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hi everyone did you know that um. 😊when julian went over to albert's house in 2013 to listen to st justice he asked if it was about him. 😊 yes the song that is a love song to albert's then-girlfriend justyna. haha. just letting you know 😊

albert hammond jr for the talk, 2013 (x)

#bands #the strokes #julian casablancas #albert hammond jr #ahj era #cm era #casamond #the talk #im chewing my fucking mnuckles #me when i think my best friend's weirdly depressing love song to his wife is about me #i say weirdly depressing because while im sure theres a more metaphorical slant to the lyrics that makes them sweeter #'forget me / i'll forget you' is an insane thing to say in a song to your newly married wife #anyway. 😍👍#the rest of the interview is really good i recommend reading it he talks a lot about his drug use and self destructive impulses #hes so real for that i fear #and i know the lyrics are vague enough to allow for wiggle room they dont instantly ping as an overt sappy love song but like.#if your boy best friend thinks ur love song is about him then there's . Something's happened along the way. yknow.#edit i just realised that they werent married when he wrote the song but still

if i told you that i had two characters who'd written a song about a secretive doomed relationship together and released a poster for it featuring the two of them holding hands as they drove off a cliff together you'd probably tell me to stop being so on the nose but no. it's real and it's called one way trigger by the strokes

#sophaerosxml #the strokes #julian casablancas #albert hammond jr #cm era #casamond #whatever guys we can't decide on a ship name and i need to post about them Now this poster makes me INSANE #i need everyone to look at it like why the fuck #bands #god can we also talk about how the circle for the hands is in yellow to really contrast it against the bg and the other two circles w their #faces. highlighting its importance.#and also making it more compositionally balanced lol #and the way u can see their teeny tiny heads in the car but their hands are truly hidden so we would never see it without the circle #this poster makes me sickkk #oh and it's also a screenshot from thelma and louise aka the one where two women kiss and hold hands before driving off a cliff together.#WHATEVER.

amandadecadenet: Special Friends Day - Uncle Fabbie and Nick -#brothers 27 november 2013

#bands #the strokes #nick valensi #fab moretti #amanda de cadenet #polystrokes #fabnick #alfabnick #cm era #uncle fabbie nick and bertie. tasting blood in my mouth rn #instagram

one way trigger being the strokes' specialest little song:

only poster released for comedown machine (and therefore one of the few official pieces of promo it had)

only poster to feature their faces on it

only poster that's not simply illustrating an image from the song

only strokes song albert has performed solo

only song to get a mellow version

first of two singles for comedown machine

bonus fun facts:

written first by albert then refined with julian (the other songs solely by the two of them being elephant song and automatic stop) (according to this reddit comment that i need to source julian had this to say about writing it: "There was a song and the second song ate the first song, and then we threw one of the songs away.")

first song albert wrote after getting out of rehab, one year into sobriety

the poster features a direct screenshot of the ending of thelma & louise (1991) (the two female leads kiss and hold hands before driving off a cliff so they can be free in death instead of living the rest of their lives in prison), with julian as louise and albert as thelma

the song was recorded whilst julian was..no i shan't say......

#bands #the strokes #julian casablancas #albert hammond jr #casamond #cm era #one way trigger #sorry if i've made this post before i know i had a draft for it but god knows where it is #that julian quote is so interesting is that why the lyrics kind of read like it contains two perspectives #where did he say that..#the strokes trivia #my comps

they really said comphet

#bands #the strokes #cm era #comphet #im serious about this one tbfh #find a dream shut it down...diabolical #and on a song about a secret lover neither of you can bring yourself to stay with? lmfao #casamond

The more I listen to one way trigger the more I realize that Albert being the one to write it is genuinely fucking diabolical what if I threw a rock at him like it actually hurts my head that shit is EVIL

RIGHT????? every day i wonder how the fuck julian sings it without puking blood on the spot

#ask #anon #the strokes #albert hammond jr #cm era #i really want to know who wrote the very last stanza bc it doesnt Seem to fit within the perspective of the rest of the song #the whole song is from the pov of the uncommitted person and the last stanza has rhe vibes of the committed person getting fed up #but idk

i just realised how excruciating it would be to cowrite and perform a song your ex wrote about how he can't or won't stay with you and how your love is doomed to secrecy and separation. the more i think about one way trigger the more it seems utterly deranged