History Music / LostInTheNewReal

* CoverVersion: "Welcome To The Machine" is a cover of Music/PinkFloyd's album ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" is a Music/BlueOysterCult adaptation, "The Battle Of Evermore" is a cover from ''Music/LedZeppelinIV'' by Music/LedZeppelin, "Some Other Time" is covered from ''Music/IRobot'' by Music/TheAlanParsonsProject and "I'm The Slime" a cover from Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/OverNiteSensation''.

* DownerEnding:

--> ''Am I only? A MACHINE?''

* ManInTheMachine

* MotherNatureFatherScience: "Let me tell you about mama...Our only Mama... Mama Nature." Voight Kampff and Mr. L, the two faces of science, are both male.
* TheMultiverse: "Where Pigs Fly." It would seem that we live in a multiverse after all,

* QuestioningTitle: "So There Is No God?"

* ShoutOut: Voight Kampff is presumably a reference to either ''Film/BladeRunner'' or ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'', both of which have an empathy test used to detect replicants by the same name. The fact that actor Creator/RutgerHauer speaks the part is an extra hint, as he played a part in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/RutgerHauer provides narration during "Voight Kampff".

* SpecialGuest: Creator/RutgerHauer provides narration during "Voight Kampff". On the Music/{{Ayreon}} album ''Into the Electric Castle'' he also did the narration.

!! ''Lost in the New Real'' provides examples of:

* CerebusSyndrome: Although the album starts off with catchy light-hearted music, with songs like Pink Beattles in a Purple Zeppelin, it quickly becomes apparent that the future isn't a happy one. Still, the songs remain cheery enough until the halfway mark when the music gets foreboding and introspective. This culminates in Lost in the New Real where the song is dark, cynical, and ultimately about Mr. L resigning himself to dying again.

-->Now I know this is not real
-->I can't trust the way I feel
-->I'm alive but in a dream
-->Am I only? A MACHINE?

* ShoutOut: Voight Kampff is presumably a reference to either ''Film/BladeRunner'' or ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'', both of which have an empathy test used to detect replicants by the same name.
* TheMultiverse: "Where Pigs Fly." It would seem that we live in a multiverse after all,

* ZeroGSpot: "The Space Hotel" mentions making love in zero G.

''Lost in the New Real'' is a ConceptAlbum released in 2012 by Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen. It is a departure from his {{Ayreon}} project, which spans several albums and features dozens of guest musicians, as all main vocals are performed by Arjen himself. The story may have some loose connection to the overarching plot of Ayreon, in any case (see tropes below).

* WorldBuilding: Pretty much the point of disc 2 on the album.

* CrapsackWorld: Overpopulation, a cataclysm brought on by a massive eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano, and society appears to have wedded Orwell and Huxley's visions into one. Seems like a crapsack world, or possibly a CrapsaccharineWorld

* HeyItsThatVoice: Voight Kampff, Mr. L's shrink and the story's narrator, is voiced by RutgerHauer, of Film/BladeRunner fame.

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* DigitalPiraceyIsEvil: Played with. In the present day, piracy is described in an unmistakably negative tone. However, the strictly-controlled policing of the internet by the E-Police if anything is seen as even worse. Ultimately, the message seems to be that file sharing and hacking are unavoidable and that both extremes are equally detrimental.

* ShoutOut: Voight Kampff is presumably a reference to either ''Film/BladeRunner'' or ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'', both of which have an empathy test used to detect androids by the same name.

* MindScrew: Like Ayreon before it, Argen continues the proud tradition of screwing with our heads.

Now I know this is not real

I can't trust the way I feel

I'm alive but in a dream

Am I only? A MACHINE?

* DigitalPiraceyIsevil: Played with. In the present day, piracy is described in an unmistakably negative tone. However, the strictly-controlled policing of the internet by the E-Police if anything is seen as even worse. Ultimately, the message seems to be that file sharing and hacking are unavoidable and that both extremes are equally detrimental.

AlternateContinuity: It appears the album takes place in the future society frequently alluded to in Ayreon. The protagonist seems to be the same MR. L from 01011001 and the future does show signs of impending collapse. However, it's ambiguous enough that it could go either way and seems to leave it up to the listener to decide. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Mr. L and his Shrink discuss the possibility of alternate universes.

* Cyberpunk: The society as a whole has this feeling to it.

GainaxEnding:

* WorldBuilding: Escentually what the second disc is about.

* MindScrew: Or am I only... a machine...

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: "When I'm a Hundred Sixty-Four" has a tinge of this.

* CerebusSyndrome: Although the album starts off with catchy light-hearted music, with songs like Pink Beattles in a Purple Zeppelin, it quickly becomes apparent that the future isn't a happy one. Still, the songs remain cheery enough until the halfway mark when the music gets foreboding and introspective. This culminates in Lost in the New Real where the song is dark, cynical, and ultimately about Mr. L resigning himself to dying again.

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* CerebusSyndrome: Although the album starts off with catchy light-hearted music, with songs like Pink Beattles in a Purle Zepalon, it quickly becomes aparent that the future isn't a happy one. Still, the songs remain cheery until the halfway mark when music gets bruding and interspective. This comulinates in Lost in the New Real where the song is dark, cynical, and ultimeatly resigned to dying.

''Lost in the New Real'' is a ConceptAlbum released in 2012 by Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen. It is a departure from his {{Ayreon}} project, which spans several albums and features dozens of guest musicians, as all main vocals are performed by Arjen himself. The story may have some loose connection to the overarching plot of Ayreon, in any case (see tropes below).

* DarkerAndEdgier: A DownplayedTrope in the case of this album, steering a little away from the bleak outlook of the ''Ayreon'' albums. It certainly isn't ''cheery'', given the DownerEnding and CrapsackWorld. However, "Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin" is a psychedelic, reminiscent mash-up of Mr. L's favorite music. And despite the cataclysm, it would appear humanity has survived and flourished regardless.
* DownerEnding:

* HeyItsThatVoice: Voight Kampff, Mr. L's shrink and the story's narrator, is voiced by RutgerHauer, of BladeRunner fame.

* PopulationControl: In the future, parents will have to apply for a permit in order to procreate. And WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture.

* {{Sexbot}}: "Don't Switch Me Off" - it's not clear whether the woman is a physical bot, or a virtual simulation. In any case, she can be [[IncrediblyLamePun turned on]].
* TheMultiverse: "Where Pigs Fly." It would seem that we live in a multiverse after all,

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: "When I'm a Hundred Sixty-Four" has a tinge of this.

* Sexbot: "Don't Switch Me Off" - it's not clear whether the woman is a physical bot, or a virtual simulation. In any case, she can be [[IncrediblyLamePun turned on]].

''Lost in the New Real'' concerns a 21st century man known as Mr. L, who is awoken from cryogenic sleep several hundred years in TheFuture. He is welcomed by Voight Kampff, the "hard-headed shrink" who has been assigned to help Mr. L adjust to the strange world he now belongs to. Technology has progressed to a point where what is real and what is virtual reality is nearly or completely indistinguishable from one another. The album concerns itself primarily with themes and motifs running throughout the ''Ayreon'' albums: alienation, dream sequences, technology versus nature, etc.

* : Any tropes in which the show is already cited can be retrieved from the Wiki if you text-search in a separate window on the program name.

"Lost in the New Real" is a ConceptAlbum released in 2012 by Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen. It is a departure from his {{Ayreon}} project, which spans several albums and features dozens of guest musicians, as all main vocals are performed by Arjen himself. The story may have some loose connection to the overarching plot of Ayreon, in any case (see tropes below).

"Lost in the New Real" concerns a 21st century man known as Mr. L, who is awoken from cryogenic sleep several hundred years in the future. He is welcomed by Voight Kampff, his "hard-headed shrink" who has been assigned to help Mr. L adjust to the strange world he now belongs to. Technology has progressed to a point where what is real and what is virtual reality is nearly or completely indistinguishable from one another. The album concerns itself primarily with themes and motifs running throughout the "Ayreon" albums: alienation, dream sequences, technology versus nature, etc.

!! "Lost in the New Real" provides examples of:

* HeyItsThatVoice: Voight Kampff is voiced by RutgerHauer, of BladeRunner fame.
* [=TropeTitle=]: Any tropes in which the show is already cited can be retrieved from the Wiki if you text-search in a separate window on the program name.

"Lost in the New Real" concerns a 21st century man known as Mr. L, who is awoken from cryogenic sleep several hundred years in the future. He is welcomed by Voight Kampff, his "hard-headed shrink" who has been assigned to help Mr. L adjust to the strange world he now belongs to.

* [=TropeTitle=]: List of tropes that are fixtures of the series.