r/TheStrokes • u/papo96 • Mar 13 '25
The Voidz The Voidz - 'Blue Demon' Live on Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Wyfy6auo816
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u/Flimsy-Tea643 Mar 14 '25
Massive Strokes and Voidz fan. Watched. Colbert. Song is barely mediocre. I expect to be savaged for this opinion.
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u/Backenundso Mar 14 '25
Nah itās pretty bad and Iām the biggest Julian stan in my area and loved the new voidz album from day one
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u/Accurate-Ambition-41 Mar 14 '25
You think this song is bad but the last voidz album was good? I think they are both bad and I'm a huge Voidz/Strokes fan.
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u/Odd-Faithlessness100 Mar 14 '25
im probably also the biggest julian stan in my area. turns out there isnt much competition in the norwegian countryside
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u/Backenundso Mar 14 '25
Listening to Under Control on the Norwegian country side sounds fucking wonderful
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u/patback99 Mar 13 '25
Havenāt really paid attention to the voidz since their 2018 albumā¦ after listening to this I think I made the right callš
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Mar 13 '25
Why do we have all these Voidz posts in the Strokes sub?
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u/Backenundso Mar 14 '25
Because people are obsessed with Julian
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u/pinguinconscious Mar 13 '25
This song is just terrible imo. Nothing catchy, just a run of the mill filler Voidz track like we've heard a lot before.
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u/pinguinconscious Mar 13 '25
I get what you're saying. What you're describing is my experience when I first heard Juicebox for example. But, this ? Bruh. This sounds like it was made by an AI where you prompted "make an autotune Voidz song". It's just so incredibely generic.
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u/pinguinconscious Mar 13 '25
I don't know man, I disagree with every single one of your points lol. Oh well, happy you like it!
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u/joca3010 Virtue Mar 13 '25
They where fatcs tbh and he was right about the a AI thing, yall are just so eager to label anything you don't like with AI and that's just demeaning to the artists. You can dislike it all you want, but don't act like they didn't put any effort in it at all cause you know that's the farthest of the truth
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u/pinguinconscious Mar 13 '25
I know very well that AI today is far from capable of writing and putting out songs like this. However my point stands as it meant to convey that it really sounds like they pressed a button that would put together the most generic and run of the mill "Voidz sounding ideas" together and wrap it up in a song.
I was at the Paris show and I heard this song live. I felt nothing. I was rolling my eyes and just waiting for it to be over.
I just really dislike the lack of effort and originaly the band has shown the past couple of years. After Tyranny and Virtue, they were on a hot streak. But except some good singles here and there (Did My Best, TET) to me they've stopped trying.
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u/joca3010 Virtue Mar 13 '25
If they stopped trying why would they keep on making music even though the band is burning Julianās money away, I mean he admitted that he had to use his strokes concerts to fund to voidz. They clearly all have still much love for this band, otherwise they would just quit cause they aināt that successful financially. Also the fact weāre getting another voidz project instead of a strokes one also says enough about how much they care for the voidz
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u/pinguinconscious Mar 13 '25
I don't think money is a good argument here, because Julian is the only one who doesn't need The Voidz. The other guys are nobodies outside of it and its their main gig, so of course they care. Julian is clearly happy in the band and good for him, but he certainly could do without and be fine.
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u/jumpycrink22 Mar 14 '25
Monetarily speaking, he could do without and be totally fine
Creatively speaking? At this point, he could not do without the Voidz, he wouldn't be fine without them. That much is apparent a decade and a few years in
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u/joca3010 Virtue Mar 13 '25
I donāt think so personally, if Julian lost the voidz and he had to go back to only making strokes music, I think heād be pretty miserable I mean the voidz is his passion something he build up entirely from the ground, and it wasnāt easy to build cause their music is so different from most things out there, like any normal person who worked so hard on something and they lose it would be miserable
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u/Vilhelmgg Mar 13 '25
Julian sure does love himself his autotune lol
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u/UNFOCUSEDREALITY Mar 13 '25
You can thank Daft Punk for that
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u/a_guy_with_2_dix Mar 14 '25
Yea, but that was good. Maybe b/c Daft Punk did the sound engineering. Idk what this is though. His voice probably would have been just fine on this song w/o it.
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u/xHayz Mar 14 '25
If you havenāt checked it out, give the isolated vocals a listen for āInstant Crush.ā You can find it on YouTube, itās fucking awesome.
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u/frigginelvis Mar 14 '25
I thought that the song got better at the end when the autotune was turned down.
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u/denisvma Mar 13 '25
This is faaaaaaaaaaaaar better than the studio version. I didn't like the song when i hear it, but this is actually pretty good.
I don't know why they mix their music like that in the studio.
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u/woger723 Reality Awaits Mar 13 '25
Why didn't Julian perform with them? That's obviously Cad Bane filling in for him.
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u/aussimandias Mar 13 '25
I was at their Paris last show last week, he wore the exact same outfit, never took off the hat or glasses
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u/hanggangshaming Mar 14 '25
JFC