Is it me, or do The Strokes just not age?
If we don’t watch the sun
It will rise
If we don’t take our time
It’s not wise
— Welcome to Japan
You know the answer that you’re looking for
— The Strokes All the Time
Alexa Chung on The Strokes
There’s the Strokes, for instance, which is the “oh my God, mind-blowing” band that a 17-year-old Chung went to see at the Reading Festival, where the previous year she had been approached by a modeling agent, who plucked her out of sleepy, tweedy Privett, a small village southwest of London, and launched her career. (“It was a big weekend.”)
