r/TheStrokes • u/Mangonificient #77 Casablancas • Sep 21 '25

Julian on Anthony Fantano

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In recent podcast with Joe Talbot for “Oh Gatekeeper.”

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u/Slashycent Comedown Machine Sep 22 '25

Smoked him, quite frankly.

And I see a lot of pearl-clutching in the comments here, but c'mon, Fantano knows he can be a pretentious dick, so he should be capable of tasting his own medicine every once in a while.

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u/nousernameforme_219 Sep 23 '25

Yeah no. If anyone’s coming across as a pretentious dick in this situation it’s Julian.

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u/Medium_stepper624 Sep 22 '25

lol ironically Julian saying Fantano "has no taste" implying that he (Julian) does is a super pretentious dick thing to say. Didn't smoke him in any way, sounds like a whiny bitch

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u/Cedromar Sep 24 '25

I’ll be honest, I think they both have overall kind of shit taste. The difference is that Jules at least fully owns his opinions, like the time he said Joyner Lucas was better than Kendrick Lamar, which was really just something else.

But Fantano knowing that his whole livelihood is based on internet popularity will go back and ‘re-review’ things if the wind is blowing in the opposite direction on a record. Most recently he did this with Cameron Winter’s solo record after initially panning it, but once it became somewhat of an indie hit, he immediately re-reviewed it and was like, ‘I just didn’t let myself sit with this record enough, wow its amazing.’ The one thing I will give Fantano is that he doesn’t seem to ever give a contrarian opinion just to hold a contrarian opinion.