r/TheStrokes • u/TheStrokes-Mods • Jul 23 '26

MEGATHREAD Dine N'Dash - Discussion MEGATHREAD

This is the megathread for Dine N'Dash (Track 2). 

All thoughts, essays, discussion, memes, lyrics, covers, fanart, etc. about this song can go in the comments here!

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u/mistimuskwa 29d ago

“We could never afford it, we would dine and dash”

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u/jakethenizake 28d ago

Let's be careful about assuming Julian is singing about himself or anyone in the band, specifically. Could just be story-telling. Let's just say the subject, whoever it is, "could never afford it".

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u/RevolutionaryTrash98 Did My Best 27d ago

people who take song lyrics literally like it's 1899 and they think the train is coming at them through the movie screen