1. Anthony Nicholas Fantano is an American music critic and internet personality who runs The Needle Drop, a YouTube channel with a tie-in website and Twitch streaming channel.
21 Facts About Anthony Fantano
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Self-appointed as "The Internet's Busiest Music Nerd", as a social media influencer Fantano discusses and reviews music from a variety of genres online.
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Anthony Fantano graduated from Southern Connecticut State University in 2008, earning a liberal arts degree concentrated in journalism, communications, and political science.
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Anthony Fantano started his career in the mid-2000s as a music director for the Southern Connecticut State University college radio station.
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In 2007, Anthony Fantano started working at Connecticut Public Radio, where he hosted The Needle Drop.
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In 2010, Anthony Fantano removed older reviews that contained music clips in order to avoid violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Anthony Fantano was offered an album review show on Adult Swim but declined.
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In October 2017, an article by Ezra Marcus in The Fader accused Anthony Fantano of promoting alt-right sentiments in videos on "thatistheplan".
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Anthony Fantano produced a video response calling the article a "hit job".
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Anthony Fantano disputed accusations of sympathizing with the alt-right and stated that the videos in question were satirical.
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In July 2019, Anthony Fantano made a cameo appearance in Lil Nas X's animated music video for the Young Thug and Mason Ramsey remix of "Old Town Road", appearing as a security guard for the Area 51 military installation.
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In 2022, Anthony Fantano was referenced on rapper Logic's track "LaDonda", from his studio album Vinyl Days.
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On September 15,2022, Anthony Fantano uploaded a video on his second channel jokingly claiming that Drake had sent private messages to him on Instagram, specifically recommending Anthony Fantano a vegan cookie recipe.
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Anthony Fantano later spoke about the exchange on an Instagram livestream, stating that the video was a "shitpost" and that he had no "hard feelings" toward Drake.
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Anthony Fantano garnered attention for his video on Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign's album Vultures 1 in February 2024.
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Anthony Fantano seems to have figured out a way to make some kind of living by disseminating his own criticism in the online age.
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Anthony Fantano is a vegan, having swapped to the diet after initially going vegetarian in his late teens.
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In March 2018, Anthony Fantano told Polygon that he is a "free speech purist".
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Anthony Fantano endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2020 United States presidential election.
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On July 24,2023, Anthony Fantano was named as a defendant in a lawsuit from video game developer Activision over a viral audio clip he had recorded on TikTok about pizza slices.
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Activision claimed that Anthony Fantano had asked for "substantial monetary damages" for the company's use of the audio in an advertisement for custom Crash Bandicoot trainers, or to be "prepared to defend a lawsuit".