@_promiseland_ ‘Personal Reflektor’ music vide. Enter the Voidz: (from left) Jeramy Gritter, Jeff Kite (in back), Alex Carapetis, Casablancas, Amir Yaghmai, and Jake Bercovici, The record’s called Tyranny, and that’s sort of what it’s about, Casablancas says: rapacious oil companies and a not-so-free press and environmental depredation. It could have been the civil-rights struggle. Welcome back, Julian. Instagram post 17851057966851587. We’ve been here for eighteen minutes. ", In the same article, Julian himself appears, not yet born. It’s never cool. I try to make an effort outside of work to contribute to what I believe in but I’m not the guy who should be talking about politics as part of my job.“Shut up and dribble?”. All rights reserved. Neither is quality. I’ve heard people say that [Maher] is a racist, and that’s a whole other argument. I’ll ask a more straightforward question … I just thought of something. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. I saw that the website for your record label has a politics section full of links to news stories from places like Truthdig and Alternet.Yeah, step one is being informed. The struggle could have been against England way back in the day. Generally speaking, what moral obligation do artists have to address politics if they believe the country’s politics are fucked-up?I don’t think people have that responsibility. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Okay, after Trump was elected. Maybe that’s something different? the Early-Aughts New York Rock Boom — Went Bust. I just wanted to musically progress in certain ways. That was obviously a songwriting direction you wanted to continue going in, but were there things you wanted to do differently this time around?I don’t know if this answers the question, but the easiest way to summarize it is that we wanted people to like Virtue as much as we liked Tyranny. Is the state of popular music worse than it’s been in the past?Definitely. There are certainly things that I disagree with Bill Maher about, but I think overall he means well. He says that being what NME once called, in its usual understated way, "the most exciting young rock group on Earth" wasn’t fun then, and living down the legacy of that has been even worse, mentally and physically, for everyone involved. The mystery to me is that the business world somehow is allowed to be a lawless place where decisions are made that destroy people’s lives, but if you did those things person-to-person you’d be put in jail. I don’t know — I did wind up thinking that my job was pretty frivolous.But you have a platform. In the same song you say, We could drag it out / but that’s for other bands to do. If you could time travel 30 years into the future, tell me who is going to be more popular: Ed Sheeran or Ariel Pink? Maybe this isn’t the right place. I like that. I assume when you used to write a song for the Strokes you would sit down with a guitar or a keyboard. "He was a very charming, funny guy, so I’m sure he said it as a joke if he did say it. Or Jimi Hendrix: People don’t realize that it took years for him to get the acclaim that he has now. What about the readers who will see this and think, Why do I care what a rock star thinks about politics?I can see the comments now. He appears to have slightly more hair on the right side of his head than the left—it’s patchy and long and angelic in that familiar tattered way that is becoming increasingly spooky as he ages. It is a not particularly well-kept secret that Casablancas wrote the first two Strokes records more or less by himself. I wouldn’t say so. Today someone like Ariel Pink is relatively unknown. Maybe the best way to explain it was that they very briefly made a bunch of rock ’n’ roll qualities that seemed gone from this earth—aggressively melodic, drunken, deadpan, dangerously blunt qualities—feel possible again.
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