Julian Casablancas

They told me the whole scene that they wanted, the whole story, and they had like this kind of picture of this like summer crush.

I was kind of based on their story.

I was like, you sure you don't want to call it summer crush?

Because it's like meeting a girl when you're like a kid in some place, but you're like kind of with your parents and some magic happens and it's like, but you kind of never see her again.

And it was just like some moment in time that you'll never forget or something.

Anyway, they were describing it better and more French, more, I don't know, nostalgic, romantic or whatever.

And so then I just, we did the opposite and we just basically, I sang a bunch, I just made stuff up and then whatever just sounded good kind of became lyrics and that actually weirdly gave that feeling more than the ones that were like specifically like

I saw you on that beach that one summer day, or whatever it was.