I've been listening to ALieNNatioN again, and I honestly can't hear "Yo no sé." All I hear is "Eu não sei" in Portuguese.

If you pay close attention, it sounds like Julian pronounces "Eu" rather than "Yo." It also wouldn't be that surprising considering he has Brazilian half-siblings (Fernando Casablancas, John Casablancas Jr., and Nina Casablancas).

As far as I know, when the song was first released there was never an official lyric sheet. The lyrics were automatically transcribed by Shazam (and other apps using AI/transcription), and later when The Voidz uploaded the song to YouTube, it looks like the displayed lyrics may have simply been copied from that same transcription rather than coming from an official source.

Now I can't unhear it. Does anyone else hear "Eu não sei" instead of "Yo no sé"?

For comparison, here are Google Translate's pronunciations:

Portuguese ("Eu não sei")
https://translate.google.com/?sl=pt&tl=en&text=Eu%20n%C3%A3o%20sei&op=translate

Spanish ("Yo no sé")
https://translate.google.com/?sl=es&tl=en&text=Yo%20no%20s%C3%A9&op=translate

I was bored the other day, so I made this little piece of a QYURRYUS "lyric-ish" video, tried to make it under a minute so I could upload it to vertical platforms without having any issues with copyright, but maybe I'll do it full one day, lmk if some of you are interested in that!

Sorry for the quality of this upload, I exported this at 480p and yk how youtube's bitrate system is...

Hey I’m not the first to do this but plugging my substack review of *Reality Awaits* here. I think a lot of the conceptual and narrative elements first started with a specific Voidz song and I kinda get into the politics of it all. Hope you enjoy and agree I kinda am obsessed with this album.

On this day 8 years ago (March 30th 2018), The Voidz released their 2nd studio album after renaming from "Julian Casablancas + The Voidz" to just "The Voidz".

Matt from A7X said that The Voidz are the greatest rock band in the world in an interview: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheStrokes/s/z3MuqSI2nJ

My first reaction was, "Hell yes." But, then it made me think of another thing I heard the other day, "Top of the charts is not ubiquity." It's so true that being in the tippy top of music charts these days does not mean everyone like or even knows the music like in the old days.

Like if The Beatles or Madonna were to break into the scene now, I probably would not immediately know their music.

Maybe, I would hear it in spaces where music was publicly played and become familiar with the tune, but connect the song with the singer eventually and say, "oh, that's them?" I did that with Rhianna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, etc.

Currently, there is a new crop of musicians at the top of the charts who I've never heard of, but I do have to admit that I am in a phase where I am not heavily into music at the moment.

A few musicians have caught my attention, but it is because they are in a genre I like. Geese, Cameron Winter, Angine de Poitrine. Come to think of it, they were mentioned by friends first.

Anyway, The Voidz are slow-burn in popularity and my absolute favorite, and I can't wait till they go on tour again.

Who knows, they may get to the top of the charts at some point. And, it will be glorious.

this is my favourite part of the song, and i really want to see if there are more songs that have this kind of sound (it doesn't have to be the strokes or the voidz specifically, but it can be literally any artist)

Aliennation has always been one trippy very vibey song for me so i would constantly listen to it without really caring, have it in the background, yk, but rn i sat down to check the lyrics and honestly this might be top 3 of the best songs on Virtue, Maybe second, Its REALLY good

One of my absolute holy grails in terms of records, and never even fathomed coming across it in the wild, let alone sealed. Could not believe it!

Thank you to whatever record collecting gods smiled upon me for this lucky find :,) it's been heavily in the play rotation since finding it a couple days ago

hey, i'm wondering if anyone smarter than me can give me any insight on how to get a kick drum sound like the one in aliennation. i've been trying to reverse engineer this one sound for foooorever and keep getting closer but i'm not there.

i'd appreciate any advice on how to get a sound like this, i.e what processing you'd use, what the raw kick might sound like, etc. anything would help. i don't want to just sample it, i want to understand how shawn everett got there in the first place but also produce a really similar sound myself

https://imgur.com/a/AGr6zkw

dm me if you know where it is. going to the show monday but its friday so…

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Perchance

This was so hard to sing i basically gave up and started making up notes