You know what’s funny is in the same time period Halsey posted this years ago Anthony Fantano was still using racial slurs and attacking leftist protesters at college campuses but he likes to cover that up.
a lot of you are being very disingenuous about why halsey reacted to it. it's not because it was a bad score but it was how he talked about her. why can't she be the main character of her own story? it's a very normal thing songwriters have done for decades. even in stories where more people are involved but this one was just about her
Being a woman dealing with serious health issues often means being afraid of telling the truth about the pain you’re in because you’re afraid of not being believed or seeming attention seeking. He validated that fear to thousands of women.
Who cares he gave a bad review? I care that a pay for clicks reaction YouTuber can facade as a pro critic and say it’s “main character syndrome” for an artist to lament her medical suffering on an album (surprise!) about her own life. He’s a raised-by-4chan edgelord bully. Yuck.
She has the right to be personally angry at him given how he spoke about her in the review. “Main character syndrome” for centering herself and her experiences with cancer on her own album could justify much worse than words to be honest.