When I made this blog back in 2012, I had a plethora of resources to prove that the Strokes were Illuminati puppets. There seemed to be no end to the amount of symbolic pictures, music videos, TV performances, and album covers. It took 5 long weeks of hard work to sift through it all.

Now here we are one year later at the release of the Strokes’ 5th album, Comedown Machine, and… I’ve got nothing. No interviews (well, no interviews that are worthy of analysis), no promo pictures, no TV appearances, album art that’s incapable of conveying any symbolism because of the stark simplicity of it, and one music video that has no symbolism as far as I can see. All I have is lyrics. But before I get to the lyrics, I’d like to put forth an idea.

Last year, I started this blog in the middle of the recording sessions for Comedown Machine. (Nice timing, right? I swear I didn’t do that on purpose!) It quickly started a controversy among Strokes fans on Tumblr. The Strokes themselves were even reading the blog. All of the albums before this one (including Julian’s solo album) were steeped in Illuminati symbolism. There were always 1 or 2 (or 3) songs on each album that were obviously about the Illuminati. With this release, there is no symbolism, and only one song that could possibly be about the Illuminati (and even that isn’t certain). So where did all the symbolism go?

I have a suspicion that my blog and the controversy it created last year caused the Strokes to ditch the symbolism to avoid suspicion. Yes, I’m aware that it’s more than a little arrogant to think that my blog single-handedly caused a band to change their entire advertisement strategy, but I think it’s a real possibility.

With that being said, on to the lyrics.

Lyrics

There’s only one song I’m going to analyze, because the others seem to have no hidden messages. The song I will analyze is Call It Fate, Call It Karma. Let’s look at the first verse:

Close the door Not all the way We don’t understand We don’t understand So don’t you (?) remind me I don’t know a thing And some of us remember And some run out of place

Looking at this from a conspiracy angle, Julian is telling us that the Strokes don’t understand the bigger picture of how the Illuminati control the world. Or maybe they don’t fully understand their role as Illuminati puppets. “Close the door; not all the way” – he’s telling us this in secret, but he wants the message to get out. Because he’s a puppet (and thus, bound to silence), he can’t be the one to deliver the message, so I have to do it. “Some of us remember; and some run out of place” – I’m not sure about the meaning of this lyric, but it might mean that some of the Strokes remember being MK programmed.

Then the chorus kicks in and it sounds like a love song – which either means that I’m wrong in my analysis, or it’s a clever way to distract from the first verse so people don’t get suspicious about the song’s true meaning.

At the end of the song, Julian sings:

I’m in trouble, I’m in trouble…

In trouble with his marriage or in trouble because he’s an Illuminati puppet? That’s up to you to decide.

A couple more things I’d like to point out about this song: it’s track number 11 (an occult number that I’ve written about many times before), and the title Call It Fate, Call It Karma could be the Strokes’ reference to having a blog written about their ties to the Illuminati.

And that wraps up my analysis of Comedown Machine.