"This has to be a joke”- Pitchfork hit with fan backlash following their mid ratings on BLACKPINK's Rose's 'rosie'

BLACKPINK's Rosé's first full-length album ‘rosie’ received mid ratings from media publication Pitchfork facing backlash online. On December 6, 2024, Rosé dropped ‘rosie’ on all major music services platforms worldwide garnering appreciation from fans and several listeners.

On December 19, Pitchfork published an article reviewing Rosé's twelve-track album where they critically analyzed the genre of songs and the BLACKPINK vocalist’s music style.

One of the excerpts from the review referring to Rosé’s Instagram post read:

“With this album, I hope you all feel that much closer to me.” But rosie lacks the sense of identity required to tell this story, boasting only dated pop references and a generic feeling of lingering heartache.”

The publication gave an overall rating of 5.5 out of 10, which received negative reactions from fans on social media. They disliked the review and found it underwhelming. To showcase their disappointment with Pitchfork’s review, fans voiced their thoughts on X.

“This has to be a joke..."- a fan said

Why should someone care about the opinion of annoying magazine? Especially if we know the real reaction of REAL critics lol. Millions of people love this album for a reason.”- a fan wrote

“I never trust pitchfork review anymore after all the absurd reviews they gave to other artists. so honestly I'm not surprised that they also gave rosie a low score. pitchfork is just ass at giving reviews.”- a user said

Fans believed that publication often gives low rates of good music and vice versa.

“This is a right of passage actually. The opposite of good is something Pitchfork rates high.”- a user said

“Pitchfork is the most unserious publication of all time.”- a fan commented

“Hasn’t pitchfork always been famous for giving bad reviews to good albums and suspiciously high scores to bad albums.”- a fan added

Netizens continued to criticize the Pitchfork review about Rosé's rosie.

“The way no body agreeing. Pitchfork just want interactions ignore them they're a joke.”- a fan added

“nobody takes them seriously anymore tbh.. like they have been giving all these great albums low scores to gain some interactions.”- another user said

“NO BODY cares abt Pitchfork and their stats, bc they have shown multiple times how biased they r! Like fr”- a user reacted

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BLACKPINK's Rosé's new music releases rank on several Billboard Music charts

BLACKPINK's Rose released her album ‘rosie’ with the title track ‘toxic till the end’, on December 6, 2024. On December 17, the titular tune entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at rank no. 90. Besides this, her album ‘rosie’ debuted at rank no. 3 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. This made the BLACKPINK vocalist, the first K-pop female solo artist to chart on two different Billboard charts simultaneously.

Furthermore, her pre-release single APT. Bruno Mars also spent 8 weeks on the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts at no. 1. APT. is now the longest-running song by a solo artist in the history of K-pop surpassing BTS’ Jungkooo's solo debut song Seven (2023).

The song ‘toxic till the end’ also entered the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts at no. 6 each. Furthermore, the title track has surpassed over 42 million streams on Spotify while the music video featuring Evan Mock has accumulated 48 million views on YouTube.

The BLACKPINK member's album rosie is available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube music, and other platforms for streaming.