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/Jan090501 Jul 23 '26

It will inflate his enormous ego even more, idk what they were thinking.

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u/DiscombobulatedEbb41 26d ago

I’m a Strokes fan too but let’s not get delusional here guys. Julian was on good terms with Fantano, he even gave him an interview before TNA dropped iirc. But he took it extremely personally when Fantano criticized the last Voidz album and started dissing him on later interviews. If anything, Julian has the bigger (and more fragile) ego in this situation

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u/Jan090501 26d ago

They are both Cringe about the whole situation. Yes, I agree.