Songfacts®:

• This song is about the childhood realization that as you get older, you and your friends are likely to drift apart. >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Bertrand - Paris, France
• In the US, this peaked at #17 on the Alternative Songs chart.
• In the music video, directed by Roman Coppola, The Strokes compete against Ohio indie rockers Guided By Voices on the game show Family Feud, with then-host Richard Karn presiding. Guns N' Roses members Slash, Matt Sorum, and Duff McKagan are also shown hanging out with the band in a bar.
• This was used in the movies Click (2006), starring Adam Sandler, and Delivery Man (2013), starring Vince Vaughn. It was also featured in the TV series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in the 2018 episode "Someday."
• Chris Laufman, a Pittsburgh pop artist who records under the name Wise Blood, recorded this for the multi-artist tribute album Stereogum Presents... Stroked: A Tribute To Is This It. Laufman said of his contribution: "I was psyched and terrified to get 'Someday.' I decided to try and stick with the way the song develops, which I think is four parts that progress, fall apart, then start over again. Everything else I sort of switched up, and I tailored the lyrics a tiny bit to better suit me."
• Fabrizio Moretti, the band's drummer, was nursing a hangover when he first heard lead singer Julian Casablancas toying with a new melody that became the basis for "Someday." He recalled to NME: "I was staying over at Julian's house one night after a night of debauchery… I had a crazy headache when I woke up. But I woke up to him singing in the bathroom and coming up with, kind of developing the melody for it, and I always thought that was really awesome. It's a very pretty melody."