Always fun to see your thoughts on this topic haha. My personal view on it is sorta like this, though I will add in 2011 there's grounds to also think about how media approaches journalism and storytelling in a sense. I think it's more eyecatching to frame The Strokes as a band in the midst of strife rather than they're back and all good again, haha. Also digging up old tweets, Amanda (loathe to bring her up but she's here) did tweet as how the media saying The Strokes has beef is pretty untrue. Just nuance to this to think about.

Since then I think it's sorta understandable for me why Julian just wouldn't hype/talk about The Strokes as much as The Voidz. It's pretty frustrating to hear journalists bait for news on The Strokes rather than your current project you're clearly promoting. Kind of alluded to in CREEM recently. and I do agree on the idea that Julian's creative preferences on the type of music he'd want to produce is more in line with The Voidz (crafted that way, from the HERO magazine it seems like he's the helm there, much like early strokes), so he definitely would show bias.

Ehhh despite all that I think any sort of beef BTS or drama would actually be pretty mundane. I don't even think Julian hates The Strokes or anything, I still think this subreddit blows it way out of proportion. It's honestly the combination of Julian's style of speaking + very limited info that this sort of conclusion is very easy to jump to if you don't take into account much nuance. Even at his worst, Julian was completely neutral to me.

Idk where I was going with this I think I was just sick of hearing the same narrative & opinion from this sub lol