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"	Hi everyone, __thony ___tano here, the net'due south busiest music nerd.	"
―theneedledrop's intro

Anthony Fantano (built-in Oct 28, 1985 (1985-10-28) [historic period 36]), better known online as theneedledrop, is an American YouTuber and music critic and self-described equally "the internet's busiest music nerd". Fantano examines "rock, pop, electronic, metal, hip hop and experimental music" via video and sound reviews. The blog started in the autumn of 2007, with video reviews beginning in February 2009. The blog reviews albums and does a weekly roundup of singles released that week.

His reviews occasionally comprise brief skits, usually involving his alter ego Cal Chuchesta, a musically oblivious man portrayed as Fantano's roommate. He also runs a second aqueduct simply named fantano where he does rails reviews, discusses industry news, and more than varied simply withal music related content, and used to also run the at present-terminated thatistheplan, a calorie-free-hearted channel where he reviewed and discussed the latest memes and parodied internet culture.

The channel was voted as September 2011'southward On The Ascension competition winner, a program by YouTube. In October 2011, Fantano won the Across the Weblog award at the MTV O Music Awards.

Anthony Fantano

Early on life

Fantano grew up in Connecticut and spent his teenage years in Wolcott. As a child he had a want to become a cartoonist, stating he was a fan of The Simpsons and that he even so enjoys cartoons from today such as Hazard Time and Regular Show.

Fantano was introduced to independent music in the early 2000s which somewhen influenced him to beginning The Needle Drop. He has said, "I had a friend of mine on Livejournal–lol, I know–back in the early on 00s who used to do these long writeups about certain artists and she turned me on to a few that were pretty great. Information technology fabricated me want to do the aforementioned, share the musical experience on the internet. It didn't really plow into "reviews" until I tried doing YouTube in 2009, which I only did equally an experiment because my weblog and podcast were making much traction at the time."

Fantano attended Southern Connecticut Country University where he studied political science and journalism.

Fantano at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Fine art in Hartford, Connecticut in 2010

Career

Fantano started his career in the mid-2000s as a music director for the Southern Connecticut State Academy higher radio station. He stated, "I've e'er loved music, but working there got me turned into a lot of different styles, and got me pushing my tastes into different areas".

In 2007, Fantano started working at Connecticut Public Radio in which he hosted The Needle Driblet. That same year, Fantano likewise launched The Needle Drop in text reviews, eventually starting as video reviews in 2009. Fantano, at the time, was working on The Needle Drop, at the college radio station, and at a pizza eating place. In late 2011, Fantano decided to pursue The Needle Drop total-time.

In 2011, Fantano was interviewed at SXSW virtually the rise of music vlogging, along with Matt Galloway of the Rock It Out! Web log, and Michael Roffman, president and editor-in-principal of Consequence of Audio. In March 2011, he was featured in an article from The Guardian besides nigh the rise of music vlogging.

The Needle Drop

The web log The Needle Drop is a spin-off of a WNPR show of the same proper noun.

A recurring grapheme on The Needle Driblet is Anthony Fantano's fictional musically oblivious and socially bad-mannered roommate, Cal Chuchesta. Fantano, as Chuchesta, released a comedic mixtape, The New CALassic, on August 18, 2015, equally a gratis digital download. Fantano afterward reviewed the mixtape on Baronial 19, 2015, and rated information technology a light 3. At the end of the review Chuchesta took over the show in a fit of anger and claimed that Fantano had agreed to give the mixtape a 10 off camera. However, Fantano'southward rating withal stands.

On his 2d channel, Fantano volition occasionally upload interviews of musicians or notable people in the music industry that would be held alive on his Twitch. He has interviewed musicians such as Brockhampton, Rebecca Black, and Oliver Tree.

thatistheplan

Created in 2016, thatistheplan was dedicated to all things memes and net culture. He would interview many online meme figures such as Soph and Sam Hyde. Fantano started this channel every bit a parody to Behind The Meme. It is in this channel where Meme Review was born.

The channel had a decent run getting the attention of /pol/ until it was deleted in 2017 by Fantano himself later abiding demonitization and a hit piece past The Fader describing him equally alt-right. He and then denounced Soph in 2019 too as his former editor after his Christchurch comments. Sam Hyde would frequently troll him online afterwards.

Personal life

Fantano lives in Plainville, Connecticut. He is 3-quarters French Canadian and a quarter Sicilian. Fantano is a vegan, having grown into the diet since becoming vegetarian around 18–xix. He is married.

Notable reviews and ratings

Rating system

The blog rates albums and tracks on a scale from 0 to ten, with an accompanying adjective – either "light", "decent", or "strong" – for further qualification of its score. Occasionally he will do parody reviews of albums such as I'1000 Gay (I'1000 Happy) by Lil B, Built-in This Style by Lady Gaga, Unknown Expiry 2002 past Yung Lean, Mastermind by Rick Ross, Dark Sky Paradise by Big Sean, August 26 past Post Malone, Ether by B.o.B, Gold Cobra and Still Sucks by Limp Bizkit and Sketches of Brunswick East by King Gizzard and the Lizard Sorcerer. For an April Fools joke, he released two split up reviews of All Dearest'south Legal by Planningtorock, one giving it a 0/ten and one giving it a x/x. His actual rating for the album is unknown.

Discounting parody/joke reviews, Fantano has only given seven perfect x/ten ratings and 4 0/x ratings in his career and so far (seen in the tables below). The rapper Child Cudi is the simply artist to have received both of these ratings from Fantano, having earned a 0/10 on his 2015 album Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, followed subsequently past a x/10 on the 2018 anthology Kids Run across Ghosts from the eponymous musical duo comprised of Cudi himself and Kanye West.

In July 2016, a new rating dubbed "Not Skillful" was introduced, which is not based on a numeric score and is assigned to albums which Fantano does not feel like giving a proper negative review on. The first anthology to receive the rating was Desiigner'due south New English. He also did a near-unedited l-minute "Non Good" review of Angelic 2 the Core by Corey Feldman, in which he dubbed the album the worst of 2016.

In Feb 2021, another new rating dubbed "Dandy" was introduced. Like the "Not Good" segment, it is non based on a numeric score and is assigned to albums which Fantano feels are underrated simply does not want to requite a formal review on. Initially suggested by a tweet on Fantano's "Permit's Argue" segment on his side channel fantano, the get-go anthology to receive the rating was Steven Wilson's The Future Bites.

Additionally, Fantano also reviews albums that are considered "classic" music releases. These are reviewed without a rating on during a yearly segment known equally Classics Calendar week.

Modern albums with a perfect rating (10/10)

Year	Artist	Album	Nation
2012	Death Grips	The Money Store	Usa
2014	Swans	To Be Kind	United States
2015	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly	Usa
2018	Kids See Ghosts	Kids Run across Ghosts	U.s.a.
2018	Daughters	Yous Won't Get What Y'all Want	United States
2021	Spellling	The Turning Wheel	United States
2021	Lingua Ignota	SINNER GET READY	United States

Albums with a score of 0 (not including "NOT Skilful")

Year	Artist	Album	Nation
2015	Child Cudi	Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven	United States
2019	Chance the Rapper	The Big Day	United States
2020	Green Solar day	Father of All...	United States
2021	Tones and I	Welcome to the Madhouse	Australia

Awards

Album of the Year (2009–)

Twelvemonth	Artist	Album	Nation
2009	Fever Ray	Fever Ray	Sweden
2010	LCD Soundsystem	This Is Happening	United States
2011	Fleet Foxes	Helplessness Blues	United states
2012	Death Grips	The Money Store	United States
2013	Tim Hecker	Virgins	Canada
2014	Swans	To Be Kind	United States
2015	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly	U.s.a.
2016	Danny Chocolate-brown	Atrocity Exhibition	The states
2017	Male parent John Misty	Pure One-act	Usa
2018	Daughters	Yous Won't Get What You Want	United states
2019	Charli XCX	Charli	Britain
2020	Jessie Ware	What's Your Pleasance?	United kingdom
2021	Spellling	The Turning Wheel	United States

EP of the Twelvemonth (2010–)

Twelvemonth	Artist	EP	Nation
2010	The Tallest Human being on World	Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird	Sweden
2011	Nicolas Jaar	Don't Break My Honey	U.s.
2012	TNGHT	TNGHT	Canada United Kingdom
2013	Milo	Things That Happen At Day	U.s.
2014	Girl Talk and Freeway	Broken Ankles	United States
2015	FKA Twigs	M3LL155X	U.k.
2016	Charli XCX	Vroom Vroom	Uk
2017	Rina Sawayama	RINA	United Kingdom Nippon
2018	Aphex Twin	Collapse	United kingdom
2019	Kero Kero Bonito	Civilization I	United Kingdom Japan
2020	Tkay Maidza	Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2	Australia Zimbabwe
2021	Rachel Chinouriri	Fourº in Winter	Great britain

Unmarried of the Year (2010–)

Year	Creative person	Single	Nation
2010	LCD Soundsystem	"I Tin Change"	United states of america
2011	Fleet Foxes	"Helplessness Blues"	Usa
2012	Death Grips	"The Fever (Aye Yes)"	The states
2013	The Pocketknife	"A Tooth for an Eye"	Sweden
2014	Liars	"Mess on a Mission"	U.s.a.
2015	Kendrick Lamar	"The Blacker the Berry"	United States
2016	David Bowie	"Blackstar"	U.k.
2017	Father John Misty	"Pure Comedy"	United States
2018	Childish Gambino	"This Is America"	United States
2019	Alex Cameron	"Far From Built-in Once again"	Australia
2020	Mac Miller	"Practiced News"	U.s.a.
2021	Little Simz	"Introvert"	United Kingdom

Worst Album of the Yr (2015–)

Yr	Artist	Album	Nation
2015	Kid Cudi	Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven	U.s.a.
2016	Corey Feldman	Angelic ii the Core	United States
2017	XXXTentacion	17	United states of america
2018	Lil Xan	Full Xanarchy	Usa
2019	Doug Walker	Nostalgia Critic'due south The Wall	Usa
2020	Tory Lanez	Daystar	Canada
2021	Tones and I	Welcome to the Madhouse	Commonwealth of australia

Worst Song of the Twelvemonth (2016–)

Year	Artist	Song
2016	Le Tigre	"I'm With Her"
2017	Hopsin	"Happy Ending"
2018	Tom MacDonald	"Whiteboy"
2019	Lil Dicky	"World"
2020	Justin Bieber	"Yummy (State Remix)" (ft. Florida Georgia Line)
2021	Corey Feldman	"Rockin' Revolution"

Music Video of the Year (2010–2014)

Year	Creative person	Music Video
2010	HEALTH	"Nosotros Are Water"
2011	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	"Wing$"
2012	Dinosaur Jr.	"Watch the Corners"
2013	Arcade Fire	"Reflektor"
2014	Flying Lotus	"Ready err Not"

Anthology of the Decade (2010-2019)

Yr	Artist	Album	Nation
2015	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly	United States

Song of the Decade (2010-2019)

Twelvemonth	Artist	Vocal	Nation
2012	Death Grips	"Hacker"	United States

Worst Album of the Decade (2010-2019)

Year	Artist	Anthology	Nation
2016	Corey Feldman	Angelic 2 the Core	U.s.

Worst Song of the Decade (2010–2019)

Year	Artist	Song
2017	Hopsin	"Happy Ending"

Trivia

There are multiple running gags among Fantano'south fanbase, which include, but are non limited to;
- Controversial anthology reviews (most notably him giving a 6/10 to Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy). He has put "Y'all know this is just my stance, correct?" in his video descriptions partially due to this.
- Veganism
- Being portrayed as a Ridge wallet salesman
- Artists dying/being targeted after being given negative scores by Fantano
- The Best Teeth in the Game
- His love of Death Grips
- Being affectionately referred to as "Melon" by his fans due to his bald head, though it originated from an insult from a musical artist that Fantano gave him a score the creative person didn't hold with.
- His comments often over exaggerating his opinions on albums, normally following the format of "Melon, I empathise you lot didn't like the album but did yous actually take to say ..." followed by an outrageous claim, such as that Nippon should exist nuked a 3rd time due to Pink Guy's Pinkish Season.
- "Upworthy link", a misheard phrase in his outro which is meant to say "upward or the link".

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