Going Shopping
Song by The Strokes
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Oct 22, 2026
Christopher ScaliaHOST
I'm your host, Christopher Scalia of the American Enterprise Institute.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
25 years ago marked the release of one of the most eagerly anticipated and widely hyped debut albums of my lifetime.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
The Strokes record, Is This It?, was supposed to clear out the clutter of overproduced corporate rock and bubblegum pop and return us to a no-frills, guitar-driven sound, a kind of rock that was aware of its past but not merely imitative of it.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
And...
34 MINS LATER
Christopher ScaliaHOST
It? Not the one that came out in America.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
I'm speaking to Steven Hyden, author of Is This It? The Never-Ending Rise and Fall of the Strokes and Rock and Roll.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
All right, so the album is still considered one of the great rock albums.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
It's one of the few rock albums on lists of great albums of the century, but it didn't chart.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
called Reality Awaits.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
And I think the first single of that album, Going Shopping, is brilliant.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
But even that song is marked by, some might say tainted, by autotune.
Christopher ScaliaHOST
And there's a lot of autotune on that album.
Julian CasablancasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Don't wanna wake up poor.
Julian CasablancasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I can't wait, I'm going shopping.
Julian CasablancasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm at the mall and the song is bumping.
Julian CasablancasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I wanna be a seven-foot starfish.
Julian CasablancasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Above the law, a political puppet.
SteveHOST
From the 2026 album Reality Awaits, that was The Strokes with Going Shopping.
SteveHOST
Um, there will be other people who like that song, uh, Bobby, um, because I have quite a big crossover with the Sombrero Fallout, uh, podcast, which I'm sure you've heard me mention before on here.
Bobby TownsonGUEST
Yeah.
Rachel PollioHOST
Fifth listen, shit, they're cooking here.
Rachel PollioHOST
Goodness, Going Shopping is my least favorite song on the album.
Rachel PollioHOST
10th listen, I can't stop listening.
Rachel PollioHOST
Auto-Tune is fine.
6 MINS LATER
DLHOST
I'll say that.
Rachel PollioHOST
Not at all, but very well done.
Rachel PollioHOST
Uh, best song, Going Shopping.
Rachel PollioHOST
Loved that.
Madeleine BrandHOST
It's called Reality Awaits, produced by Rick Rubin.
Madeleine BrandHOST
And here's the album's lead single, Going Shopping.
Julian CasablancasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, it's reality gets the less you want to hear about it.
Julian CasablancasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Solidarity can be difficult when you've got cool stuff to lose.
Julian CasablancasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
they, in a way, are like the laboratory where he works out a lot of his experiments, and then he filters it back to the strokes in a more...
Stephen HydenGUEST
I would say straightforward or relatively straightforward way.
Stephen HydenGUEST
So after listening to some of these crazy Boyd's records, a song like Going Shopping didn't seem at all unusual to me.
Stephen HydenGUEST
And then you go online and you see people that maybe haven't listened to the Strokes for a while.