The Strokes Release Music Video for ‘Lonely in the Future’ Featuring Spitting Image Puppets

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The Strokes released a fantastical music video for “Lonely in the Future”, a song from their seventh album Reality Awaits. The video was directed by Warren Fu and produced by Partizan in association with Avalon Entertainment.

Official Video for “Lonely In The Future” by The Strokes
DIRECTED BY Warren Fu

The music video features incredibly exaggerated puppets from Spitting Image, the British satirical puppet show whose puppets also starred in the music video for the 1986 Genesis song “Land of Confusion”, which addressed similar societal issues.

Along the way, the puppets skewer billionaires, newsroom censorship and dismissive music critics before the video closes with a nod to the famous bone-and-satellite cut from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Genesis’ ‘Land of Confusion’ Music Video

‘Lonely in the Future’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’

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