Finneas Slams Pitchfork's 6.8 Review of Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft

[stewie_e]

Finneas reacts to Pitchfork’s 6.8 review of ‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT’:

“Nothing cool about writing a positive review of an album everyone likes - they’ve gotta have an angle. They gave ‘Born To Die’ a 5.5 - it’s their whole hater-ass bag.” pic.twitter.com/kOS9PP5Jax
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 27, 2024
Finneas, producer and brother of Billie Eilish,

Comments

[burntxtoashes]

I mean...6.8 is still relatively positive?

[nermal_kat]

but a 68 out of 100 is thisclose to failing

[my_moloko]

Failing? The way American's score things confused the fuck out of me.

[cbluechicken]

Anything under 65 is failing I believe but that's just the nyc school system lol

[owl_get_you]

Us too! Plus, it’s different from school to school. Like an A in Island County might start at 90/100 points but King County uses 95/100 points

[my_moloko]

That's wild. At my school, 80-84% was an A-, I think 85-90% was an A, and anything higher was an A+.

[swissbeauty23]

Taylor's album got around the same rating but people called it a shitty score

it's all relative then

[totteringg]

Yeah because critics always give Taylor ridiculously high ratings. There’s no world where that last album she did deserved a 6.8 on pitchfork’s scale when you look at other albums that get that rating much less higher.

[screamingintune]

yeah for a pop album that's pretty high for Pitchfork, aside from Taylor who always gets overscored.

Halsey's If I Can't Have Love I Want Power only got a 7.0 and imo it's the most exciting pop album in the last several years. It's funny that Finneas is calling out Born to Die here because Lana is one of the acts that Pitchfork really does score very high. NFR! got a 9.4 and it's a spectacular album so I'm not saying it isn't deserving, but even Taylor has never sniffed a score that high on Pitchfork

[icetypejim]

What I learned from the inflated scores among the gaming community is that basically people think anything less than an 8/10 is calling it mediocre if not outright bad.

[floatinglately]

it was a very thoughtful and measured review that thought the album had some great stuff it took pains to identify but didn’t achieve greatness as a whole…. i honestly can’t imagine an album that would not be a fair review for lol