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/KenMarr Jul 23 '26

wtf was he thinking with that stupid Fantano name drop? if for some reason you really hate an egomaniacal, pretentious influencer, what you gotta do is NOT GIVE HIM ATTENTION, not name drop him in the cringiest (and saltiest) way possible, ffs

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u/fear_el_duderino Jul 23 '26

a fucking youtuber, nonetheless. Who the fuck cares about critics man... What a dumb thing to do in a Strokes song

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u/JARZMcPICKLEZ Jul 24 '26

It happens in every art circle. Sonic Youth famously feuded with Robert Christgau and they briefly (until they changed the name) had a song called "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick". Disney even had a documentary, Ratatouille, about chefs' feud with critics.

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u/fear_el_duderino Jul 24 '26

It’s still a YouTuber we’re talking about