take it or leave it

Let's face it, when The Strokes came around to save us from the shit we were listening to when the world didn't end in 2000, we all felt a lot cooler. It was a dark, dark age when they arrived : Linkin Park had just landed, At The Drive-In and the Spice Girls had disbanded, girls were wearing baby-Ts which exposed an inch of bellyflab. Everything was going wrong. How did they get so cool?

Whilst the girls replaced glossy posters of Boyd with Casablancas/Moretti/Valensi, boys pretended they weren't rocking out to Fat Lip just days before they saw Last Night on MTV and swore they'd always loved rock and roll. Some even started wearing blazers.

Sadly and inevitably, love turned to (mostly forced,fake) hate. I guess things really turned sour when the kids that were wearing eminem t shirts traded them in for The Strokes t shrits(happened again after Transformers) but still wore them with their Fubu baggy jeans. We couldn't say out loud that we liked The Strokes anymore and it wasn't because they sucked, it's just that they were too famous (which translates to cheesy, uncool, bad). We're just fucked up like that. We're such jealous lovers with bands sometimes, once too many people have gotten all cozy with them, we get pissed off and disown them like two dollar whores...whilst secretly still being in love with them.

I'm coming out of the closet : I think The Strokes are legendary, and have never been disappointed by any of their albums. I love them! Here's the issue- three albums and a lot of fuss later, Julian Casablancas has decided to embark on a solo career. He's releasing his first solo album 'in the fall'. I spent several years of my life hoping I would marry him, and still have a lot of faith left, not so much in being a Casablancas but in him, as a musician. Although its produced by Jason Leder, I'm a pessimist and am still nervous that he's going to fuck us over with 8 tracks that Vampire Weekend could have come up with. Well, if Phrazes for the Young is a total disaster, we still have The Strokes' fourth coming album to anticipate.


We'll just have to wait and see, I guess. But for now, here's what he's got to say :

(I honestly got too distracted by his face to listen to what he was saying most of the time. Pretty.)





WAIT. PAUSE AT 1:03. What's that? Fuck yeah, not Supras.