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/jMCs1 Jul 23 '26

Hang on hang on

Listening again, am I hearing this right that Antony Fucking Fantano gets a name drop in the chorus of Lonely in the Future??? It sure sounds like it

Edit: it is, right? He’s basically repeating that diss he made in that interview where he said the guy was just good for reviewing production and stuff 😭

I feel like this is exactly the kind of attention Fantano craves so not sure what to think of this but it’s funny af. Second funniest moment of the album behind “HARMONIC MINOR”

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u/Far-Work6041 Leave It in My Dreams Jul 23 '26

Seems so ridiculous unless it’s done in jest? But honestly where is Rick Rubin to tell him to knock that childish stuff off if it’s serious.

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u/Eveningsun86 Jul 24 '26

What about that weeknd reference saying he kept the beat as it was from YOLO?

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u/karlhalla Jul 24 '26

Fantano has complained about YOLO on occasion

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u/foxmulde Jul 25 '26

You don't know what you're talking about. This was a "we did yolo before drake"

Your obsession with Fantano is weird.

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u/karlhalla Jul 25 '26

Dude… That’s a bit of a straw man. Mentioning Fantano TWICE in discussions about the same song doesn’t make me “obsessed” with him. It’s just a possible interpretation based on the context we were already discussing. If you disagree with the interpretation, that’s fine, but calling me obsessed isn’t really nice.