Pitchfork Does That Thing Where They Try To Correct Their Mistakes to Maintain Credibility

[shittysoup]

Anything to add? https://t.co/E244O83ZxI
- Pitchfork (@pitchfork) October 6, 2021

Pitchfork has gone back and re-reviewed 19 albums to rescore them. Some scores went up (way up) and others down.

According to Pitchfork:

These adjustments are born out of conversations we have all the time here on staff, much like the conversations you, our dear

Comments

[drblind]

pitchfork is so irrelevant now it's actually funny to think back on a time where a 0.0 could legit ruin a career lol

[megalixer]

tbh it's been too long since they've truly gone for the jugular, they hand out a 7ish to basically everything by default now

[drblind]

their numerical scores never make sense in relation to the review itself, like on the rare occasion i read their bs i'll read something where the review makes it sound GOD AWFUL and then like u said it's a 7 and i'm like lol what

[megalixer]

think they claim that the scores are done by panel while the written review is the product of a single writer, but also… clearly they don't have a problem futzing with the scores lol

[drblind]

i never knew this and now it makes even less sense!!! lmaooo

[kidviciousdonna]

0.0 is so damn rude too