Pitchfork critic reassess low rating for Charli XCX's Vroom Vroom EP

[genbu_no_miko24]

Music critic Laura Snapes expresses regret over her 2016 Pitchfork review of Charli XCX's ‘Vroom Vroom’:

“Charli was ahead of her time, leaving me gratefully eating her dust.” pic.twitter.com/bbQU6JNX8K
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 8, 2023
Context: Back in 2016, Laura Snapes listened and reviewed Charli's Vroom Vroom EP. She gave a low rating of 4.5 (

Comments

[britneys]

I'm not exaggerating when I say Vroom Vroom made me completely change the way I view music. 90% of that was SOPHIE and her way of approaching sound.

Also, I think Charli is right in her feelings. I never liked Pitchfork's opinion on pop music and it's been so annoying that they keep re-evaluating their reviews on pop records they were wrong about.

[genbu_no_miko24]

"I never liked Pitchfork's opinion on pop music and it's been so annoying that they keep re-evaluating their reviews on pop records they were wrong about."

Comments like these are why I did the post! I never followed pitchfork but I've heard the criticism on here in the last few years of them suddenly~ re-evaluating a lot of pop or maligned artists.

Part of me is like is it because you genuinely "get it" now OR is this covering face?

[drunkard]

Pitchfork is truly the worst at reviewing pop music. They have given Taylor Swift albums better reviews than Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. Egregious.

[heyignatzmouse]

I was gonna say the same thing about their high reviews for taylor being why I can’t take them seriously.

[itsme_eloise]

i found SOPHIE's music during quarantine and it literally changed my life. i devoured everything i could find and the thought of going to a gig kept me going during hard times. i was devastated when she passed but now it's like, how lucky we are to have experienced something like that in the same era when a groundbreaking artist was alive.

[kirensauce]

Yea I got into her right after she passed

[noodlecookie]

MTE Pitchfork are permanently stuck in the edgy-teenager phase and will rarely ever look up at pop music, so their criticisms hold no value for me. SOPHIE was a revolution.