Watch The Strokes hit out at Elon Musk and billionaire class in ‘Spitting Image’ puppet-filled ‘Lonely in the Future’ video

The Strokes have shared a music video for ‘Lonely in the Future’, which sees them enlist the Spitting Image puppets and take aim at Elon Musk and billionaire class. READ MORE: The Strokes live in London: playful proof they’ve still got the goods The new visuals for the ‘Reality Awaits’ track take a similar approach to the iconic ‘Land Of Confusion’ music video from Genesis – reimagining the band members as puppets and criticising the social issues around them. Julian Casablancas and co. rejoined forces with director Warren Fu for the visuals, having previously worked with him on videos for ‘You Only Live Once’, ‘Taken for a Fool’ and ‘Under Cover of Darkness’, as well as some of the singer’s solo material. Together, Fu and The Strokes also work alongside Splitting Image – the company behind the hit show of the same name – to reimagine the band as puppets, as well as famous faces including Greta Thunberg, Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos and more. Taking aim at the billionaire class, the video depicts Musk and Jeff Bezos kissing, batting off Mark Zuckerberg with a taser, and later coming together to celebrate “the end of the world”. Murdoch is depicted as changing media headlin...