Halsey Inadvertently Calls For One World Trade Center To ‘Collapse’ Over A Mediocre Album Review

In a very appropriate bit of irony, a review of Halsey’s new album Manic by Pitchfork caused her to casually make a comment on Twitter that she wished the building in which the music magazine does business to “collapse.”

Unfortunately for Halsey, Pitchfork does its business on the 40th floor of One World Trade Center, and almost immediately after she made the wisecrack, people on Twitter were out in force carrying figurative pitchforks, skewering her for being insensitive.

The Pitchfork review of Halsey’s new album Manic said, among many things, “Though Manic features Halsey’s take on a handful of different genres — broody pop-R&B reminiscent of her early work; alt-rock-lite that is an aesthetic match to her persona; twangy country-pop sure to find a home on certain segments of pop radio — much of it has the same reflective surface and, at some points, the depth of an oil slick.”

Pitchfork gave it a score of 6.5 out of 10, and weren’t very complimentary about the album on Twitter.

In response, Halsey tweeted, then deleted, “Can the basement that they run p*tchfork out of just collapse already?”

When the 25-year-old singer realized what she had done she tweeted, then again deleted, “ABSOLUTELY deleted it upon realizing this. Was just trying to make a joke! Intended zero harm,” Halsey wrote in another since-deleted tweet. “Just figured I could poke at them back with the same aloof passive aggression they poke at artists with! Clearly a misunderstanding.”

Despite Halsey’s semi-apology, the internet, as it does, had already gotten rolling…

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