'Meet Me in the Bathroom' revisits the moment when the Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and their insane NYC peers made rock dangerous again. Rob Sheffield and Lizzy Goodman on how the doc recaptures the moment—and why it's more vital than ever.
It’s a story that Goodman has been telling since she started writing her book back in 2011, when everybody figured this moment was a thing of the past. Most of the bands had broken up.
New York was a magnet for these kids. They all showed up expecting to find one great big Lou Reed song, but they found they had to make their own fun in a city with no use for them. “Even before 9/11 happened, there was the dot-com crash in early 2001,” Goodman says. “So people felt even more of a reason to get away with their own kind of undercover dingy joy. There’s this period of time where all this shit is going on. An election is stolen. There’s a war starting.
That was the point, really. They gave it a bash anyway, and within a couple hours, they’d whipped up their name, their logo, and their first song,a punk sex anthem with Karen wailing the hook, “As a fuck, son, you suck!” But for some reason, whenever the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played that song loud, with noise drummer Brian Chase banging away, in a sleazy, sweaty room, something very weird happened — something you never saw in rock bars anywhere at the time, but especially not in New York.
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