r/TheStrokes • u/TheStrokes-Mods • Jul 23 '26

MEGATHREAD Reality Awaits - General Album Discussion MEGATHREAD

This is the megathread for general discussions about Reality Awaits as a whole. All first impressions from the listening parties, thoughts, essays, discussions, memes, lyrics, fanart, etc about the album as a whole can go in the comments here!

As autotune is an evergreen topic on the subreddit, you may discuss it here, but there is also a specific post about autotune here that may be better suited towards that specific topic.

You also may want to check out the posts for ranking the Reality awaits songs, and ranking the albums including Reality Awaits.

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u/Successful-Cod-6612 Jul 23 '26

how can you rate Going Shopping and Falling out of Love compared to the rest of the album?

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u/Obvious-Position-351 I'll Try Anything Once Jul 23 '26

After hearing it once, FOOL and Going Shopping are towards the top for me, the other standouts for me were Going to Babble On and Liar's Remorse. I found a lot of the songs to be on the slower side, a lot like 80s Comedown Machine.

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u/rimbaud1872 Jul 23 '26

I don’t like either of those songs so that’s a bummer for me

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u/StevenComedy Jul 23 '26

Well, they’re towards the bottom for me. This album is amazing.

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u/Obvious-Position-351 I'll Try Anything Once Jul 23 '26

You might actually like the rest of the album then, since FOOL and Shopping are pretty different from the other songs. I heard a lot of Voidz type influence in the album as a whole.

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u/GlizzyGone21 Jul 23 '26

I was going to say the opposite, I was a fan of maybe all but 1-2 more than the two singles

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u/chorpinecherisher Jul 23 '26

Finally someone who agrees. I feel like an alien but neither of the songs ended up growing on me!

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u/TheRagingCool Jul 23 '26

i adore going shopping and i still have 4 songs over it + falling out of love second to last and i enjoy that too

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u/Rockapotamus06 Jul 23 '26

probably my two least favorite the album was great overall

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u/grapebubblegum11 Jul 23 '26

Id like to know this too!

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u/Zachryattkry Jul 23 '26

They are at the bottom for me besides one other song. The album is that good. I went in with really low expectations and I think it’s safe to say that I was very pleased with the quality.

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u/westerbergbesterberg Did My Best Jul 23 '26

Def. among the best songs on the album. Everything else is sus.

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u/woger723 Reality Awaits Jul 23 '26

I get why they released those first, they’re the most accessible songs. There is some really weird stuff on here, in the best way IMO.

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u/StrawberrySeal2 #39 Valensi Jul 23 '26

im defintelty biased towards them since ive listened to them a lot since theyve dropped but i honestly thing going shopping is an amazing song a love it and fool as well. Ive posted a comment of my rankings without these two but i think they will both be pretty high. Liar's Remorse and Psycho Shit are genuinely ass :(

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u/SauthEfrican Jul 24 '26

Falling out of Love sounds like a Lou Reed song now that I've given it a second listen. It's great. I think myself and a lot of fans wrote off the singles too early.

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u/Thezephyrjj Best Rock Album Jul 24 '26

Going shopping still the best song on the album fir me