This week started with bad news for all of the followers of Daft Punk, and is that The French duo announced their divorce after a career spanning 28 years.
The news shook the social network Twitter and the names of the musicians immediately became a trend, generating an average of 32 tweets per second, according to the Visibrain cabinet.
Users shared memes of surprise and much grief over the divorce.
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The group, consisting of Thomas Bangalter, 46, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 47, published a video on YouTube entitled “Epilogue”, featuring scenes from his movie “Electroma” in which both are walking through the desert wearing their usual helmets.
At the end, one of them fires a detonator at the back of the other, which finally bursts into the air after a 60-second countdown. The photo says “1993-2021”.
In this way, and without notice, one of the most important electronic music groups and symbol of the “French Touch” ended their successful collaboration, which was rewarded with six Grammy Awards.
However, it had been 14 years since the Parisian duo gave concerts, limiting their few performances to television ceremonies, such as the Grammy gala.
“Stupid punk”
Daft Punk, whose members met in high school, released their first album “Homework” in 1997, heavily inspired by “house” and techno music.
From the beginning it conquered the dance floors with songs like “Around the world” and “Da Funk”.
The French group’s name takes on the phrase that an influential English music weekly had used to criticize their previous band Darlin’s lead single: “silly punk”.
In 2001 the French duo released “Discovery”, an even more popular album of songs like “One more time” and “Harder, better, faster, stronger”, reused disco and pop music from the 1980s.
Four years later, they would disappoint their audience with another bleak album, “Human After All” (Humans after all).
However, vshe smelled so louder that their biggest hit was the “single” “Get lucky”, from 2013, co-starred with Pharrell Williams and sold millions of copies worldwide.
The subject was included in their fourth and final album, Random Access Memories, for which Daft Punk broke with his French record company and signed a contract with the American Columbia (Sony).
Feed the mystery
His robotic 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 the curiosity of his fans alive, always looking for an image on internet that will reveal their faces.
In a documentary broadcast by the British BBC network in 2015, Bangalter stated: “We have a daily life that is much more normal (…) than the lives of artists who enjoy the same popularity, but who should place more importance on physicality. be recognized. “
“For us it is more important to think that we have participated in the evolution of the music world” than to limit ourselves to “musicians who mechanically link albums and tours,” Bangalter also 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 limited themselves to a collaboration with the Canadian The Weeknd for the songs “Starboy” and “I Feel It Coming”., before producing the song “Overnight” by the Australian group Parcels.
In total Daft Punk sold 12 million copies worldwide.
with information from AFP
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