""Having been told previously by music journalists that it was already 'album of the year', when the controversy broke I was instructed by the same people to admit 'ignorance' and apologise or face a drop in scores. These messages were passed on to me by my then record label, Ninja Tune. I have the receipts. This is not journalism or criticism, it's authoritarianism. The record did indeed suffer revised scores across the board and was left off the end-of-year lists.""
""It wasn't just upsetting but also very frightening to see how the whole of the music media, in tandem, were able and willing to punish a work of art for the sake of activism. To say I'll never be the same again is an understatement. Props to The Guardian for not changing the five-star score. But the piece itself is rotten to the core and the record was never again mentioned by them. I really hope one day that changes.""
Róisín Murphy faced backlash in 2023 after sharing a Facebook post claiming "big pharma" was giving "mixed-up little kids" puberty blockers and describing the hormones as "f**ked". Puberty blockers are medications that halt certain effects of puberty for transgender people under 18 and are described by the NHS as physically reversible. Murphy highlighted The Guardian's five-star review of her album Hit Parade while saying the controversy prompted music journalists and her record label, Ninja Tune, to instruct her to admit 'ignorance' and apologise or face a drop in scores. She said those messages led to revised scores, removal from end-of-year lists, and an orchestrated media punishment she called authoritarian, describing the experience as frightening and leaving her changed.
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