The album thematically focused on their childhoods, seen in songs like “Teachers,” whose lyrics list their early musical influences. After the massive success of Homework, Daft Punk started working on their second album, Discovery, which dropped in 2001, almost four years after Homework. In many interviews, the duo explains how there’s no formula to their music and how, because of that, they don’t rush their creative process. Known for their idiosyncratic approach to music, Daft Punk reinvented the electronic, disco, and French house genres. After coming across “One More Time,” I made the connection to hearing them a few years before.
Later that night I looked up some of the lyrics (the lines I had remembered) on my iPhone 5, and started listening to some of the group’s other songs. Although I greatly despised running laps, I enjoyed the music. I think my gym teachers played “Get Lucky” during one of our warm-ups in class. I, Sarah, was reminded of Daft Punk’s existence during middle school when they released their 2013 album Random Access Memories. Their unique style of music, incorporating aspects from disco, techno, funk, and house, has earned them a total of 13 awards and 43 nominations, including two Billboard Music Awards and six Grammy Awards. Both “Around the World” and “Da Funk” earned Grammy nominations and established the band’s music.Īfter rocketing into the limelight around the world, Daft Punk began limiting their media presence, donning the robotic helmets and outfits that they are so well known for today. This song was featured in their first full-length album, Homework, along with another single titled “Around the World,” which was one of the most popular songs on the album. But this also made me ask the question: Why would they break up? And why now? I was confused as to why they hadn’t released a statement about their breakup, but I figured that they just weren’t ready to talk about it publicly.Īs a duo, Daft Punk released their first single “The New Wave” on April 11, 1994, but they gained almost overnight success from their single “Da Funk” released in 1995. This was touching to learn: two people that had been friends and made music together for 28 years. One of their bandmates, Laurent Brancowitz, continued with music and joined the band Phoenix.Īlthough I, Sabrina, was aware that Daft Punk had formed a while ago, I didn’t know that they had met up in school. This was due to the pair branching out into more electronic and French house music. During that time, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo wrote four songs, eventually breaking off from the rest of the group. Although I didn’t know much about Daft Punk when I first started writing, it was really interesting to discover the parallels between my friendship with Sarah and the relationship between the musical duo.īangalter and de Homem-Christo are friends who initially met in 1987 at the Lycée Carnot secondary school in Paris, where they started a rock band called Darlin with some other students in 1992. We have become fast friends since we first met through co-writing an article for the Argus. On a similar note, I, Sabrina, was really excited to collaborate on this article with Sarah. I retreated to my room to play my own, more tasteful music: the soundtrack to “High School Musical 2.” At the time I remember thinking that it sounded like elevator music and could not comprehend why anyone would listen to such an odd sequence of beeping and booping.
Sitting at my dining room table, I could hear my brother blasting “One More Time” while he was working on college application essays. I, Sarah, first heard Daft Punk when I was in elementary school. The rest of the video shows de Homem-Christo walking off into a sunset as the song “Touch” plays. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, recognizable by his golden helmet, starts a timer on the back of Thomas Bangalter, his silver-helmeted bandmate, and walks away. To announce the end of their career, the duo released an eight-minute video on their YouTube channel entitled “Epilogue.” The video begins with a scene from their 2006 film “Electroma,” in which both members of the band are seen walking through a desert. Fans of Daft Punk are all wishing they could hear the band perform “One More Time.” After 28 years of creating music together, the iconic helmet-wearing French electronic music duo revealed that they were splitting up on Feb.
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