a personal attack when he disagrees with them is so weird

"He thinks it's only die-hard Kanye Fans that are bothered by this choice" I mean, he's right, I'm yet to see someone call him out for it that ISN'T a Kanye fan lmao

the thing that really weirds me out is that a lot of these channels claim that anthony should be taken off his pedestal of authority, when in every video, he says in the description "y'all know this is just my opinion, right?" i've never viewed him as some sort of arbiter of objective truth. you're not going to "dethrone" him by making strawman arguments, you do so by working harder as a critic than him. he holds my attention because i don't know of anyone else willing or able to put in the hours to cover music to the extent that he does.

13:01 the funny thing is that Fantano did actually review Dark Sky Paradise in a serious manner in a collaborative video with ARTV, which might be proof that this guy didn't put any thought or effort in his research.

People are upset at his opinions changing overtime which is wild to me. Stanley Kubrick’s the Shining was seen as a bad film by critics when it first came out then later on people are calling it a masterpiece. Idek why this needs explaining.

So basically, they put Fantano on this insanely revered, high pedestal and are now mad at him for being on that pedestal in a way they don't like. Literally fighting ghosts. Insane

How will music recover?

One may not like Sexyy Red's album, but Fantano's reasoning for enjoying the record are not just very clearly his opinion, but are also well-reasoned arguments for what he underscores as good qualities of the record, like how much of its DNA is rooted in southern hip-hop acts like Three Six Mafia, which is more than true if you know that sound, and I find it crazy that someone out there thinks it somehow ruins his integrity that he likes the sound he's publicly known for liking.

Mfers take music critique too seriously 😭

Mans treating album scores like anime power rankings

HipHopMadness when Fantano changes his mind:

genuinely don't understand the hate for fantano. i could never use that much energy to hate a reviewer guy

Baffling how far people will go to create some pseudo intellectual bullshit argument as to why Fantano is unnecessary or bad at what he does. Hes a fantastic critic, plain and simple. Whether you like what he has to say is another thing entirely

2:35 - "He'll Regrade based on public perception", It's called changing your mind and having a new perspective on an art piece, there's nothing wrong with that. Everybody's opinion changes when time passes whether they see it more positively or negatively, you're not a hypocrite for doing something that's completely normal.

Sunnyv2 was a mistake

Brad taste in music is more of a Contrarian then fantano tbh

I remember being 15 listening to TPAB and thinking it was mediocre. The songs had strange rhythms to them and wasn’t what I liked at the time which was mainly just Kanye. Then a year later after listening to GKMC and DAMN I decided to give TPAB a listen again and literally fell in love. The songs made sense, they sounded incredible and I was able to appreciate the album for what it is. Since then I’ve listened to TPAB a dozen times and each listen it gets better and better. We change and music changes with us, I still don’t like death grips I just couldn’t get into them but maybe in a couple years I might or not but that’s just me. Don’t force yourself to like music, you don’t have to agree with Brad, fantano or any music critic. Enjoy the music for you and you only.

Joey Bada$$ was literally joking in that one interview, that was such a terrible example😭

Whole video: ok well it’s almost like perspective and context can change and people can find understanding in things wow

I like some of hiphop madnesses videos but this video solidified what I’m feeling about hip hop discussion, being that a lot of it is just simply stupid and often unfun to even try and engage in. I’m not the biggest fantano fan but if an argument point against this guy is the fact he sometimes rates albums differently then everyone else then I believe hip hop discussion has really devolved

"his inability to distinguish art from the artist" meanwhile fantano literally explained why it wasn't possible to a few seconds ago

im pretty sure if i walked up to the average person born in 1985 and played money machine by 100 gecs, they would fucking implode and fantano considers it the 40th best song of the 2010s so i dont get where this "oh he doesnt get the new sounds" stuff comes from.

where is your review of the new twenty one pilots song, mr twenty one pilots reviewer

The problem with hip hop video essay channels is that they only listen to rap so they could care less about Fantano’s opinions on any other genre

cant wait for these people to learn that humans can change their opinions- also not the kanye "separate the art from the artist" defence thats taking something thats NOT ABOUT CURRENTLY LIVING ARTISTS - media literacy and common sense is dead i swear 😭😭😭 its embarrassing to hear people say to separate art from artist because theyre literally referencing something incorrectly 😭😭😭😭

It's pretty rare that I agree with Fantano, but I learned a long time ago to not overthink it and just let a review be what it is. That's how I am with basically every reviewer I watch, including you (I'm a new subscriber but I've been watching a bunch of your stuff to get a feel for what you do).

I wonder if Fantano is gonna invite HipHopMadness to an online discussion about the video, similar to what he did with Duplee. If he does, I hope HHM actually comes prepared with receipts (I know these receipts don't exist) and is less cringey and unprepared as Duplee was.

can't believe Fantano ruined Raidiohead😭😭😭

One of the biggest problems I have with the video is that with the argument of “women rappers” it takes that label as a genre rather than a thing particular of the artist, in terms of sound, cardi and sexyy are not the same so it’s (for me at least, as a woman) a dishonest comparison. Another thing is that the video doesn’t take in the context that fantano doesn’t only review rap, and listening to other genres will 100% change the perception of other genres.

fantano hate is unironically one of the most cringe things in music discourse because it's basically just synecdoche for the anti-intellectual rejection of all music critique

Brad Taste In Melon

Hiphopmadness, the type of dude to see how the majority of hiphop listeners think about an album before giving his own opinion

I love when online clowns pretend music is an objectivly measured thing like the half life of carbon. I love Brad's brand of positivity and openness to different opinions.

BRAD WAKE UP. 21 pilots has dropped a song

"He's such a bad and unnecesary critic, just look at how much I disagree with him"

it's really funny because the video constantly almost makes a fair point then uses it to say something completely insane

"Literally unalived his bandmate" I think we should "unalive" the word "unalive"

I do not understand how anyone can take a god damn music review so seriously and personally. People are way too obsessed with having the “right” opinion. Which is a fruitless endeavour when we’re talking about a subject as subjective as music. No one has “authority” over the discourse of music. And that’s the beauty of it. The fact that Fantano lives rent free inside people’s heads over something as trivial as a music review is hilarious and sad at the same time.

Why did HHM's video feel AI generated?

“Proceed with caution” tf you mean? He’s a guy reviewing songs not a feral animal 💀

So sad to see Brad have a fallout with his Dad..

cookie recipe...

People are delusional if they think their opinions or political perspectives don't impact your feelings on music. To say otherwise is so bonkers to me. Like how is this a dig at anyone.

the mac miller stuff they talked about in that video drives me up the wall lmao because the order of events makes sense! mac tragically passes, the first post death release makes fantano cry and that makes the music click! that makes so much sense lmao

Oh dam I was hoping this was gonna be a vid but didn't know that was actually gonna happen, nice

Wow I can't believe that context and time can change someone's opinion on music. I have never once changed my opinion on music that's why I still listen to nursery rhymes.

"You know we had to get the BRADIGANS in here! YO 'TANO I GOTCHU!" - Brad Taste in Music

i love branch taste in munich videos

I actually became a fan of swimming after circles. I feel like that album recontextualizes it

Nice numbers on the vid brad you should do more of these. This was fun

this is wild to watch as someone who went to fantano for music recs in middle/high school and has since fell off from watching him. after the fader came after him, he started vocalizing this staunch political stance and bringing it up in a lot of stuff and i didnt vibe with it. not that i dont agree with what hes saying, i just didnt care to hear it in a review or see his smug ass tweets. now that ive chilled out a little more, it doesnt bother me as much. the guy can have his own opinions on politics or music and present them anyway he wants as a creator. what is wild to me is that in this chronically online time we live in, mfs really put him on a pedastal and act like he is THE guy. fantano has never came out and said “im an authority on hip hop.” hes never said hes an authority on anything. hes a dude who loves music and shares his opinons and has found a way to make a living off of it, and thats pretty cool to see, even if you dont agree with everything he says. i cant imagine sitting down and being a guy who loves rap music and makes content about the industry, making an exposé about how an internet critic giving his opinon on a shitty kanye album is indicative of them falling from grace. people like this just do anything for clicks, its kinda sad.

how this man gonna say he gave Mac Miller a higher score to appease the crowd and than minutes later calll him just a contrarion?

somehow he changed the rating on Mac because he was riding the waves of public opinion, but hes also a contrarian? make it make sense.