One of three tracks originally included on The Modern Age EP that prompted a record label bidding war and would later appear on their debut album Is This It. “Barely Legal” is about a girl who’s just turned 18 and is extremely naive in everything she does. The narrator is talking about her and how he doesn’t see anything in her but is obsessed with her still for some reason. Interestingly enough, Julian’s father John Casablancas infamously had an affair with a 16 year old model when he was 41.

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