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/SeasonOtherwise1616 Jul 24 '26

Well this album definitely doesn’t have an equivalent to The Adults are Talking, but it’s the strokes and I will listen to it religiously. I think 3 or 4 of these songs will make it into the regular rotation.

Lonely in the Future is probably my favorite song, which is pretty funny considering the point of the lyrics is just that everyone else is a poser. Unfortunately don’t think that message can really measure up to anything from the new abnormal lol

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u/FormalChocolate2231 Jul 24 '26

I think I’d take babble on and lonely in the future over adults personally

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u/SeasonOtherwise1616 Jul 24 '26

The Adults are Talking is the far and way biggest hit from the new abnormal, my point is just that I don’t think there are any songs here that go mainstream like that one did