{"id":678786,"date":"2026-11-08T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/678786\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:40:08","slug":"the-strokes-lonely-in-the-future-video-skewers-billionaires-as-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/678786\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strokes&#8217; &#8220;Lonely in the Future&#8221; Video Skewers Billionaires As Muppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/the-strokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Strokes<\/a> followed up their <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/11\/the-strokes-join-snl-five-timers-club-with-dazzling-visuals-and-walton-goggins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">appearance on Saturday Night Live<\/a> this weekend by releasing a new music video for \u201cLonely in the Future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.consequence.net\/pages\/artist\/the-strokes\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy The Strokes on Vinyl\/CD at Consequence Shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Warren Fu and brought to life with puppets from Splitting Image, the company behind the British TV program of the same name and Genesis\u2019 \u201cLand Of Confusion\u201d video, the clip skewers the billionaire class and its influence over the media, war, and culture at large. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Rupert Murdoch all get the puppet treatment, with Musk and Bezos having their own subplot as lovers.<\/p>\n<p>The video also features appearances by creative visionaries whose work was misunderstood or underappreciated in their time, including Lou Reed, Stanley Kubrick, and Bach. Rick Rubin, who produced The Strokes\u2019 latest album, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/07\/the-strokes-reality-awaits-album-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reality Awaits<\/a>, music critic Anthony Fantano, and Greta Thunberg also make puppet appearances, as do The Strokes themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Strokes followed up their appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend by releasing a new music video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-678786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}