Finneas O'Connell slammed Pitchfork's review of Billie Eilish's album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.
The 26-year-old American songwriter is the older brother of 22-year-old Billie and has co-written and produced many of Billie's songs.
Earlier this month, the brothers released a new alt-pop album that rocketed to the top of the charts in the UK and reached number two in the US.
The album received mostly positive reviews from critics, although Pitchfork gave it a mediocre score of 6.8/10, a rating that Finneas disputes.
Responding to a fan's comment on TikTok, the writer and producer slammed the review, writing, “There's nothing cool about writing a positive review of an album everyone loves. They have to have a perspective. They gave (Lana Del Rey's) Born to Die a 5.5. This is total haters on them.”
Billie herself has previously spoken about the agonizing creative process she went through to make what will be her third studio album.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1 earlier this month, she said she struggled to decide on the album's sound, explaining, “We officially start working on this album in October 2022 and we'd been kicking around ideas for months but they weren't really solidified and they weren't very exciting to us. We loved those ideas but we just didn't feel we could do them any more.”
She said she was able to overcome her writer's slump after she began writing the album's song “The Greatest,” saying, “Once I wrote that song, the whole album just flowed out at once.”