Falling in Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke has revealed that he lost his defamation lawsuit against music critic Anthony Fantano, but insists he knew he had no chance to win from the start.

Fantano, who runs the popular YouTube channel The Needle Drop, was sued by Radke last year after he posted a take-down video of the singer titled “This Guy Sucks” in 2023. In the video, Fantano gave a breakdown of Radke’s various legal issues, blasted his “shitty music,” and called him “quite possibly the biggest living piece of trash in the world of rock music right now.”

On Thursday (August 8th), Radke uploaded a video to his own YouTube channel titled, “I LOST MY LAWSUIT WITH ANTHONY FANTANO,” which was edited like a reaction piece to Fantano’s original clip. In his video, Radke admits he had no cha

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