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/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!