NEW YORK — Singer Halsey blasted self-styled music critic Anthony Fantano on Sunday after his scathing review of her 2024 album “The Great Impersonator” resurfaced in adjacent social media discussions, branding him a “raised-by-4chan edgelord bully” for dismissing the dire health conditions she had chronicled in her songs.

“I’m certain my least memorable song will be remembered more fondly and for more time than anything you ever do with your life will be,” the “Without Me” singer posted in response to a snarky comment of his. “Everything you say is more ‘whiny’ and ‘edgy’ than I was at any point on that album. But at least I had the excuse of going through chemo.”

On May 1 the 31-year-old, New Jersey-born singer released “The Great Impersonator: Deluxe,” containing five previously unreleased songs.

The two-year-old review came to light amid an online brouhaha over singer Olivia Rodrigo’s gushing weekend appearance on Fantano’s YouTube show, “The Needle Drop.” Social media mavens accuse the 40-year-old of skewing toward young female pop stars in his interviews, and they slammed Rodrigo for agreeing to speak with him.

Most reviewers greeted 2024’s “The Great Impersonator” as Halsey’s deep and vulnerable look into her very existence as she contended with lupus erythematosus and T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder, both potentially life-threatening chronic conditions she’d been diagnosed with in 2022. At the time she was touring with a “tiny little baby,” she told Paper magazine in 2024, noting that the latter diagnosis had arrived on her 28th birthday. Both are now in remission.

But what listeners heard as penetrating insight, Fantano brushed off as “main character syndrome” with “multiple indulgent cuts that sound like messy demos” and lyrics confirming she was “just hell-bent on making sure the audience knows just how dark and tortured and edgy she is,” he wrote in October 2024 on The Needle Drop. What he saw as Halsey’s “laundering untold amounts” of “childish angst and expecting us to sit here and wonder at it” landed on listeners as brutal self-honesty combined with crippling satire.

“I made this record in the space between life and death,” Halsey wrote on X when the album dropped.

Fantano gave it a “light to decent 1” out of 10.

Those stark differences, more than his critique of her art, seemed to trigger Halsey’s clapback after Fantano reshared a post by an X user who said he “didn’t really agree” with the critic’s take but was flummoxed that “there’s still discourse about it all this time later” and couldn’t understand why people were “still hung up over it.”

“If they’re more into the review than the album,” Fantano snarked in his repost.

“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,” Halsey wrote. “He validated that fear to thousands of women.”

She ended with, “That’s all, and good luck to this man!”

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