Julian Casablancas: “‘Last Nite’ by The Strokes is “pretty dead to me”

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The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has said that the band’s classic hit single ‘Last Nite’ is “pretty dead to me”.Casablancas has often expressed his dismay at performing the band’s more popular, older songs in the past, admitting that he became “sick” of playing old hits live, saying “the music doesn’t move you” when playing the same tracks repeatedly in 2020.He added at the time: “When you’re growing up and imagining playing music, it is for the excitement, but the one aspect of doing it for a living that is a sadness you don’t anticipate is that you play songs so much, you become sick of them.“We hadn’t played for a while.

So it was still fun, but when you start playing 30 or 40 shows, the music doesn’t move you. You feel phoney. To some extent, that’s why I play with [side project] The Voidz.

I couldn’t care less about playing ‘Last Nite.’”Now he has reiterated his disdain for ‘Last Nite’ again in a new interview with The Guardian.When asked what song he can no longer listen to, Casablancas replied: “‘Last Nite’ by The Strokes is pretty dead to me.

I’m not sure why.“There are some others like ‘Reptilia’, ‘Hard To Explain’, ‘Someday’, ‘Take It Or Leave It’, ‘New York City Cops’ that are comparable in terms of crowd reaction that I’m not quite as sick of.