Anthony Fantano Wants to Give the Perfect Interview. Apparently, Judging Everyone Else’s Music Wasn’t Enough.
By Tony Hicks | November 10, 2026 The Internet's Busiest Music Nerd Has Found Another Way to Stay Busy There is something beautifully ridiculous about a professional music critic announcing that he intends to give the perfect interview. Not a good interview. Not an interesting interview. Not even an unusually insightful conversation that might reveal something meaningful about the creative process. No, we're aiming for perfection now. Because apparently, after spending years dissecting other people's artistic achievements, the next logical step is to create an interview format whose very name practically invites the entire internet to start grading it. Enter Anthony Fantano, the internet's busiest music nerd, a man who has turned listening to albums, expressing opinions, and assigning numerical scores into something resembling a small media empire. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Fantano is launching a new long-form interview series following a conversation with O...
