"Its very existence made the world a worse place": Tyga received 0/10 for his new album

The new album by Tyga, TARFACE$, received a rare 0/10 score from Pitchfork, and TMZ reports that the review focused mainly on the rapper's use of artificial intelligence.

"I'm not saying the album was created by AI; all I'm saying is that I personally managed to create a song that sounds exactly like TARFACE$," wrote critic Drew Millard. "It's slop pop, smug, complacent, and depressing. Its very existence made the world a worse place."

In an interview with Vibe earlier this month, Tyga admitted that he used artificial intelligence as a tool while working on the project. "And I know people are going to be mad at me for saying this, but that's where technology is going," he said. "It's no different from when Auto-Tune came out."

This statement came after an interview with People published a week earlier, in which Tyga presented the album's sound differently: "Everything we used was stuff they used in the 80s." He added: "Now everyone uses plugins, but we used a lot of the original hardware, and it really gave it that warm sound."

In the review, Millard also wrote about the lack of "human breath" in the album and the similarity to the song Rubberz by Phoenix Flexin, which, according to TMZ, some believe also contains elements of artificial intelligence. He also attacked the entire music industry, which he says encourages music created by AI to avoid paying writers and studio musicians.

According to Millard, the result in Tyga's case is an album that is "smug and complacent," a mix of 80s synth-pop and disco that was "pasted together by someone who, apparently, never cared to listen to a single synth-pop or disco album in their life." At least in terms of statistical achievement, Tyga has joined an exclusive club: artists who received a zero from Pitchfork.