Nearly seven years ago, the Internet was on fire with people hating The Wall.
Not Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera, but the video review that Doug Walker, aka The Nostalgia Critic, put out about the 1982 cinematic adaptation, Pink Floyd—The Wall. In both the video (starring Slipknot's Corey Taylor and his son, Griffin) and the companion album, Walker skewered the Wall, calling it an "arthouse ego trip" with parody song titles like "Comfortably Dumb" and "Waiting for the Point."
The backlash was immediate. A cottage industry of video essays blasting Nostalgia Critic's The Wall popped up (there's a whole YouTube playlist of them here). Perhaps the most vocal critic was Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop. Fantano not only dubbed the Nostalgia Critic's The Wall album "Not Good," his version of zero score, but he also named it his Worst Album of 2019.
So, it's fitting that Fantano spoke with the musical mind behind Nostalgia Critic's The Wall: Rob Scallion.
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"I love The Wall. I love it," said Scallion in the interview that Fantano uploaded to his personal YouTube channel last week.
Rob's best known as a music YouTuber with over 2.6 million subscribers. He gained popularity from playing covers of metal songs on non-traditional metal instruments (like banjos and shovels). He is also the musician who recreated the music of Pink Floyd's The Wall for the Nostalgia Critic review.
Scallon said that his role in Nostalgia Critic's "The Wall" doesn't mean he's a massive Pink Floyd hater—quite the opposite.
"I grew up with The Wall," he said. "I was one of those kids who, when I was 12, would watch The Wall with my friends and be like, what does it all mean? And it was just like this mythical album."
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Scallon, who's married to Nostalgia Critic alum Tamara Chambers, first worked with Doug Walker in 2014 to make the song "F**king Love Christmas." In exchange for the song, Walker gave all the iTunes and streaming royalties to Scallon, which amounted to $1,400 in the first month (which came at a time when he really needed the money).
So, Rob was game when Doug approached him about doing a project on The Wall.
"I think he was expecting me to just like, strum a guitar for the whole thing. But I was more into doing the full songs and learning the full songs," he explained. Scallon deconstructed Pink Floyd's The Wall and did his best to faithfully recreate it, though his focus was more on getting the music right than on what Doug was saying in the lyrics.
"I didn't—and this is probably ignorance on my side—but I was like, 'Oh, this is just like a silly thing,'" he said on making the parody album. "I'm not actually going out and doing, 'I'm anti The Wall. I'm anti Pink Floyd.' Like, 'I want to get in a fight with Roger Waters!' or something. I never interpreted it that way, which is maybe an ignorance on my side."
"And that's something I've learned too, is when you go aboard someone else's project, you kind of inherit the culture around it," he added. "And it seems like you're co-signing on it, when, for me, it was just kind of a gig."
Why were so many people mad at the Nostalgia Critic? As Fantano brought up in the interview, Walker's take on The Wall seemed to ignore the album's context. Roger Waters wrote the rock opera about former member Syd Barrett's deteriorating mental condition and his own childhood, along with his growing feelings of isolation and alienation. And for many, Pink Floyd is held in religious reverence for bringing high art to classic rock, so Walker's seemingly thoughtless mockery (his parody of "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2" is called "We Need More Victimization") rubbed people the wrong way.
Pink Floyd performing on stage - The Wall stage show.Photo by Rob Verhorst on Getty Images
The intense backlash to this project felt like "a punch to the gut," said Scallon. "Once it came out, there was this [realization]. 'Oh, I've never been on this side of the Internet before. I've never had something kind of blow up or have videos of millions of views talking about how terrible [my work] is. And it was concerning. Is this now something I hear about all the time for the rest of my life?"
"I remember seeing Doug at a wedding, like, a month after," he said. "And he was like, 'Hey man. I'm sorry. Can I get you a drink?' He and the Nostalgia Critic crew are just so used to that type of thing. It was just new to me to have such intense criticism on something I've done."
Nearly a decade later, all parties have seemingly moved on. Walker continues to make videos as The Nostalgia Critic, and people keep watching (his Jan. 28 review of The Sandlot has over 116k views). He also detailed his response to the criticism in a 2021 interview with Double Toasted, explaining that he "tried to be experimental" by pairing his experience of watching Pink Floyd: The Wall as a child with his "cynical" viewpoint as an older man.
Fantano remains "the Internet's busiest music nerd" through The Needle Drop and his Twitch streams.
Scallon continues to pursue music on YouTube and beyond (in 2024, he released Crowded Rooms, an album that marries Midwest Emo and metal).
And there are still content creators who make video responses to Nostalgia Critic's " The Wall, discovering it the same way that Doug Walker rediscovers a piece of '80s and '90s pop culture.
"It's been out six years and somehow, people are still making videos about it, and people are still streaming it," remarked Scallon. However, he's not too mad about it, especially since he gets the streaming royalties. "In 2025, the streaming revenue for that was $1,400. Now that it's essentially been paying my phone bill for six years, I feel differently about it."
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