The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas Set For Converse Track
May 21st, 2008
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas is among the artists who are taking part in a special birthday track to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Converse shoe. The track, which will be made available as a free download on the shoe’s site, will also include Santogold and Pharrell Williams, who is producing the track. Speaking about the track Santi White (aka Santogold) told Gigwise that “everybody on it does their own separate thing and we didn’t do it together so it ends up being just this weird long song with sort of everybody with lots of their own personalities separate.” Is is reported that all three, including Pharrell, take turns singing verses on the track.
A review of the special track is up on Pitchfork with an excerpt below.
The Strokes
It sounds like a less shiny, more downtown version of the Timbaland/Justin Timberlake/Nelly Furtado jam “Give It to Me”, complete with silly disses of unidentified targets (”I find your approach so adolescent / I may look young, but your game is pre-pubescent,” Santogold sings.) Pharrell makes the unfortunate decision to try to sing (that has never worked out well in the past), crooning come-ons like “now thank you for coming to my drive-thru.” As usual, Julian sounds like he just woke up, making the line “if you wanna be like us you better work every night” kind of comical. There’s also a part near the end where everybody sings about how they “just wanna dance.”
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