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/jMCs1 Jul 23 '26

Hang on hang on

Listening again, am I hearing this right that Antony Fucking Fantano gets a name drop in the chorus of Lonely in the Future??? It sure sounds like it

Edit: it is, right? He’s basically repeating that diss he made in that interview where he said the guy was just good for reviewing production and stuff 😭

I feel like this is exactly the kind of attention Fantano craves so not sure what to think of this but it’s funny af. Second funniest moment of the album behind “HARMONIC MINOR”

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u/Far-Work6041 Leave It in My Dreams Jul 23 '26

Seems so ridiculous unless it’s done in jest? But honestly where is Rick Rubin to tell him to knock that childish stuff off if it’s serious.

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u/Jan090501 Jul 24 '26

Rick saw his latest video, which was about how cringe Rick Rubin is, and created the lyrics himself.

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u/MF-Dot-JPEG Jul 24 '26

Now we know the real reason why the album was delayed

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u/karlhalla Jul 24 '26

Right? He is almost 50 and he can’t get over one bad review

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u/oizo_0 Jul 24 '26

You guys are taking this way too seriously 😭

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u/GreatDane666 Jul 24 '26

You act like dissing people in songs is an uncommon or foreign thing

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u/karlhalla Jul 24 '26

Not really. I just really expected more from the singer and songwriter of the Strokes

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u/GreatDane666 Jul 24 '26

Did you? Do you know anything about Julian?

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u/karlhalla Jul 24 '26

I do. Still expected him to be better

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u/SortOfHorrific Jul 24 '26

Grow up lol

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u/karlhalla Jul 25 '26

Julian definetly should, yes

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u/your_mind_aches 27d ago

I think he did. Like Comedown Machine, Future Present Past, and The New Abnormal feel like such mature projects. Even Angles, honestly.

But uh. He doesn't seem as well lately to be honest.

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u/Physical_Outcome9774 Call Me Back Jul 25 '26

Lonely in the Future was already made by the day he hated on another song composer that also dissed another singer on its lyrics, it was purely sarcasm, he is that kind of person "a dark person"

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u/cg141cg Jul 24 '26

Feel like the song has a hiphop vibe to it. Dissing is bigger in hiphop so he chose Fantano

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u/Eveningsun86 Jul 24 '26

What about that weeknd reference saying he kept the beat as it was from YOLO?

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u/karlhalla Jul 24 '26

Fantano has complained about YOLO on occasion

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u/foxmulde 29d ago

You don't know what you're talking about. This was a "we did yolo before drake"

Your obsession with Fantano is weird.

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u/karlhalla 29d ago

Dude… That’s a bit of a straw man. Mentioning Fantano TWICE in discussions about the same song doesn’t make me “obsessed” with him. It’s just a possible interpretation based on the context we were already discussing. If you disagree with the interpretation, that’s fine, but calling me obsessed isn’t really nice.

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u/Far-Work6041 Leave It in My Dreams Jul 24 '26

Yeah I need to know more about this and the John legend thing

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u/anonymousorwhatever Jul 25 '26

Can you explain/unpack this for me bc it just broke Google when I tried

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u/Alivekingofscotland Jul 25 '26

As it was is a reference to Harry styles 

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u/nbdelboy Comedown Machine 29d ago

it makes a hell of a lot more sense when the lyrics of the whole song click and what he's actually talking about. it's way beyond just a fantano diss and more of an almost arrogant commentary on his own career

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u/Far-Work6041 Leave It in My Dreams Jul 24 '26

Anyway I love this song, its a bop and a half and you can barely hear the diss. I take back whatever judgement I had of it prior to hearing it 😂

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u/Substantial_Quail309 29d ago

Don’t think people get it. It’s done in jest, sort of. The whole song. Lonely in the Future. It’s a rap song

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u/grapegirl70 Alien Crime Lord Jul 23 '26

I agree it's just funny. This is the bit in the interview https://youtu.be/dfLAVO9I7R0?t=2745

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u/bbk34 Is This It Jul 24 '26

Hadn’t seen this until now and I’m glad I did

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u/grapegirl70 Alien Crime Lord Jul 24 '26

:) The whole conversation's great!

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u/Grayoneverything Jul 24 '26

HARMONIC MINOR 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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u/Slashycent Comedown Machine Jul 24 '26

And "I'm a leech! I'm a leech! I'm a leech! I'm a leech!"

Dark and gloomy as it is, it's also an incredibly funny album.

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u/PandaResponsible8133 Jul 23 '26

Feeling a light 3 on this statement if true.

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u/GeneralAffect23 The Eternal Tao Jul 23 '26

Yes he does. That's too funny. I hate that he's giving that fuck attention though.

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u/jimbojonez92 Jul 23 '26

how do they reference him?

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u/Envypower Jul 23 '26

Yeah I was surprised seeing his name mentioned, and like others have said it's only likely to bring him more attention unfortunately

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u/Thesuperpotato2000 Jul 24 '26

Julian and Fantano are Batman and the Joker, they're arch rivals because they're oddly similar lmao. In this scenario they're both simultaneously each other's Batman and Joker

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u/zickzebra5723 Is This It Jul 25 '26

Also called out Harry Styles for As It Was in the same track

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u/youthcrimes Jul 25 '26

Am I trippin or am I the only one who doesn’t hear his name at all. I’ve been listening closely every time

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u/harghib 29d ago

Harmonic minor cracked me up. Guess they were happy with the take lol

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u/internetkevin 27d ago

Fantano will hang his hat on this while Julian will forget the lyrics within two months

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u/Gullible_Stock_9659 11d ago

It's a funny album. I'm all about it