Daft Punk, two euthanized robots

Human contact will be restored on February 22, 2021. To announce this time that Daft Punk is breaking through. Like eight years earlier, at the start of the campaign around Random Access Memory, the fourth studio album by the French musicians, a contribution mobilizes the fan community on the web. Posted to YouTube, it no longer contains an image but a video preceded by a disturbing title: epilogue.

The scene has been seen before since it was created Daft Punk’s Electroma (2006), the duo’s film. In the middle of the Californian desert, the robot with the silver helmet, Thomas Bangalter’s dual android, shrugs off his jacket and then turns his back on his buddy for him to activate a self-destruct mechanism. Countdown. After one minute of real time, the creature explodes. The dramatic effect is enhanced by the music, the song’s final chorus Touchtitle of Random Access Memorya coda that repeats: “When Love Is The Answer/You’re Home” (“If love is the answer/You have arrived”). This hippie mantra commemorates the conclusion of the The end, of the Beatles, a tantric love message published in 1969 before their split. The dates “1993-2021” are then displayed under two metal hands forming a triangle, then the surviving robot with a golden helmet moves into the setting sun like in a Hollywood western. In electromahe set himself on fire.

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Daft Punk’s end was quickly confirmed by their American communications manager, Kathryn Frazier. No explanation is given as to the reasons. The news goes around the world, from London’s BBC to the Colombian daily The Observer. Since the dissolution of British pop group Oasis in 2009, and before that the Beatles themselves divorced, there has not been such a division in the history of popular music.

Daft Punk is considered the most important and influential company of electronic music in the first quarter of the XXI^e Century. Which we have to regret with a dizzying recovery in digital sales and streaming listening. This nostalgic consumption reflex marks the end of an era as the German daily stated The time : “Everyone who felt young today thanks to Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is old now. »

Since then, Random Access Memory becomes the will of Daft Punk. The album that could have followed him was already an object of fantasy. In early 2020, roadmaps of the recording sessions at Henson Studios in Hollywood appeared online. This is a gross fake. The Arlesian is up for any rumours, with no strings attached. “We researched and workedadmits Thomas Bangalter today. Just like filmmakers can work on films and the project doesn’t succeed. Between the release of the last album and the moment we broke up, we worked separately and together, but nothing remained of those working sessions. »

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