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Well, I guess we still have M83 and Carpenter Brut to supply French synth awesomeness, but I'll really miss Daft Punk.
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I think a lot of people were expecting more of the electro that they pioneered and got turned off by the heavy disco influence.
Electro / disco is not the right dichotomy, as their music has always sat at an intersection between genres. Homework, Discovery, and Human After All are all heavily sample-based, and there are like 1 or 2 samples on all of Random Access Memories. That is the big difference.
Instead of sampling from the 70s, they used artists that created music during the 70s.
Part of me is always quite envious of people who cleanly close one chapter of their life and move on to the next.
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Not everyone who wears mask ends up sticking with the anonymity though, I can imagine the pull of fame can be irresistible for some. Deadmau5 for example. Others have managed staying hidden just by not appearing anywhere, like Burial.
Pretty sure burial once tweeted a selfie to say he was taking a break from music to play diablo or something
So what does it mean for such a meta-band to “break up” when they only existed during concerts and on records. Does that mean the people behind it won’t make more music? I sure hope not!
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Pretty sure burial once tweeted a selfie to say he was taking a break from music to play diablo or something
Best way to announce a tour break ever.
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Sometimes the greatest thing for many people is the ability to choose fortune over fame.
It's the fallacy of the C-list celebrity to realize too late that fame does not easily convert to fortune.
I always thought Daft Punk figured out the perfect solution to the how to be famous problem. Everyone recognizes their artist name and their artist costume, but virtually no one knows their real name or would accost them on the street.
I saw Don Schlitz[0] perform "The Gambler" at The Grand Ole Opry[1] last year (juuust before Covid). He said something like "Yeah, Kenny Rogers did well with this song, but I can still go to the grocery store without being recognized, and I still get paid when they play it" (or something to that effect). Funny guy, and a great singer too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Schlitz [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
During my college years, one of my dorm mate’s dads was a famous Hollywood producer. He once said to me, “You want everyone to know your name and no one to know your face.”
Taking it a step further, we could quote Bill Murray:
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first.’ See if that doesn’t cover most of it.