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"Last Nite" is arguably The Strokes' biggest hit (and one of their most-performed songs), but unfortunately the person who wrote it can't stand it anymore. During a new interview with The Guardian, Julian Casablancas proclaimed that the song is "pretty dead to me."
When asked if there was a song he could no longer listen to, the frontman didn't hold back. “‘Last Nite’ by The Strokes is pretty dead to me. I’m not sure why," he admitted. “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. If I heard ['Last Nite'] on the radio, I’d probably turn it off.”
This isn't the first time Casablancas has shared his disdain of the Is The It hit. Back in 2020, he told The Times he was "sick" of playing the band's older material.
“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," he divulged at the time. “I couldn’t care less about playing ‘Last Nite.’”
The Strokes' last album was 2020's The New Abnormal.