![]() Isn't the new strokes song kind of - umm - Dancing With Myself? #The strokes bad decisions how to#Not trying to shit on bad decisions bc I love it but it sounds like New Order doing a cover of dancing with myself and I don't know how to reconcile thatīad decisions sounds kinda like dancing with myself but im not mad about itīig "Dancing with Myself" vibes, I dig it. ![]() This is basically a "Dancing With Myself" sendup but it's also easily the most "classic era" sounding Strokes song they've put out since the classic era. Nice The Strokes have stolen Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol The Strokes' new album, The New Abnormal, arrives April 10 via Cult/ RCA Records. ![]() See some of the realizations and reactions below, then listen to both songs and hear the likeness for yourself. ![]() That didn't mean Twitter let the Strokes off the hook. So similar, in fact, that the band have recognized Billy Idol and co-writer Tony James with a songwriting credit. It's pretty undeniably similar when the Strokes' gets to the chorus, repeating "Oh, makin' bad decisions" to almost the exact same tune as the hook in the 1981 hit "Dancing with Myself." Check it out below.Published The Strokes unveiled their latest single "Bad Decisions" yesterday (February 18), and while many praised it for the band's return to their classic sound, many others noted that it sounded familiar in a different way - in the way that it sounds like Billy Idol's "Dancing with Myself." If “Bad Decisions” and its video are some kind of Jules piss-take on what people stereotypically want out of the Strokes, it’s still a damn good version of what people stereotypically want out of the Strokes. But then “Bad Decisions” kind of delivers on that, too. Given Casablancas’ more untethered endeavors with the Voidz, you could take it as a sort of meta-commentary on people always expecting a specific thing from this band. It’s a sort of spoof of retro infomercials, with the premise being you could buy a clone of the Strokes, particularly some uncanny echoes of the band in their earlier days. The song comes with a video directed by Andrew Donoho. (Though it’s Billy Idol who gets a co-writing credit, presumably for the similarity to the melody in “Dancing With Myself.”) (This was the same show at which the band unveiled their cover of Talking Heads’ “Burning Down The House” and where Casablancas sang “New York City Cops” into an actual cop’s face.) In many ways, “Bad Decisions” feels like a classic Strokes song - especially in the chorus melody - with a bit more New Order injected into the lead guitar riff. Some fans might already have come across “Bad Decisions” - the Strokes debuted it onstage last week, when they played a set at Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire rally ahead of the primary. ![]() Taking to socials earlier today, the band announced that after all this time waiting, we’d get two new Strokes songs in quick succession, with another single called “Bad Decisions” arriving just a week after “At The Door.” And in every way the last one was pretty and enigmatic, this is just a straight-up Strokes banger. Well, it turns out that the Strokes had a nice one-two up their sleeve: Start with the weird new introduction, chase it with something a bit more quintessentially Strokes-esque. (We liked it, though, ranking it as our favorite song last week.) Either way, it was a bold call, kicking off the rollout for the first new Strokes album in seven years with something enticing and elusive more so than something immediate and triumphant. All moody and atmospheric, with no percussion and little guitar, many heard “At The Door” as more reminiscent of Julian Casablancas’ solo work than the Strokes. The announcement was accompanied by a new track called “ At The Door.” While it wasn’t the first preview we heard of The New Abnormal - the band had already debuted a handful of new songs live - it was certainly a striking statement of a lead single. Last week, the Strokes finally announced their long-awaited, long-teased new album The New Abnormal, their first since 2013’s Comedown Machine. ![]()
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