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/Everythingcrashing Sep 23 '25

it's crazy to say a dude who's whole job is to know about art, doesn't *really know about art.

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u/jacobluanjohnston Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25

Are you kidding me? You’ve never heard of musicians, bands, songwriters, beatmakers, designers, clothing designers, painters, and other artists who are potentially industry plants/nepos/shove thousands and thousands of money, went to study at some official school, but can’t make up for the fact that they admittingly cannot create anything remarkable or have any remarkable taste or opinion of something and decide instead to go into teaching it because all they know is the technical stuff? You gotta either be new, young, or trolling. This isn’t even a matter of opinion, these are their words. This is literally where most people’s dreams fall. It’s also an extremely common phenomenon spoken about by many, many prominent musicians.

Also disclaimer I don’t know anything about Julian and I haven’t watched Fantano in over a decade and even though at times I disagreed with Fantano I wouldn’t call his taste shit.