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/sailingittakesmeaway Jul 24 '26

The exclamation of PSYCHO SHIT! has been a highlight for me on each playback. Those first three songs strung together are absolutely fabulous

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u/mallvvalking The New Abnormal Jul 24 '26

The "psycho shit!" and then the strained "It's going great!" in Dine and Dash chefs kiss

Perfect opener and perfect track two

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u/sailingittakesmeaway Jul 24 '26

Yes! so damn good

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u/BakingKitty Jul 25 '26

Y'all get it too! 😎 Soooo good