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- Kanye West recently released his album “Donda”, with Pitchfork giving it a 6.0 rating.
- Pitchfork also recently gave a 6.5 rating to the cartoon character Peppa Pig’s second album.
- The official Peppa Pig account deleted a tweet acknowledging the comparisons between the two.
A tweet from the official Twitter account of Peppa Pig – the anthropomorphic British cartoon character – referred to a discrepancy between Pitchfork’s ratings for Peppa’s second album “Peppa’s Adventures: The Album” and “Donda” by Kanye West.
“Donda” was released on Sunday (and the artist later said his label, Universal Music, had done so without his permission.) Pitchfork, the music publication Condé Nast, gave the album a rating of 6, 0, editor Dylan Green calling it a “song data dump looking for a higher appeal.”
Pitchfork also recently reviewed Peppa Pig’s new album, giving it a rating of 6.5. Contributor Peyton Thomas called it a “charming and sure celebration of family, friendship and muddy puddles.”
Following the release of “Donda”, various popular tweets noted the deviation. Eventually, Peppa Pig’s official Twitter account joined in citing one of those tweets comparing reviews.
“Peppa didn’t need to host listening parties at the Mercedes-Benz stadium to get that .5,” the account wrote in a since-deleted tweet, followed by a microphone and muzzle emoji from pork. The tweet referred to West’s “Donda” listening party at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in July.
The tweet, which was deleted from the account several hours after it was posted on Wednesday, was accompanied by a quote-tweet from a post from user @seeohhellbeewhy juxtaposing screenshots of notes from both Pitchfork albums.
—DONDA abandoned (@didjesusdrop) September 1, 2021
A business email address listed on Peppa Pig’s official YouTube channel did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for the tweet to be deleted.
Peppa Pig has her own history of memes
The idea of Peppa Pig – a cartoon pig known to have developed British accents in American children – receiving a higher critical rating than a delayed job West worked on for weeks while living in a windowless room of the Mercedes-Benz stadium is inherently funny. There is also a deeper history of people online treating Peppa Pig like a pop icon.
Peppa Pig’s debut album, aptly titled “My First Album,” exploded online in July 2019, when people got too committed to making Peppa the new pop icon. People joked that Peppa’s album was going to blow Iggy Azalea, who was releasing music the same day, completely out of the water. (Azalea, to her credit, played with the joke.)
Eventually the joke got so far that people were actually streaming “My First Album” on Spotify, resulting in a distortion in the “Related Artists” section of the Peppa Pig page. Instead of recommending children’s artists like Teletubbies like it does today, Spotify showed that Peppa Pig listeners also liked artists like Rina Sayawama, Kim Petras, and LOONA, all of whom have significant LGBTQ fandoms.
A 2019 Vox article on the phenomenon called Peppa Pig an “LGBTQ Icon”.
—Pop Crave (@PopCrave) July 24, 2019
Since then, Peppa’s meme as a pop icon has stuck. There is even a Twitter account dedicated to comparing the reviews of Pitchfork to those of “Peppa’s Adventures: The Album”.
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