This week kicked off with bad news for all fans of Daft Punk, And is that the French duo announced their separation after a 28-year career.
The news made the social network Twitter vibrate, and the name of the musicians immediately became a trend with the generation of an average of 32 tweets per second, according to the Visibrain cabinet.
Users share surprise memes and lots of sadness over the separation.
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The group, made up of Thomas Bangalter, 46, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 47, posted a video on Youtube titled “Epilogue”, with scenes from his movie “Electroma” and in which they both walk through the desert with their usual helmets.
In the end, one of them triggers a detonator on the back of the other, which after a countdown of 60 seconds, ends up jumping through the air. In the image, it reads “1993-2021”.
In this way and without warning, one of the most important groups of electronic music and symbol of the “French Touch” ended their successful collaboration, rewarded with six Grammy Awards.
However, the Parisian duo had not given concerts for 14 years, limiting their few performances to ceremonies on television, such as the Grammy gala.
“Punk silly”
Daft Punk, the members met in high school, released in 1997 their first album “Homework”, very much inspired by “house” and techno music.
From its beginnings it conquered the dance floors with subjects like “Around the world” and “It gives Funk”.
The French group’s name echoes the expression used by an influential English music weekly to criticize their previous single Darlin ‘first single: “silly punk”.
In 2001, the French duo released “Discovery”, an even more popular album featuring songs such as “One more time” and “Harder, better, faster, Stronger”, which recycled the disco and pop music of the decade. of 1980.
Four years later, they would disappoint their audience with another darker album, “Human After All.”
However, vthey forgot more strongly to the point that their biggest hit was the “single” “Get lucky”, of 2013, performed alongside Pharrell Williams and of which millions of copies were sold worldwide.
The track was included on his fourth and final album, “Random access memories”, For which Daft Punk broke with his French record label and signed a contract with American Columbia (Sony).
Feed the mystery
His robot helmets, which first appeared in the “Around the World” video, fueled his mysterious aura, a way to protect himself from his own popularity while keeping his fans’ curiosity alive. , always on the lookout to find on the internet some image that would reveal their faces.
In a documentary broadcast by the British channel BBC in 2015, Bangalter stated: “We have a day to day that is much more normal (…) than the lives of artists who enjoy the same popularity, but who have to give more important to be physically recognized “.
“For us, it’s more important to think that we’ve been involved in the evolution of the music world” than to limit ourselves to being “musicians who mechanically chain albums and tours,” Bangalter further said in the film “Electroma, 30 years of French electronic music “, also called” French touch “, according to the term popularized by the Anglo-Saxon press.
In recent years, the Parisian duo had limited themselves to collaborating with Canadian The Weeknd for the songs “Starboy” and “I Feel It Coming”, Before producing the song “Overnight” by the Australian group Plots.
Overall, Daft Punk’s worldwide sales amount to 12 million copies.
with information from AFP
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