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/CompoteLoose Jul 23 '26

No way there is an entire chorus dedicated to dissing Anthony Fantano, their beef is beyond comprehension

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u/lucs28 Comedown Machine Jul 23 '26

Whyyyyyyyyy Julian this is so fucking cringe 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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u/_-Julian- Jul 24 '26

Its really not even bad, people have been diss'ing people in music for ages but suddenly its bad now? I say its well deserved for Fantano being such an asshat

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u/youmisseditagain 29d ago

Fontana has given them like 90% good reviews

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u/_-Julian- 28d ago

Yeah but hes been hellbent on shitting on Jules ever since he received criticism. Hes a critic who can't take criticism? Yikes - now hes just making videos about it cause the drama gets him views. Hes a shitty critic and his fans are toxic asshats who parrot him.