3 “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk
OK now if you read this blog or know me personally it should
come as an absolute no brainer that this song was going to make this list let
alone the top 3 but if you’re curious as to just how a band that I’m so
incredibly high up on could only manage to land at number 3 I’ll explain that
to you shortly but before then I’m going to take the time to yet again type out
just how awesomely amazing this funky little jam is.
OK after almost 10 years DAFT PUNK ARE BACK BABY!!!!!! And
the resulting album’s worth of material is the most spectacular thing to of
been done in quite some time, because these have managed to make that
transition they started with their albums, what Homework was the future and now
modern day direction of music to come each album following was a slow decline
into what shaped it all with Discovery being just that for me and this
wonderful collection of larger then life joyful pop songs that where the shape
of how electronic music was starting to find a voice and Human after all being
the beginning of it all, the starting of a genre it leaves you to wonder just
where these guys’ could possibly go.
Well they decided to go back in this kind of funk fueled
rocket to the moon where they channeled their inner La Chic and P-Funk and
George Funk in making the most disco-influenced organic collection of songs
that are all about getting the groove of the music just losing yourself to
dance and the rhythm of the beat and this song’s the exact personification of
Random Access Memories, it’s this funk fueled throwback that’s the perfect
Disco song. It’s a danceable jam just begging to be danced to, and with Pharell
Williams it’s a change of pace because rather than hearing the familiar hypnotically
robotic vocals you’d expect to hear from a Daft Punk record instead where
getting actual singing something that hasn’t been heard since Face to Face and
it’s amazing.
So to look back and realize that this was that massive hit
this band so honestly deserved and that you just could not escape it was just
AMAZING it was the most vindicating feeling to know that everyone was finally
giving the most influential group of musicians their praise was fucking
wonderful, but of course aside from an overload of hearing this jam there was
one glaring problem I have with it and Random Access Memories as an album that
I can’t help but point out that is the exact reason why what’s probably the
most explained song on this list is only at number 3 and it’s that this just
doesn’t feel like a Daft Punk song.
Now I guess that statement has you scratching your head a
bit so let me kind of shed some light on that, you see this is in fact a Guy
Manuel and Christopher Bangalter composition there’s no denying that it’s just
that this song and album is more hey let’s collaborate with a bunch of really
talented folks that more often than not end up making the songs feel like their
tunes just with Daft Punk composing them and it’s something that’s always
bothered me rather lightly to be honest but when I heard Pentatonixs do their
little melody and it got to the get lucky parts it just stood out like a sore
thumb just how little it really meshes with everything they did before it and
it really does pain me to not really feel like this isn’t really a Daft Punk
song but sadly that’s just kind of how it feels to me and while this honestly
is just an amazing piece of work that deserved every bit of success it had it’s
just not a Daft Punk song.
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